Mr. Emig is right - to a certain extent. We are a lot better off than previous generations. We have more education (even if not relative to the rest of the current world, it is a lot compared to the world of the past), more money (the evil stuff, anyway!), more technology and generally more prosperity. Should we therefore stop learning, stop achieving, stop earning, stop advancing or stop prospering? Of course not.
When Americans like me say that the US is a great nation and that the people are pretty well off, we are right, by any standards. We do not, however, mean that all the people in this nation are rich, nor that they deserve to be, but simply that they CAN be with work. We also are not saying that the rest of the world is prosperous and that they deserve no help from us.
Certainly we can help other nations - by saying, "Here, this is what worked for us, now YOU try it." We can give them democracy and capitalism and liberate the world. There are a lot of people outside our borders that need and deserve our help, but this doesn't mean that we cannot or should not praise the success we've had within our borders.
People starving in the US? I don't think so. Give me one example. There are social(ist) programs in the United States to help the extremely needy (as there should be), but if they won't get the help we're offering what are we supposed to do? Go out in the streets and shove food down their mouths? I'm not about to do that.
As far as people uniting against companies - why? Corporations are just groups of people working together for success (as they define it). What, pray tell, is wrong with uniting for a common goal? Isn't that what all you utopia-pushers like - teamwork?
Mike
the all-knowing
(im sure I'll regret writing that)
