Because Americans believe in providing value to others in order to get compensated? Because Americans believe that people should be free to negotiate their own benefits package? Because Americans believe we shouldn't be empowering the government to force others to do what we want?
Nice fancy words there. Really all it boils down to is "Go make it happen, if you cant, fuck you"
See because no one disagrees with "Because Americans believe that people should be free to negotiate their own benefits package" but you make it sound so great. Until you find out that you cant negotiate with the job you need because you need it and you don't want to get fired.
Well maybe if you developed decent work habits and valuable skills you wouldn't have this problem. Remedial reading might be a place to start.