Rich, What do you expect when TV baby sits and raises the children. Kids know if they dont make it in the real world tax payers will support them, and all we do is tell everyone else in the world how much better we are then them. Not only do we preach to the rest of the world, but then we knock on their front doors to convert them to our way of life.
I love my country and I would die for my values, but maybe thats because I have actually have values. We need to stop telling every other country how to be better and try to rescue our own society and sense of responsibility. If I was in another country with a polite well educated child and a low rate of unemployment, and a sense of personal responsibility, I would be pissed if the US told me they do things better, especially since many of the people preaching this probably never actually have been to the area of the world they are trying to convert.
However, I still wouldnt ever live anywhere else, but that doesnt mean that everywhere else should change for my sake, especially if I am not interested in living there!