What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.
The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
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