What HAPPENED to the American DREAM?

[Super_Lantern]

Other countries work to LIVE. We live to WORK

 

[MisterBeale]

You gotta be a millennial, eh?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

The American Dream of going to work/buying stuff/buying a car/house/raising kids/going out to dinner/etc. is considered racist by all democrats.

 

[Timmy]

The American Dream of going to work/buying stuff/buying a car/house/raising kids/going out to dinner/etc. is considered racist by all democrats.

No. Those people are considered sponges by the conservatives. If you ain't a millioniare , you are scum .

The GOP Union busting has destroyed the American dream.

 

[Indeependent]

Bill Gates, Oracle, IBM, AT&T, GE, Citibank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman-Sachs, Warren Buffet and a few others.

 

[Londoner]

During the postwar years we had liberal economic policies - high wages, solid benefits and a whole spectrum of policies designed to make middle class life affordable, including subsidized college education.

The father could support an entire family on his wages, leaving the mother to raise the kids. This pro-family wage structure is why the fifties was considered the hey-day of American Conservatism (and it's why so many conservative commentators supported the New Deal).

But there was a flaw. The wealthy corporate elite wanted more money. So they purchased a candidate named Ronald Reagan.

Reagan said we needed to repeal the policies that supported the middle class so we could give tax cuts to the wealthy. He declared war on unions (in order to give his corporate donors cheaper labor costs), and then he opened trade so that our capitalists could shift production to much cheaper labor markets in China (which resulted in the de-industrialization of our great cities, followed by massive ghettos of superfluous citizens with no hope).

Of course, Reagan said that the resulting profits (made possible by lower labor costs, tax cuts & deregulation) would trickle down to the middle class.

He lied.

The rich got richer and now American families must work twice as much to survive in a new globalized wage structure where our workers must compete with 3rd world labor markets in freedom hating tyrannies. Now - as a result - we live to work, and we need toxic levels of debt to consume and survive.

To answer the OP's question: we swallowed poison in 1980.

 

[g5000]

This pro-family wage structure is why the fifties was considered the hey-day of American Conservatism (and it's why so many conservative commentators supported the New Deal).

First, the New Deal was the 30s and 40s, not the 50s.



Second, "conservative commentators" did NOT support the New Deal. They absolutely detested it.

In fact, FDR's conservative Vice President, John Nance Garner, was so pissed off at FDR's New Deal, he refused to serve any longer as his VP and even ran against him for the Democratic nomination in 1940.

Some conservative Southern Democrats were so pissed off at the New Deal and the liberal Democrats of the North, they split off and formed a new party (The States' Rights Party) headed by Strom Thurmond. Harry Truman had the political fight of his life winning the 1948 election because of this split.


Third, the heyday of American Conservatism was the 1980s.

 

[MisterBeale]

OMG, you guys will sit there and blame each others partisan political parties, but it makes no difference what party is in power, the banks control everything.

You just don't get it.

World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rules The World
http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-...s-how-the-global-elite-rule-the-world/5353130

 

[Snouter]

"Global Elite" bullshit again. It is The Lobby.