A Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Almost every other day for about a month now, I have been getting news of friends, acquaintances or others in USA losing their jobs, getting laid off, facing rough weather. It saddens me to see such a state of affairs. People have gone there imagining a better quality of life, more money, more fun etc etc. Alas its no longer so - or so it seems for the time being. Lonliness I have seen and I can understand and Health problems too. But somehow personally, its quite unsettling for me to see people put their entire life into a job role, working for a company for a monthly salary and then getting blown to pieces when suddenly the company they have been working for decides to throw them out. Maybe its because I my mind doesnt agree to the concept of working under anyone. But this is life for the majority of us.
Talking about USA and other western countries - I fail to understand what kind of a false world we all live in !! Our own small cocoons and misleading imaginations of a comfort zone abroad - when it is not even there any longer. The US of sixties and seventies is gone now. India is a much better place now in comparison to USA - in all respects. Why live there in search of a heaven which is non existent ? To me now - its just a boulevard of broken dreams. Nothing else..