What Happened to The American Dream?

Carol R

What really upsets me about those statistics is that the majority of the people living under the poverty level are children. They are forced to grow up too quick under substandard living situations. That's what really breaks my heart. They did nothing wrong, they were born into poverty and very few will ever get out.

lucyanddesi

Walmart chopped it up and sold it as cheap crap to the mexicans.

DAR

Illegals are driving down wages and ruining education's upward mobility for our less wealthy people. The rich get richer and the poor gets poorer. Also, some of the poor counted are the illegals themselves, and how they calculate income for someone with untraceable income is a question.

Obviously, that is not all of the problem, but it is a very big chunk of it. The US has a lower share of gross domestic product going to wages right now than it has had at any time since 1943.

Willis Jeffords

It's still alive and well. Careful though, it's not called the American Guarantee. You do have to work hard, be creative, and provide real value to succeed.

hexa

If you are very smart, talented, or win the lottery then you can have the American dream, if you are not smart or talented, or win the lottery, you are out of luck. You can not work an average job anymore and get a house, it takes two people with very good jobs, or one person that makes 100 thousand a year or more. Those are the people that can afford a house, the rest of us get Mobil homes or Apts. Just an average job will by you nothing.

flawed broadcast

we are all being kept in a state of stress that limits our rem sleep... making us dream less??? Too many conservatives in power from Reagan on, even Clinton can't be seen as very liberal. Have people like that in control, and they have to have tax cuts for the rich and change taxes on corporations to repay their supporters...

peregrine003

the american dream exists all over the world to those who are living a decent life working paying your taxes etc.....

Selfishness, greed, and a bad attitude to those who try to accomplish it, they are thought of a hopeless people. As Americans, we wait for the underdog story to happen to us, but for many it never comes. Unlike the fathers of our past, who MADE their success, we now wait for it, and hope to be lucky.

fanofkeanur

This proverbial phrase is now lost to Swedish, Norwegian even Finnish Dream passing us with only scraps.

smack

its still alive... we're pumping it out of iraq and shipping it to the states as we speak ..

BHANU V. RAVAL

dreams are dreams only, not reality !!!

vicente fox

Why is every one putting down poverty. There are 2 sides to every coin. Forever child that is in Mexico that starves I get to eat steak that evening. If children were to be well taken care of then I would need to go with out.

DUH people it is called survival of the fittest.

Smudgeward

That went out w. free immigration; but real poverty on the other hand (excepting the mentally ill, alcoholics and drug addicts) doesn't exist in the first world. Thanks to the post WW2 New Deal reforms and Socialist influences you have to go to the third world to see real poverty that generations of people are trapped into w. no loop holes. There is a certain dignity in real poverty like the guy w. no legs who I saw working his guts out in a garage in Brazil using a jerry rigged skateboard to slide around on and v. happy to be alive and still trying. The American dream was for them.

walter27282000

It's been Outsourced..........

RENEGADE.

I am living it. In MY country, AMERICA!

United We Stand

This is what happened to it:

We continue to open our borders and hearts to those desiring a piece of the American dream. We only require they met the necessary criteria and go about it the lawful way. This is not a matter of being compassionate or heartless. It's a matter of simple 'right and wrong.'

Carol R

lack of birth control plan parenthood could have prevented this

lashkar-e-hind

It turned into a nightmare

illegals_suck

It's reserved for AMERICANS, and NOT illegal criminals!

Meritocracy

Simple. The two-party system destroyed it. The whole world's got the message by now. You're big, you're powerful, you're the dominant male. Now have a left-wing party and make you're own country better before you go off changing the world.

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