Nice article.... Leno basically said everything ive been thinking about the way things in America have been since about 2002-2003.... and he's the ONLY famous celebrity and entertainer who has the BALLS to say what he feels and go against the groupthought of the Hollywood and Media elite that permiates today's society.

The fact is that we here in America have more luxuries and live better, more comfortable lives now than even just a few decades ago... I mean just look back to as recently as the mid 70's when the economy was in a much greater recession then what they say we're in now and the standard of living, although still one of the best in the world at the time, wasn't  nearly as good as it is today with all the new luxuries and amenities we have.

And yet people find more and more stuff to bitch and whine about, especially American celebrities, who have the greatest standard of living in all of the world, EVER!   I agree that we should reflect on everything we have and how lucky we are that we aren't stuck in some third world shithole where people live like its still the 7th century.

 And to the nitwits who keep blabbing about how America doesn't have free healthcare...  with Hillary Clinton saying she wants to garnish the wages of workers in order to fund her proposed health care system and people in other countries with "free" health care like Canada and Britain having to wait on long lines or even having to go to other countries *cough* USA *cough* for some surgeries or certain kinds of procedures,   you can all keep your "free" healthcare, we've done just fine without it for over 2 centuries now thankyou very much   Yeah tell me again how Cuba is a worker's paradise and is so great cuz of free healthcare... thats why people are floating over here in tires and boats made out of old pick-up trucks... i dont see anyone swimming to canada or the UK for free healthcare... am i missing something?

We should provide free health care for people in US who can not afford it. Now that would be a great idea.

Yet again a thread meant to make you look at your live and realize how grateful you should be turns into a racial and politcal war.

America is becoming a very ungrateful and rude nation.

>We should provide free health care for people in US who can not afford it. Now that would be a great idea.


There's no such thing as "free health care", you pay high taxes, and pay 200 bucks for a PS2. ;) and 4+ dollars per litre of gas (15 dollars per gallon)

Too many people are being put in US prisons for minor offences. Now if more government money was spent on healthcare, education and social welfare, less money on BS wars leading nowhere. US government is corrupt and cares little for the plight of its citizens who are unfortunate to be living in poverty. How about more compassion?

Bush has destroyed all goodwill and most frienships you had outside US and the enemies poor old US has been getting during his years have ten folded and I think you should all be happy for your nation that he can´t be president longer.

 You are the winner my friend, and I said stuff to be PG I would have said the other, cause it turned into a bid steaming pile.

Personally I think taking Saddam out of power by any means should have happened LONG ago (he wouldn't very well hand over the country to his own people), Saddam killed so many of his OWN citizens for either speaking out, relatives protesting, or just to test some new gas he made to be put into a bomb, US forces found mass burial sites all over the country cause of things like that, his people was oppressed and people risked their lives to escape Iraq, the people could do nothing to fight back, if one man and his military controls all weapons, money, and power, theres no way to fight back, America done it only because we were a whole ocean away and we had the means to do so (weapons, food, knowledge of war), and after Saddam would have died (I've heard the argument that he would croke eventually) his sons would have taken over, which were worse then he was, they were known for raping and killing women for their own sick pleasure, I'm sorry but if you're the big guy on campus and you see a little weak guy getting the crap beat out of him you should help, same goes for opressed people, everyone deserves the right to do what they want and make their country what they want it to be.

Speaking of heathcare one of the things that always stuck with me from the movie Sicko was the guy in the U.S. who had to choose which finger to have reattached to his hand after an accident because he couldn't afford to pay to have both of them reattached. Could you imagine that happening to you or someone you loved?

I am very grateful to be living in America. There is a reason why my parents left their home country to move here and I'm very grateful that they did.
President Bush might not be the greatest president, but he still is my president and I don't like it when people bash him too much.

I think most people in America are grateful. Still the best country in the world.

The ignorant statements are getting really old now...

A. I come from one of those poor families everyone talks about, yet speaks out for "me" yet don't sit there and think of what the hell people like me think.

B. I'm poor but I worked my ass off to be able to go to college, with little to no cost to me.

C. My mom is a part of that percent that is out of work and can't get a job in her field, its part of free market, its what this country is built on the job markets pick up and slow down, YET with all of that I still have a relatively new Laptop and internet connection, it's amazing what a poor family can do with budgeting.

D. This is the only country where I can do all of the above, I would live no where else, people need to appreciate what they have, and instead of complaining or "worrying about the little guy" they need to actually do work if they want this country to improve.

Actually listen and thank to the others that make sense...