welfare." For people to use pursuit of happiness as whatever I want irrespective of who I hurt is, I think, quite contrary to our founding fathers' original intent. But then, abusers do have their ways of abusing everything, don't they? Martin October 25, 2012 -- 1:31 am Barbara, It is so refreshing to hear how America looks from another worldview. I think sometimes Americans (including myself) escalate the country on principle, while at the same time across the world we are often thought (on credible basis) to have too little principle. An evangelist from Brazil came to our church a month ago, looked at our congregation, and said "Do you realize that Brazil looks up to America for what to do?" He continued to elaborate, reminding us how America is the world leading producer of pornography, that abortion is now a normal medical about which the nation has lost conscience, not to mention the endless appetite for illegal narcotics driving an entire world drug network. He said, simply, "would you people just STOP IT!" Over the past five years, I have heard similar remarks from Brits, Europeans, Israelites, Pakistani, Indians, Chinese and Japanese. Regardless of the intent of our founding fathers when they wrote "pursuit of happiness," many people around the world now look at the United States and consider it the model of an extremely sinful, self-destructive but totally self-interested pursuers of happiness. It's very healthy to challenge our own presuppositions. Hopefully, one day this nation might once again