I always feel compelled to tell foreigners that the U.S. is the rihest country in the world simply because we have a really successful business sector. The average person isn't anywhere near rich. The are the same kind of low-to-middle-class hard working slobs as anywhere else. They put in a good days work, worry about bills and their family, etc. Just about everyone I know (including myself) is struggling financially, but they get by.
BTW, crash, old money doesn't have to flash their wealth: they already own everything.
Anyhow, the point is that the average person in America is the same kind of schmuck as anywhere else. It's the media that everyone else is seeing that gives the impression that this is a rich, money-and glitz-filled country with lazy people all running around killing each other. Believe me, it's NOT like that. Well, maybe New York and L.A. (which is what our media shows the most, since of course America only consists of these two areas and nothing else, nosirreebob), but not everywhere else. I made a bunch of comments on this very issue yesterday, but I'm too lazy to link to them right now (ah, lazy American!).
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