Steve, U r right, you are better off than your grand parents, but this is not the right kind of growth, you do not have a say in what kind of growth you need. If the time the break neck growth is over, you would have lost many things. Just imagine your kids may say the same thing, without freedom of expression what the hell I am doing in this country, will telling them the tales of how bad it was in your grand parents time would convince them ??