If I earn < a living wage I cannot invest.
If I earn > a living wage and save @ < 1% I maybe become rich in a thousand years.
If I inherit a large amount of capital, it is easy to 'earn' a larger amount of capital.
If I am a member of the 1% by birth, and do not use drugs, the old boy's network will ensure me a life of great wealth and an easy path to greater wealth. Hence the effort for a 'death tax' repeal.
If I am born poor and live in poverty it is unlikely I will earn a living wage, If I do and secure a union job the very wealthy will want my labor at a lesser rate and outlaw collective bargaining.
If I'm born poor and have poor health I'm out of luck.
The American Dream is dead; we live today in an Oligarchy of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
Welcome to the United States of America. Where the
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Where this fantasy of the American Dream's death began with the election of Ronald Reagan and fulminated under the ultra conservative hand of the callous conservatives in the 21st Century.
If I earn > a living wage and save @ < 1% I maybe become rich in a thousand years. Minimum skill set, minimum pay. Do something to improve your earnings.
If I inherit a large amount of capital, it is easy to 'earn' a larger amount of capital. Inheritance is a parent(s) providing for and taking care of their children. You are against I take it.
If I am a member of the 1% by birth, and do not use drugs, the old boy's network will ensure me a life of great wealth and an easy path to greater wealth. Hence the effort for a 'death tax' repeal. No money should be taxed more than once. If your parents or grandparents were smart enough to earn enough money to help their protege for generations, more power to them. I plan to do the same for Mine. Its called caring for your loved ones.
If I am born poor and live in poverty it is unlikely I will earn a living wage, If I do and secure a union job the very wealthy will want my labor at a lesser rate and outlaw collective bargaining. A bold faced lie. The number of examples and proof of poor and destitute climbing out of poverty can be found everywhere. The reason is they did not whine about a living wage, they went out and worked to better themselves and never looked back on a living wage because it would be a pay cut.
If I'm born poor and have poor health I'm out of luck. Another bold faced lie. Having poor health is not a detriment to improving life and health. Giving up means you are out of luck.
The American Dream is dead; we live today in an Oligarchy of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. Funny how you people always talk about the people voting for their own best interest (when you think your ideology is what they are voting for) but you don't seem to think that successful people have that same right.
Welcome to the United States of America. Where the
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Still exists. Your understanding of history and English is very poor. No where does that say the government will give you anything but an equal opportunity. We welcome ALL LEGAL immigrants. But come prepared to earn your way.
Where this fantasy of the American Dream's death began with the election of Ronald Reagan and fulminated under the ultra conservative hand of the callous conservatives in the 21st Century. Where your decoupling from reality began must have been at the First Grade. The American dream, as we all know it, is being slowly strangled by progressivism and Barak Obama.
