Photo: Even the homeless have to in the "Land of Plenty" are becoming more imaginative in order to survive ("Do you manage to meet with the coin in the cup?")
08/16/2010, Vienna
The "Spiegel" reports on the economic and social development in the U.S. and provides impressive and alarming numbers, which requires visitors began as a vague impression. One in eight Americans and one in four children living on state food stamps. 17% of the population is either unemployed or can not directly feed on their day jobs adequately. And the clear majority expects that it will go their children worse than themselves Where is the proverbial optimism of the Americans gone? If the consumer spending to rise again only to try again to cut down on the plaster, before the house auseinanderbröckelt?
Since the 70s the average income of working men has stagnated at $ 45,000, while that of top earners has since tripled. How long does the here is the belief that everyone can make it with hard work to the very top? After all, this is one of the basic conditions for social peace in the country.
other hand, a saving in Hawaii on Friday to school in parts of Georgia, the public bus and set in Colorado Springs, you can no longer afford even the electricity for the streetlights. This is no longer the "land of plenty" is. Although it is still the nation that looks down on everyone else and has its own model for thinking, but this can prove more difficult.
Our impressions of the lack of infrastructure in urban areas only existing mobile networks, poor Container houses and especially frightening many homeless people were obviously a true facet of reality. The 21 Century will probably not include the United States. Visit America as long as it still stands!
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