Why Americans Are All Unhappy

Loser.-->
Here in New York we have groups that protest everything. Mostly they protest the government (in general), Israel (G-d forbid they fight back!) , the war (even in times of peace) , capitalism (where?), etc. Some of them have good points (well...not that I've seen but I trust that they exist), but most of them are skinny upper class white kids who have had a Lexus since they were fifteen and need something to complain about and occupy their time. They like to fight "the man," even if the man employs their daddy and pays their college tuition and will one day employ them. And "the man" is also the one that worked so hard to give them the right to sit outside with a sign and complain about anything and everything.

So any person who visited America would probably come to New York and thus see these protesters. Someone who lived in New York would see few days without these protestors. And they'd think "Wow, Americans sure are unhappy!"
Fortunately , they'd be wrong.

I lost my house in Hurricane Katrina and it sucked. When people here about this they say "Wow, you must really hate Bush!" Unlike some of these protestors, Mississippians do not generally think that President Bush was brilliant enough to create a Hurricane powerful enough to destroy a few thousand lives. Only G-d can do that and we don't know why it happened, but it did. The answer is to move on as best as we can, not blame President Bush.

My point with that is not that all Americans are miserable with the way things are going. Sure, we are in a recession. Sure, things aren't perfect. But we still have so many freedoms, so many opportunities.

My family is dirt poor. I mean...really poor. But here I am at school that costs me about $25,000 a year. I didn't get my scholarship because I'm poor or because I'm a minority or because my dad went to school here (my parents didn't go to college, actually). I got this scholarship because I worked really hard in high school. Anyone can do that. Correction. (Warning: inflammatory statement) If someone can't figure out how to get a scholarship, loan, or grant, then they probably don't deserve it and I don't want them operating on me.

We are still one of the richest countries in the world, and we are definitely the freest. In fact we are among only a few countries where if you don't like it here, you can take all your money and leave. Most places won't let you do that.

Our "skyrocketing" unemployment rate is still below that of most Western European countries. It's below most countries that aren't communist, actually, because we don't force people to take jobs that they don't want. Instead they can collect welfare, unemployment, food stamps, medicare/caid, live in subsidized housing..etc. Ew!

My point here is stop whining, people. It doesn't really accomplish anything If all you do is sit around and complain, I would be thrilled if you went through with your threats and moved to Canada. Better yet, move to France...or Cuba!

Yay America.