up to me.  Your condescension is astounding.  Anyone who complains about being treated like dirt is a crybaby? Well, anyone who criticizes people for seeing through the patriotic curtain, and calls them names, and demands that they suck it up and eat shit for the benefit of the rich...you know what we call those guys?  Assholes. Should people not be mad, fed, up and disillusioned after having the fruits of a lifetime's labor stolen and handed to rich bastards?  According to you they should just shut up, keep their heads down, and realize that that is their lot. Well, fuck that.  And fuck your attitude as well.  Go back to your dirt hovel and your bowl of gruel, and continue to scratch out your living, Eeyore.  The rest of us will continue to aspire to more. I certainly never said anyone should eat shit for the benefit of the rich.   I said battle on rather than engaging in pitiful whining about "losing faith in America."  If "faith in America" meant that you believed that you would be shielded from hardship, you are a fool.   Nothing is more pathetic than the whole "the Man is keeping me down" whine.  Bad things happen.  Go fix things or learn to be stoic in your suffering.  The whining you call being "mad and fed up" is pitiful. Nothing straight shall ever be built from the crooked timber of humanity.  If you have faith in your fellow man, you are bound to be disappointed.  Misplaced