Are other people as discouraged as me, by the U.S. government and leadership in our country? Why?

I am in my 40s too, but I don't blame Wall Street or the rich. I blame the government for tinkering with a system that worked pretty damn well for more than 150 years. Our country went from being a new, second rate country in 1776 to a super power within 175 years. How did the USA go from nothing to superpower in less than 200 years when no other country EVER has done that? It is called FREEDOM. Freedom to make money, freedom to do as you wish, freedom to invent and freedom from an oppressive government. For most of our history we had very light federal government intrusion in our daily lives. That started changing in the 1930s. Aside from Reagan, it has only gotten worse since about 1950. Yet a lot of people keep saying they want MORE government regulation to help "fix" the problems. Hasn't anyone realized that as the government has gotten bigger in the last 50-75 years, the more screwed up things get?