Cultural Crisis

I'm seriously beginning to have concerns about the society that I'm planning on raising my daughter in.
Contributing factors:

1. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. This made me realize that Anya will grown up in a very competitive world where no job is secure and anything that Americans have considered entitlements, like jobs and education and infrastructure can not be taken for granted. Do I want Anya to grow up in a culture that is currently reducing funding for the National Science foundation at a time when the world is getting more and more competitive?

2. Sicko, the New Michael Moore "documentary". I know Michael Moore is a crack pot (though he's my kind of crack pot I must admit) But regardless how crazy he spins stuff and how many stupid stunts he pulls, the basic facts are there: we are the only Western Industrialized Nation that doesn't have universal health care. Poor people in this country, and even a lot of middle class folks are pretty much one doctor visit away from bankruptcy. Should Anya learn that the fear of people taking advantage of the system, or having to wait a little longer in line to see a doctor (both unfounded fears mind you) is worth the health and welfare of real people?

3. Affluenza, a book based on a PBS show that [somewhat tongue-in-cheek] likens our current materialist society to a social disease. Do I want Anya to grow up to learn that the major metric of her worth is how much she can buy (not how much she can afford mind you, America now has a NEGATIVE savings rate). Mean while ad agencies are actively trying to undermine my authority as a "gate keeper" so they can teach my child to successfully nag me to buy her stuff she doesn't need that won't ultimately add to her joy in life.

I'm afraid that some of the inner workings of our culture are beginning to eat themselves. I learned the other day that, since 1950 American have consumed more natural resources than all people who lived before 1950 combined. That's just horrifying.
I learned that since 1970 our productivity has increased by something like 70%. So what did we do? Spend more time enjoying life, playing with our kids and golfing? Nope. We now work something like 10% more hours than in the 70s. Do I really want my daughter to grow up in a country that makes that sort of decision en masse?

Jesus said the worth of a tree should be judged by the fruit it bares. Why is our culture producing these realities? Not to mention the wars the pollution and the fact that kids don't trick-or-treat anymore outside of malls. Do I want Anya to grow up trusting the Gap more than our neighbors? And seeing as how we live in a democracy and this is the state of the world, it would seem that the majority of folks in this country think this is okay.

I know other cultures have their problems. But they don't have THESE problems.