Actual American values:
*spend your way to happiness
*buy more
*do whatever it takes to get "ahead"
*whatever you do look good doing it
*it's not my fault
*what's in it for me?

Just thought I'd bring some reality to the discussion.

Life is a banquet -- and most poor suckers are starving to death -- Auntie Mame
You are born naked and everything else is drag - RuPaul