@Rockhead,
hawk doesn't understand much. The facts are that Americans are the hardest working on this planet, and that includes everybody!
Americans do not whine; they want to find work, and many work more than one job to keep up with their cost of living. They are mostly hard working folks who only wish a better life for their children, but find it more difficult as college tuition becomes more expensive, and college grads have difficulty finding jobs.
This is the result of the Great Recession and the housing bust that affected everybody in this world; not just Americans.
Many in Europe are worse off than we are, and even China is finding it difficult to keep workers on the job as their inventory piles up, because world demand has dropped.
Some people have misinformation in their brain that just calcifies, and are unable to register new information about the world economies.