Daley: We're a country of whiners [View All]

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: WLS

March 4, 2011 (WHEATON, Ill.) (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says we're "a country of whiners."

The mayor spoke to several hundred people at Wheaton College Thursday.

The visit was in support of the school's J. Dennis Hastert Center. Daley took some questions, including one about how to restore America.

"We have become a country of whiners, my theory. We started whining about the Japanese. 'The Japanese are gonna take us over.' You know, we thought we defeated them in the Second World War, rebuilt it, they're taking us over in 1970. 'What's going to happen to America? They're gonna own our country. That's it. We're all out of jobs,'" Daley said. "Then we start whining about the Mexicans. 'We're losing all the manufacturing to Mexico. Look what's taking place. We cannot compete. We can't do this, we can't do this.' Now, we forgot about the Mexicans. Now, we're whining about the Chinese and the Indians. We're a country of whiners. That's all we are. We should have enough confidence that we can compete with people if we all sacrifice a little bit for the common good. If we do that, we can compete with any nation."

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