From the article: Waking Up From the American Dream
Has the worst recession since the Depression destroyed the American Dream: solid economic growth, better jobs for our kids, retirement at 65. Are are we headed for an "extended lower standard of living?" Should we restore the American Dream, or replace it with something new? Share Your Opinion
Restore!
- We will restore the American dream when people like you and me share our ideas to fix the economy. But the challenge is to get the government to implement our ideas! With a 9.1% unemployment rate our government needs all the ideas it can get. The perfect scenario of 0% unemployment would save our country hundreds of billions of dollars each year by no longer needing welfare or unemployment compensation. Will we get a new administration in 2012 to fix things? Time will tell if they can do a better job.
- —Guest Marty Boone
dream for selected andruthless ones
- native americans are eliminated . white house keeps its resoures intact while userps others` whatever way they feel right. it is land of opportunity only for few. giant is hunting others just to fill up his bottomless belly.
- —Guest pop
Boycott the Bureau
- We have to go back to hard work and start making things instead of making things up...
- —Guest Steven Lee
co-opted government
- our form of government is not 'capitalism' but democratic-republic. we need to keep that in mind. get back to a basic definition of civilization, since that is what the basis of the 'american dream' is. make up your own list. but i start with some simple things like: take care of the weakest members our society first, the young, the poor the sick, the old. that makes nationalized health care a first round pick. then make all government elected positions funded by a government subsidy, limited and graduated per office. get lobbyist money out of the equation. dont have to get rid of lobbyists, just the financial influence. until that happens the US is sunk. it will continue to be run by corporations posing as 'citizens' or 'individuals'. then maybe the elected reps can focus on passing laws that actually make sense and are not founded on share holder profits. you want the 'american dream'? start with changes to the current state of our perverted governing process.
- —TempeAZ
what is it????
- i cant find what the american dream definition is even if you read the whole fricken thing i looked. how are you supposed to know???
- —Guest maddy
Dreams
- THe americans have to realise that irrespective f every thing they possess enormous high quality human resources which I believe the world needs badly.Even a machinist in America is better than any of his counterpart abroad except pehaps a german. Americans have much togive to the world. Some one said about renewable energy/ bio technology I believe he is very right.America should concentrate on high technology which it excels.There are enormous opportunity available in Countries like India just to improve roads, produce better equipment for use etc.
- —Alok.Misra
American dream
- The American dream is to have decent life and care for others and society with respect and be honest as a person and straightforward and not cheating others complaining that there is no financial regulation since 1837, and lead a clean life from Feb, 2011 and just don't exaggerate life and do say as you see and live by sharing thoughts and friendly with all neighbors and generally to all fellow citizens, because all these were missing in US all these years and if the Americans are serious to change they have to change their attitude towards the economy and daily life with much caring.Up to now each American what they wanted is to enjoy one's own life with others money.The US is more capitalistic than democratic, to justify this the present financial crisis proves it. The very reason of financial crisis in US is the "CORRUPTION".So please stop borrowing the money and drain all money from the world bank.JUST EARN IT BY WORKING.
- —Guest chand
Mary D
- I suspect that the USA has within its borders the greatest concentration and variety of human, natural, and technical resources so far seen in one spot on this planet, controlled by a relatively free society. e.g. nobel laureates. Thus the potential for Americans, and everybody else, is great; I wish Americans well in maximising that potential. Whatever the American Dream might be the resources of the USA need to be well organised to achieve it. For about 40 years those resources have not been well organised, and some readjustment needs to occur. I suspect that reorganisation is beginning, but the international community's unwillingness to sort out its massive debts is delaying that process. Americans are renown for their resilience, hard work, and inventiveness; provided they have confidence in themselves, and accept that life is dynamic, they have the potential to achieve their dreams, and bounce back in a slightly different and fast moving world. ,
- —Guest Mary Donnelly
Corporations own the republican party
- The collapse of Wall Street has made it very clear to me that if you are rich and powerful in this country you can get away with anything.The whole country is suffering because of the greed and recklessness of an elite class of people.These same folks are now bragging of record profits in the corporate world and still collecting obscene bonuses while the rest of us suffer.What is the difference between Madoff ripping off his clients with a Ponzi scheme and Wall Street ripping off the American taxpayers with their credit default swaps,CDO's,dirivitives and sub prime mortgages?Why are not some of these CEO's and others not in prison next to Madoff because they have perpetrated a massive fraud on the whole world and none of them have even been fired?
- —Guest Jon Eric
The dream is not dead
- The American Dream is the product of the 18th Century Enlightenment that wrested Man's destiny from the absolute monarchs who claimed to be the earthly incarnation of God's will and placed it squarely in Man's hands. Man and Man alone was responsible for controlling his life, his liberty, and pursuing his happiness. The US became the embodiment of that philosophical sea change. As we saw most recently in Egypt, that dream still thrives and bring disaster down on any who try to frustrate it. There are those who would make little of the American Dream and do so at their peril. The American Plutocracy espouses other views and has systematically sought to destroy the dream. As the saying goes, "he who sows the wind, shall reap the tempest".
- —JimWygand
Anyone may like men
- The american dream is the ability to be gay with whoever you want.
- —Guest DaMonsta17
The American Dream
- Ia what all Americans can work for. It allows people to work and make something of themselves.
- —Guest Bookiie
What is it?
- Nowhere on this artice does it say what the american dream is? How am i supposed to know
- —Guest georgie
The American Dream is inequality
- The American Dream is not fair to citizens of the United States. After laws was pass that Ameicans will live the pursuit of happines only refeered to certain groups. Everyone came to America as immigrants and the slave masters"white man degraded other groups from being a citizen unless you were white or black. Asian, Hispanics, Native Americans were not apart of the American Dream. In that time frame those groups including blacks could not buy property, own a business, and they had to live in slumbs working in dangerous envirnoments. After World II American soliders were told that they were going to be place in a clean neighborhood when they came home. Banks only lended to whites because they thought other races was a threat. I just wanted to say we have grown from that but that still goes on today in a different form. The American Dream is for white , rich, healty Americans it is time for a change as our formal president Barak Obama suggested. I hope the dream was in his change .
- —Guest Alicia Callahan
The 'dream' has been altered
- The American dream meant so much more in the past than it does today. The concept of it has been changed from principles of freedom, to materialism. The basis of the dream in what seems a long time ago was the constitution, the declaration of independence, laws, and the bill of rights. These few things meant so much to our growing land. Citizens wanted to be free, and to have rights as did other countrys that came to America seeking those very same things. That was Americas dream. Today however in the present we already have our rights and freedoms but we want so much more. In my own opinion Americans have become very selfish and I am but one in the group. We want land, houses, cars, money, love, families, and things we want not the things we need. As the future pushes froward it will bring upon greater things that we will 'want.' The dream will never have the same principles as it used to!
- —Guest Piper Monti
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