Comment: "The single biggest thing we could do to improve "democracy" (via work in America) is to instill in us a spirit of generous service and cheerful self-gift, vs. the creeping entitlement that has overtaken America's workforce."

Really, R.D.?  So Americans are lazy.   It is unpatriotic thinking like that that has led American corporations to move jobs overseas where they can pay sweatshop wages just like they once did in this country.