And despite coming back from going 8-0 down after Deacon's goal and Vainikolo's first try on 18 minutes, Saints made a host of errors and had noanswer to Bradford's five-try blitz in the closing 13 minutes.
The larger answer is that no, the United States is not a mean country made up of mean people getting meaner, because a call for spending cuts is not indicative of a lack of care for others unless you are convinced that the spending is actually working to lift people out of poverty.