Ok, I take back my generalizations. Yeah it was a bit childish. I was speaking from my personal experience and the fact that I see everyday. The average American college students and their level of education and skill is not in comparison with their European, Indian and Chinese companion. And this is why their president keeps on telling them to go back to school to acquire more knowledge and skill so that they can compete with Indians and Chinese. Most of the engineering and now more of the science departments on US universities are flooded by foreign students, mainly Indians and Chinese. And these students go on to work for a high paying job in a company managed by Americans, may be for a while. But we are seeing that as soon as they find opportunities in their own countries, which is happening more and more, they leave US. This trend will grow further more with most of the money invested in China and India. All the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries for cheaper labor may make few capitalists in US rich, majority of americans are left jobless. And this is how the gap between classes are widening. And as for what their president's been saying, for what are they going to compete when most of the opportunities are exported. And let's not forget the catastrophic american foreign policies we have seen in recent years. America so far has been exploiting poorer countries to their benifits. They have 5% of the world's population and yet the consume more than 50% of world's natural resources contributing to 30% of world's pollution. Even with $3/gallon, the gas in US is still one of the cheapest in the world. So now that their foreign relations are deterioting, the are bound to fall back.