It use to be that you could come to America poor and gain wealth. Now it is very unlikley if you are born middle or lower class that you could be Higher class by the end of your life, or even the end of your grandchildrens lives.
I want to know your opinion of what happened to the american dream.
2006-06-29 21:37:47 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Oh we are in big big trouble... See the poor is going to have the last laugh in about 12 years. They know how to survive when our economy goes belly up after the baby boomers retire.
I read that the projected federal deficit will be 80-85 trillion dollars in 12 years! Wall Street and Forbes predicts that. What will the rich people do when the dollar falls so fast they can't cope with their huge losses? See no one looks much into what is going to happen when the economy is going to slow down due to not enough employees.
Raise taxes to support the baby boomers is estimated to be fourfold. Who will pay to keep SSI going?
We need about 35 million trained emigrants to fill the gap... and the way I see it... that isn't going to happen.
No people... this is just a taste of what is going to come. We are so used to living with our noses deep in credit cards that most of us are just a few weeks from bankruptcy if anything were to go wrong.
The poor will survive... it will be the rich jumping off tall buildings.
If only we had not aborted all those kids... our economic disaster could have been averted. They would be taxpayers... and since more than 70 percent of infants are aborted for convenience sake.... we can only blame ourselves.
2006-06-29 21:45:13 · answer #1 · answered by ddead_alive 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm sorry, but you are confused. The American Dream was never about getting rich. The American Dream was that here in America, you could work hard and get everything you needed and probably a fairly comfortable place to live and raise your chidren. That dream was a reality then and remains a reality today. Every year many thousands of immigrants come to this country legally (and illegally too) and they get jobs relatively quickly, rent apartments, get grants from the government just for being new and then also for training and school and small business loans and grants too. While there is poverty in America, it is not widespread. As for those of us already here, it might interest you to know that if you make just $7.50 an hour, you are among the richest 7% of human beings on earth. Furthermore, you can go to the store with the money your earn and buy almost anything you want in any quantity. Many places, no matter how much money you have you still won't find more than a small bag of rice and some wilted vegitables on the shelf and you'll pay ten times as much.
What happened to the American Dream is that people have become greedy and totally unrealistic with their dreams. They see actors on television living fantasy lives: high school kids driving exotic cars, people with no education living in mansions, women who work part time in coffee houses wearing Christian Dior, and they believe that what they are looking at on TV is real and normal. It's not.
Here in America you really probably can acheive just about anything you're willing to work for. THAT is the American Dream and it is not a dream, but reality. The key is hard work, focus, no fooling around and setting realistic, well researched expectations that do not come from watching the television.
Best wishes!
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2006-06-29 22:16:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
American Dream still exist for people who believe it does, and for people who works hard. Dream could not become reality unless you put an action to it. It's like an apple tree teaming with fruits, but unless you starts harvesting them rather than waiting for the fruits to fall ...then a dream will just remain a dream.
2006-06-29 21:48:23 · answer #3 · answered by á?¦â?«â?¥flygalâ?¥â?«á?¦ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~For anyone with a brain and a little ambition, it is as alive and well as it ever was. The more accurate question is "Whatever happened to the American Dreamer?" Oh, right. He's playing Play Station and expecting that the world owes him a living.
2006-06-29 21:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was all falsified by the government. the real American dream is the rich get richer while the poor get raped without lube. society does not look out for the little man. everything is about big business. well big businesses like walmart are destroying the small communities by running out the mom and pop shops who were there for generations.
2006-06-29 21:41:36 · answer #5 · answered by deathdealer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every person found their own that they could never live up to anyway. and once they do, it doesn't mean a thing because they feel the same anyway. or they looked at others dreams and made them their own and are now unhappy because the made it and found out that's not what they wanted in the first place
2006-06-29 21:45:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It went down with the twin towers.
2006-06-29 21:40:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It became the nightmare known as ultraconservative republicanism.
2006-06-29 21:39:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It got lost in divorce court.
2006-06-29 21:44:16 · answer #9 · answered by MissWendy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen to what ddeadalive said and my answer???
Out government murdered it.
2006-06-29 22:20:01 · answer #10 · answered by kissmymindagain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋