There is no joy of achievement in America any longer. It has been replaced by a robust, and growing, sense of entitlement. Just as in the last days of the Roman Empire it is all "bread and circuses" now
My wife and I were watching TV news recently. The story concerned some new assault on the freedom of Americans. Both of us were repulsed by the story. In a rare comment on the news, my wife turned to me and said: "I've about had my fill of this." The inference was -- the changes in modern America are just too painful to bear for those Americans, like us, who remember when America was truly free.
