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    How To Turn The American Dream Into A Nightmare

    This is what liberal progressives want.

    How To Turn The American Dream Into A Nightmare

    If one decides to destroy the American Dream, there are a few steps that would be necessary.

    1. Put Big Government in charge. The average American can’t figure out his or her own dreams, let alone what it would take to make them a reality.
    2. Tell Americans that without the government, the American Dream is hopeless.
    3. Produce a lengthy document about the American Dream. Leave out the word “freedom,” let alone the idea of freedom.
    4. Let people know that “freedom” (without actually using the word) is quite harmful. Don’t worry, thought, Big Government will protect you.

    If you think this sounds like China’s Little Red Book and not an American tale, you’re close to the mark. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote about in a piece called “How to revive the American dream,”.”

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    Link to How to revive the American dream.
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    Government works for the privileged class, always has, always will.

    The "dream" is shrinking because resources are shrinking and we are producing less per capita and spending more on per capita. Ask not what you can do for your country thing.

    But the wealthy must by all means continue to become more wealthy and minoritized.

    That's what happening basically, the middle class is getting $#@!ed in the ass.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Government works for the privileged class, always has, always will.

    The "dream" is shrinking because resources are shrinking and we are producing less per capita and spending more on per capita. Ask not what you can do for your country thing.

    But the wealthy must by all means continue to become more wealthy and minoritized.

    That's what happening basically, the middle class is getting $#@!ed in the ass.
    Globalism is hurting the middle class. Competition and free trade can be a $#@! on the global level. You are competing with people who make a fraction of what our middle class makes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Globalism is hurting the middle class. Competition and free trade can be a $#@! on the global level. You are competing with people who make a fraction of what our middle class makes.
    Agreed but it's one factor.

    All things considered, if there is a "free" global market (don't get me started on that either) then for the US to be competitive our standard of living would have to naturally decrease while the standard of living for our global competitors (China) would have to increase until there is an equilibrium. Since we have the worlds highest standard of living it only makes sense that we will see a decrease here.

    It's inevitable, a product of the market. We can't be isolationists.

    Now, the twist that interest me is the class system with our global competitors, how do their wealthy fare in all of this? Probably a lot like ours and to a degree they're in the same middle class vs. upper class struggle also.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Government works for the privileged class, always has, always will.

    The "dream" is shrinking because resources are shrinking and we are producing less per capita and spending more on per capita. Ask not what you can do for your country thing.

    But the wealthy must by all means continue to become more wealthy and minoritized.

    That's what happening basically, the middle class is getting $#@!ed in the ass.


    That pretty much what Warren and de Blasio say.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    That pretty much what Warren and de Blasio say.
    Must be smart fellas

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    Sure, they see a problem most see. For some reason they dissociate government from the problem and see it as the only solution. It is the problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Sure, they see a problem most see. For some reason they dissociate government from the problem and see it as the only solution. It is the problem.
    My point didn't disassociate government though, it was fairly neutral in this respect.

    I think government is an extension of people (and the economy) in many/most cases, but just one factor of many though.
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    Developing nations need a labor force. A big labor force. Once they are pretty well fleshed out the same labor force becomes a liability. The "American Dream" was nothing more than a sales pitch to attract people here. The new world order will have to contend with this people glut.
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    Government got out of the way the dream would reawaken (:-)). It's changed, we need to change. As explained in this video interview of John Tamny, author of Popular Economics, we need to seek out comparative advantage.

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