Oh brother. You have to have at least some perspective. The American median income is one of the highest in the world (top-3 or top-5 depending where you pull your numbers from) with some of the lowest taxes. You have a huge middle class that lives a very comfortable life. You have millions of people trying to immigrate to your country every year. You have very low unemployment rates. You have a highly diversified economy (from the best tech and financial sectors in the world, to mineral, oil and gas extraction). I get it, it's expensive to own property in California and New York and maybe it shouldn't be ... but you can't have everything!