[HairOfTheDog]

Go for it if complaining gives you some satisfaction. I don't feel ashamed. God bless the nation where even the spoiled children feel justified in complaining about something. We have it better than any other country in the world.

This country contains my dreams, my family, my friends, and a whole lot of people to admire. Together we can acheive anything we want or nothing at all. It is freedom and opportunity in action. Many of the people who died to create and defend this country never had it as good as I do. I never forget that.

[missileboy]

"Many of the people who died to create and defend this country never had it as good as I do. I never forget that."

I believe you have confused liberty with wealth. And the patriot (and apparently brewer, or is that just a lie perpetrated by the beer company?) Sam Adams distinguished between the two:

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chain be set lightly upon you and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."

You may have it better, but they would not have tolerated what you crouch down to.

I don't complain for satisfaction. I state what I believe to be true. In any case, our standard of living relative to any other country in the world has nothing to do with the state of liberty in the US.