[LightningJoe]

America was settled by people crazy enough to leave everyone and everything they knew, to get on a rickety wooden boat, to travel across a dangerous ocean, and to try to survive in a wilderness consisting of nothing but trees and people shooting arrows at them.


These people were self-reliant perhaps to the point of madness. A lot of them died or came to bad ends, but they built the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world.


The people who have come here more recently are of an entirely different sort. They have come to a wealthy country where they are taken care of. Self-reliance is less dominant in them than in the original settlers.


The nature of Americans has changed a lot since the Founders wrote the Constitution. The results are as we see. This will continue.