Phil Gramm is right. America HAS become a nation of whiners. At an Obama town meeting in Elkhart, IN, this mortgage broker (hmm, wonder what he was up to during the past few years?) says the country is in the dumpster and has been “held hostage by the oil companies,” so what’s the government going to do? Barack Obama gives an extended answer that’s long on pie-in-the-sky programs and short on how the American pie actually gets baked. No mention of personal responsibility or initiative, no acknowledgement that the private sector is the engine that actually drives innovation and the economy. No, more government programs are what we need — including an electric car in every garage that will drive us to the Big Rock Candy Mountain.