Whatever happen to the American dream?

Question

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty05/pov05hi.html

Answer 1

Got deported to China.

Answer 2

The American Dream is alive and well. In this country you are only limited by your ambition. If you have a desire to succeed opportunity is abundant. Scores of legal immigrants to come to this country with nothing in search of a better life. Many outpace regular Americans within a few years of arrival. Why? Because they have known true hardship and have what it takes. In general we Americans have become spoiled and lazy. Rather than working hard and striving to achieve, we whine and complain about how hard it is, and how we need help. If you don't like your life, change it. Do not tell me it cannot be done because millions of success stories make that claim hollow and false.

Answer 3

Oh Yes! The American dream is still alive.
A hard worker can come here, and live off the backs and sweat of others who have realized their dream and want a minute to enjoy it before it is wiped out by illegal, criminal types who come here and suck dry the social services, oportunities for our children to learn (depletion of our education system) and prosper in their American Dreams.
Not much about the American dream really matters anymore though. Sure you can come here and work like a slave and become prosperous, only to be taxed to the degree you become like a slave to inflation (housing prices?) rising energy costs (sky high and climbing) degradation of our environment (global warming, destruction of our state park wild lands by illegals and drug trafficers) including a mass influx of serious criminality that suffocates our prisons with rapists, murderers, sexual predators and more.
In the end, the American dream will be more of working like a slave to become a slave and to live in a world where there is little protection for your future from the next batch who would come and further degenerate the system (if it doesn't die first) in pursuits of their American Dreams.
How many may come with their unslacable thirsts for the realization of their greedy dreams, before the well runs dry?
How about it all you out there that have live and earned your dreams come true? Does the future look rosey? Are your interests being protected? Do you like the looks of the new, pursuers of the American Dream and the way they conduct themselves now that they are here. Will the future be brite for American ...or are we all JUST DREAMING!

Answer 4

The American Dream apparently is not for the American any more. They are too lazy to attain that dream.... that is why they are so hateful now.... they see the immigrant come... he works hard... and he obtains the very thing that the American wants but is too lazy to obtain. Come on. Stop racism.... Hug an illegal alien today.... make him your friend. Maybe some of his work ethics, morals, and family dedication may rub off on you and help you obtain the American dream.... because apparently you have forgotten how and try your hardest to blame others for your failures.... instead of looking in the mirror.

Answer 5

Yeah, it sure is tough for Americans to get the American Dream when we are having to pay for so many foreigners here illegally, and upward mobility is decreased by education degraded by that overcrowding and straining of resources. Not to mention the fact that wages for the lower middle class are degraded to the point that the lower middle class are pushed into poverty and can't be self reliant as historically they were in this country.

Presumably the illegal immigrants should have the 'Mexican Dream' the 'Polish Dream' and so forth for themselves in thier own countries. They should leave us to be able to achieve our own dream without carrying them, too.

Answer 6

I agree with this one. It "turns out you have to work for it" Poverty is a very temporary thing for those who are willing to work hard. I almost lost everything but I am pulling myself out of it and am in grad school. Oh, and I'm pulling myself out by doing things that the average chronically poor person or even not poor person would never be willing to do.

Answer 7

It's still there! It is available to all citizens (!!) who work hard.

Did you know that in America, at least two-thirds of the people currently living in poverty will, during their lives, move out of that bracket? America is a very mobile society, and people move into and out of different income brackets all the time.

Unlike a stagnant hellhole like, say, Mexico.

Answer 8

I don't know..
I lived there for about 15 years and have 2 American children and I had to come back to my country because there so much discrimination and hatred for the ilegal people..
and now almost 2 years later of living in my country one of my kids don't want to live..no only here he wants to end his life because he does not like here...he said to me..that what he lives for?...Live is not good...I'm very sad to hear my 14 years son saying things like that..I'm afraid too..
He wants to go back and I can't ...
I want to solve his problem...but American dream.....there is none....

Answer 9

It's a nightmare for those who pay taxes to pay for illegal aliens.

Even those living in "poverty" in this nation have it better off than where they came from.

FYI Those who are poverty stricken, get free housing, free food, free health care, free education and they still complain. Look around the world, even poor people in the U.S. don't have it so horrible...but they sure do like to boohoo.

Answer 10

It was lost a long time ago. No one wants to work for everything. They are lazy, but still want all the riches, fame and glory without putting any work into it!

Answer 11

rest assure im no hippy but the Man keeps us down look at the Disturbed video called Land of Confusion then ull understand how the world works