You like [the US] just the way it is, Doug?  Well, if you mean it's a better place to live than any other country in the world today, there is certainly an argument to made for that viewpoint (though Swedes, Brits, Canadians, Aussies, New Zealanders, and some others would probably disagree with you).  But if you mean there's not a lot of room for improvement, my jaw just dropped wide open!

We have about 20% of black males behind bars, many seniors have to choose between food and their needed medicines (or heating their homes), the gap between rich and poor is widening, multinational corporations are thumbing their noses at our own labor and environmental and public health laws, our educational system is lagging behind that of many other developed countries, our air and water quality is far from ideal and our wilderness areas are vanishing (along with many species)--and now we face the threat of the kind of violent attacks that are commonplace in Israel, with our government asking for more and more power to intrude into our private lives and take away our property and liberty without what has traditionally been held to be "due process."

Please say you don't think everything is just fine and dandy the way it is here in the US now.

Genie

PS,

What you said, Big Mick.