YOU'RE. Dude, seriously? Arg. Grammar and spelling mistakes be a pet peeve of mine something fierce.
Anyway skoog is unfortunately correct, political agendas aside... if you looked at the latest stats, we have more Obesity (not just overweight, but unhealthy Very Overweight people) than almost any other country(ies), and our consumerism and consumption is very high as well (look to Wal-Mart, outsourcing, etc. More, cheaper, faster.) You may disagree with the negative tone, but facts are facts and statistics are statistics. We have a lotof fat people in this country, and the 'Age of Entitlement' as some have called it is definitely rearing its head. Kids raising offspring is fairly common, as are blogs/tweets/whatever about how hard life is as a teen -- even though as I’m sure you'd agree, we have it pretty darn good in this country. I am fairly 'Left' politically, but I also can fully recognize that we have many things handed to us in the USA, and despite that fact, it's becoming more and more common for each new generation to be 'Emo' about it and hate the government/life/whatever. I don't know about the Lazy part, but like I said; regarding weight/health and personal feelings of entitlement, the facts don't lie. Does that mean we are a country of useless jerks? No, not really. I think "in general" there's a lot of unfortunately uneducated and ignorant people in this country, as well as a lot of unhealthy and overweight people, and people that value consumption over much else without possibly even realizing it, but that doesn't make it a lost cause. What's the phrase, the sum is more than the parts? Something like that. I disagree politically and socially/sociologically with a lot of things in this country similar to what skoog is saying, but I also KNOW that we have a great free ride -- which many many many of us take for granted, and are thus easily labeled as fat/arrogant/lazy/etc. I think the "truth" is about right in the middle between Patriotism/Nationalism and/or positions such as yours, and disgust/pessimism and/or views such as skoog's. There are a lot of things wrong with this country, and its people, but there are also a lot of awesome things about this country. We need to seriously and collectively put our BS aside and pull our heads out of our arses, and take an objective stock of our beliefs and situation -- politically, culturally, socioeconomically and otherwise.
