Good point, Ebbie! The average American is workin' his and her brains out for Boss Hog, just to stay a few steps behind. Choices of how time gets divied up are difficult and, sadly, a majority form their opinions not from real information, but sound bites which are fed to them like rats in Skinners box...

So, like they say, garbage in, garbage out...

And you already know the answer to the qiestion that you have posed about comparing the American worker's quality of life with the qualities of life of folks in other western populations... American workers are getting shafted by the corporations. The US is the only country in the western word that does not offer health care to its population. And with health insurance becoming more and more expensive it means that we Americans will have to work even longer on Boss Hog's widget plants to pay for it...

Yeah, it is no wonder that the population doesn't have a clue... No time fir clues...

Bobert