This is why so many Americans are angry at and frustrated with those with wealth and power

[Dont call me Shirley]

60. I don't just claim my husband works hard, I avow that he works his ass off. Discussing American

Culture in so-called "good faith" IS discussing what I am discussing. You just don't see it.

Most early, and I suppose it is the early puritanical settlers here of which you speak, Europeans who immigrated here had to work extra hard off or they froze to death or starved to death. That's why they boast of it because it was for their sheer survival.

Now we are literally almost forced to work to death. Have you noticed all the very elderly people working at Walmart, Home Depot, the local corporate grocery stores? I have. SS doesn't go a whole month, pensions have been stolen, 401Ks have been cut in half pilfered by the WS vultures, many of us do not even have a retirement account of any kind, are going to be paying off out houses well into our sixties, are looking at looming SS cuts, rising costs...if that is not being worked to death then what is, tree star?

Why average Americans allow this to happen?! Really?! Our American Dream has been stolen from us by conniving billionaires thinking they are entitled to have it all! We have been conned! We did not "allow" this to happen! Stop victim blaming! And REALLY examine American culture as it IS today, not some puritanical residue of yesteryear!