Americans, Too comfortable? Options

[*steve330*]

The other day I was talking to a Retired Captain from the navy and we were just discussing things in general when we came up to the topic of America. He brought up some very good points, and while I'll try to say them the best I can, the way he said it was really good.

Basically he was saying that perhaps one of the biggest problems with Americans nowadays is that we're too comfortable. We've gotten so used to not having to worry about things on a daily basis that we're not nearly as ambitious as Americans used to be.

Another thing he criticized was fund allocation. Surprisingly, he didn't say that money needed to go towards science/technology like so many do. In his words, "What has science done for us as a people?" I mean sure, technology has made us more comfortable on a day to day basis and made it easier for us to kill each other, but when it comes down to it, Americans got to their current status because of it's people, not it's technology.

[*steve330*]

Actually I'm not making this into a war debate. I'm very pro war, and I'm a very conservative person, but that aside. So many Americans are born into comfortability and because of that they won't have to work as hard to achieve certain things, and it will only dwindle down until we're not longer at the state we are in.

Also who becomes president for money?

Not saying any of this is fact, just opinion.