Who Stole The American Dream? Reading Recommended (regular, politicians, economic)

[AdrianPetersonRules]

EXCELLENT book! Half way through it now and I highly recommend it!

Hedrick Smith** Who Stole the American Dream?

[Prytania]

What is the American Dream anyhow?

[steven_h]

Originally Posted by Prytania

What is the American Dream anyhow?

It's a thing that Wall Street, bankers, hedge fund managers, and high frequency trading software (along with colluding politicians) stole.

[AdrianPetersonRules]

Originally Posted by steven_h

It's a thing that Wall Street, bankers, hedge fund managers, and high frequency trading software (along with colluding politicians) stole.

That's a good summation steven!

[Tenured]

The American Dream is being able to afford a small enough land so you have enough space to grow food to eat and have some over to barter.

[Dayton Sux]

Hedrick Smith used to be a regular on Washington Week in Review, so was a member in good standing of "consensus reality", the mainstream media establishment and their POV.

Sounds like he's "gone off the reservation", as they say.

[2nd trick op]

It's the same old - same old that panders to losers who want someone to blame for the workings of an economic system that NOBODY can control.

Americans enjoyed both the world's highest standard of living and the ability to prolong it for about 25 years after the end of World war II simply because the rest of the world didn't have much of an industrial base left. But eventually the rest of the world caught up and we now have to compete.

And that means that there won't be any cushy $30/hour jobs for somebody just because they posses a union card.

And that we can not indefinitely expand a public sector beyond the capacity of the private sector to support it.

Whine as much and as loudly as you like, my children. Most of us will still have to get up and go to work producing something that someone actually wants to buy.

[AdrianPetersonRules]

Originally Posted by Dayton Sux

Hedrick Smith used to be a regular on Washington Week in Review, so was a member in good standing of "consensus reality", the mainstream media establishment and their POV.

Sounds like he's "gone off the reservation", as they say.

You read the book?

[AdrianPetersonRules]

Originally Posted by 2nd trick op

It's the same old - same old that panders to losers who want someone to blame for the workings of an economic system that NOBODY can control.

Not true - you read the book?

[petch751]

Originally Posted by Prytania

What is the American Dream anyhow?

Something that requires work and brains.