As an American, I apologize. Like all of us, I am a mendacious and predatory economic sociopath. The United States contributes nothing positive at all to the global economy or culture. If only we could be like Norway -- which is, as I am told, perfect.
[Edit to counter a bit of my snark: I'm not saying these aren't problems, I'm just complaining about the stupidity of listing all of these more-or-less known issues and then grouping all Americans into a lump and asking us why we're all such idiots. The United States is a gigantic, complex nation of hundreds of millions of people whose voices need to be filtered into some kind of governmental consensus. It's not at all fair to compare the US to a Scandinavian country.]
[Edit to counter a bit of my snark: I'm not saying these aren't problems, I'm just complaining about the stupidity of listing all of these more-or-less known issues and then grouping all Americans into a lump and asking us why we're all such idiots. The United States is a gigantic, complex nation of hundreds of millions of people whose voices need to be filtered into some kind of governmental consensus. It's not at all fair to compare the US to a Scandinavian country.]