To be completely fair, I think everyone's opinion about the US and the world may be a little biased here. I say that because all of us are able to be sitting here talking on a computer with eachother. Being able to talk over the internet naturally requires a little bit of money, meaning we all are wealthy to some extent. The US, by comparison to countries without these luxury appliances, is incredibly rich. Even by global standards the US is still a wealthy country- just because we are backed in no resources and import all of our goods doesn't mean we don't have wealth. Now I'm no patriot --I think there's a lot of stuff wrong with our government and economy that needs to be sorted out. But that doesn't mean I think that the USA is a bad place. Quite the contrary. After being in southeast asia for 3 months, I can really appreciate the quality of life over here.