The richest nation on the planet has people living under flyovers relying on soup kitchens. It has millions without health care. It has people living in slums. It has people having to work into their old age in order to survive.
It sees nothing wrong in people becoming multibillionaires and fiddling it so they pay less taxes than a check-out lady.
Somehow it thinks those billionaires got their money honestly and deserve all they get and those dying on the streets chose to live that way.
Many Americans begrudge every cent they pay in taxes to help the unfortunate.
Charity and compassion are forgotten words.
Christian values are things people show lip-service to. They see nothing wrong in carrying a gun and killing, blowing people up in foreign countries, or embezzling money out of the public by tax evasion, but they wouldn’t want to give a helping hand to a Samaritan on the street.
I think America has gotten its values messed up in this endless pursuit of the American Dream. The American Dream has become synonymous with greed, selfishness and avarice.
The American Dream should be about creating a society in which everyone can be happy, not a divisive rat race in which the winner takes all, values are thrown out the window, and the losers are booted down the street into the sewer.