The culture of "Someone Else..."

Mom, Mike and I went for a run today. however, right before we started, I got a hunch. 

The hunch had everything to do with the way we live. The way we operate in our daily routine.  

Personally, I am from a second world country, Ukraine, and most of my Russian people, even though they do provide and receive services, do things by themselves( with their own hands.) For example they get up in the morning and go to work like anyone in US does, but during the lunch time they gotta go grub groceries from the market, because there is gonna be none after they get off work. So the life, survival, teaches you responsibilities and being responsible.

But, today it kinda got to me that this nation is really used to have someone else doing things like changing oil, shopping, delivering, washing and whatever-other-service out there. Even though all those people DO pay (usually) for all the services which are provided to them, they DO loose that little link to learning greater survival responsibilities.

Now, to make a link to the financial crisis, think how we are dependent on this great pyramid (Government.) We want someone else to fix it for us, even though we might have to pay for it a great deal of money.  Instead of cutting personal spending and electing officials who will cut certain, inefficient social welfares, we charge more and more on the credit cards and get bigger and bigger mortgages. Ohh and the debt clock in New York is gone too. (tell you the truth, they ran out of digits, but I didn't tell you that)

Cheers,

Alex P