I came up with a good one - "The Huffington Post isn't worth the paper it isn't written on". Sensationalist garbage, for the most part. A little naive to get sucked into that, you being a world traveler, and all. Maybe you oughta look just a teeny weeny bit beyond Google, and try to see what you are talking about.
California, alone, has an economic output over twice that of the Netherlands. So your view may be a little constrained, by being so far away from here. All of your news, data, experience, and opinions are necessarily filtered through media. More caricature, than reality, really.
