Are America's social problems, a direct result of our greed and indifference to our fellow man?

Question

We Americans seem to complain about the same un-resolved issues

every time a presidential election comes around.

Answer 1

absolutely,

Don McClanen thinks a condition called pleonexia has overtaken the U.S. 'Pleonexia is an insatiable need for more of what I already have, and it has penetrated our culture to the point where people are angry at the poor,' he states."

Jaye Scholl; Don McClanen Offers the Wealthy a Different Kind of Freedom; Barron's (New York); Sep 18, 2000.

Answer 2

America's Social problems are the same problems every nation has, worldwide. Poverty, Taxes, Employment, etc....  Our problems are only magnified because we have 300 million people (3rd most populous nation on the planet). But greed and indifference have no correlation to issues America faces.

Answer 3

Yes. I believe that to be true.