Perhaps I can be of some assistance.
The government deregulated the banking industry, which proceeded to hold the financial system hostage and demonstrate that it's members, although unelected, are powerful enough to dictate government policy, are poor stewards of the future of the country they feed on, and are criminals who knowingly blackmailed the country for taxpayer funded bailouts after being the ones who sold it down the river in the first place. Hence the depression.
Also the politicians are bought & paid for, we're committed to a neverending and badly handled war which no one seems to even bother questioning any more in spite of what it costs, the minimum wage is a joke and isn't representative of the value of labor as demonstrated by profits and the cost of living, and the modern financial system is geared to reward those which feed it the most bodies without regard for decency or sustainability. So laugh it up @ the dying canaries, but if things don't turn around, you "hard workers" might be next.
If you want to gripe about poor choices and moral vacuity, consider those who mortgaged your country and future. Keep your eye on the ball, kids.
