Oh, stop your whining already

Is it just me, or is everyone whining these days, and not just my kids.

People can't afford their mortgages.

• well, you shouldn't have bought a house to flip that you couldn't afford. Just ask Representative Laura "deadbeat" Richardson.

People can't afford health insurance.

• Get a job that provides it. Heck, Starbucks provides health insurance for goodness sake.

Gas is sooo expensive.

• Give up your double mochas, or cut back on eating out. I did the math. It's costing me $100 more a month to drive my Aviator. Guess what we're doing ... giving up eating out a couple times a month. Bam. Family of four saves $100. I don't see the headlines on that one.
• Move to Europe and sob to me about gas prices. Europe is paying 2-3 times what we are, always have, always will.

Be grateful that we don't live in China where the walls literally came tumbling down killing (officially) more than 41,000 people. and leaving more than 5 million people homeless. The Northridge earthquake we had in LA back in '94 killed 72 people, but the redevelopment turned Ventura Blvd. into a cool place to hang out.

Be grateful that we don't live in Myanmar where (officially) more than 134,000 people have died or are missing from the recent Cyclone, due mostly to the corruption of the Junta government and their inability to keep their grubby hands off the emergency aid. Hurricane Katrina took the lives of less than 2,000 across both Louisiana and the Gulf states.

Since when is life supposed to be pain and discomfort free. I believe that the "Greatest Generation" were those who grew up and came of age during the Great Depression. Maybe a little bit of pain will turn these whiners into men and women.