Is the U.S. still 'the land of the free' today?

i did not insult you, and yes i know people looking for work. i can also remember it taking me a year and a half after getting my masters to find a good job. meanwhile i sold guaranteed 5 yr light bulbs over the phone in the evenings and worked the morning shift at McDonald's and then worked 24 hrs a day four days a week in a daytime secretarial job and then a double shift at an answering service. i know malls that have been boarded up since the 80's and businesses that have closed through out my life time. I remember terrible stock market crashes in the 80's that wiped out people's retirement funds. My point is that everything you are referencing is just business as usual in life. No one gets a free ride. there are jobs out there, but most people don't want them. but you have to pay your dues sometimes a few times. And whether you want to believe it or not the fact is that the stock market has being doing better, unemployment s down, jobs available are up, crime is less than it was 8 years ago, the economy is better and life by and large is much better.

i would suggest you look at http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/obamas-numbers-january-2016-update/