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The U.S Has Zero Problems

Well, it has one problem

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Frank J. Fleming
Jan 29, 2026
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People keep talking about all the problems our country has.

What in the world are they talking about?

No one starved to death in the U.S. in the past year. Everyone seems to be wearing clothing. I don’t see a lot of people having to sleep out in the rain.

So everyone has food, shelter, and clothing, so what problems could people possibly be talking about?

Well, I’ll give you a tip: Don’t actually ask people what problems they have, because if you do, people will respond in this high-pitch, incomprehensible gibberish. Because this country does have one problem, and I’ll tell you exactly what it is:

Whining.

You’d think that when actual problems are taken care of, people would be happy all the time. I mean, throughout human history, people struggled to just be fed and live another day. Now that none of us has to worry about that, you’d think we’d be dancing around and partying all the time.

But no, it does not work that day. It ends up when people have all their real problems taken care of, that just frees up time to complain. You see, back in the olden times, people didn’t have time to complain — they had to spend all their time trying to survive. But now that we don’t have to struggle to survive, we have lots of time to just whine, which I guess is human nature when we don’t have problems.

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