Fernando
Have you read "Atlas Shrugged"?
I am told by US partners that many americans feel like the industrialists in that book- doing most of the producing and surrounded by whining hangers-on with hands out who want to "have a say", attack the producer and rely on the basic goodness and honour of those they parasite.
This "feeling" may explain a lot.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1