How Bush Killed the American Dream

I believe it was the late George Carlin that once said "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

 

"The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

 

Hmmm, no High School Diploma "he dropped out" , dishonorable discharge from the AirForce, went on to win 4 Grammy Awards and made 20 Million+ "as a comedian, not working a 9 to 5" NOT only did he believe it , he lived it.

 

Perhaps we can echo the words spoken by JFK- "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

9-11 did Bush such a HUGE favor it's hard not to wonder if his administration knew about it and allowed it to happen. I'm not entirely convinced that wasn't the case but prefer to believe that they weren't complicit because that would constitute an overt act of aggression of the government against its innocent citizens.

The attacks cultivated a fear in much of the population that the Bush Syndicate nurtured like a victory garden and exploited to discourage any real opposition to his assault on the constitution and our freedoms and basic rights. It also paved the way for the violation of international law taking place in Iraq. Worse, the fear planted in so many caused them to assume that opposition to the assaults on our freedoms and privacy would be treasonous and un-American.

We were fearful of an enemy we thought we couldn't see but what many did not realize that we were looking at the enemy himself as he gave a state of the union address or press conference. This enemy has many faces and has attacked all phases of daily life- including our prosperity. The deregulation orgy that has been a hallmark of the past eight years has seen the wealthiest reach so far into our pockets that the consumer end of the economy is all but dead. The military and corporate regime that has robbed the middle class and destroyed America's global reputation and lost international respect need to be tried as the criminals they are.

I do not envy Barrack Obama- he has an immense job to do but with our help he may well succeed.

 

Do you support this definition? Because it's the best argument for very steep estate tax. It's what Republicans tried to get repealed by calling it the "death tax" and lobbying for creation of a new aristocracy.

 

one small sticking point: had the banks failed, the debt would not have been erased. It would have been sold at auction, as per bankruptcy law.

 

Of course, why do you think i posted it ?

If you say so,

 

my eye was drawn to that last sentence.

 

Do you think Obama is living the American Dream ?

I know I am....

 

I do think Obama is living the American dream. I think the America dream is alive but suffering traumatic injury.

It's up to US to save it. Freedom is not free.

 

Few words ring truer.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" -Thomas Jefferson

We bear some responsibility to be vigilant by seeing to it that those newly installed do not exploit the chaos and defining that price in terms of wealth and further disenfranchising middle America. Our job BEGINS with clearing house in Washing ton but it doesn't end after the polls close.

 

Who's some?

After reading your post, I think you are part of that ''some'', but don't have the balls to come out and say it?

United We Stand?...lol

I'll stand behind Obama, like you stood behind President Bush.

Are you paying attention????

Or are you just ranting like Keith Olbermann, the crazy lunatic of so called ''journalism'', who just reports one side views and calls it ''news''?

News Flash: Obama wants to pull out of Iraq, and turn Iraq back over to terrorists (who want and will try to destroy America!), and send troops to Afghanistan.

Again...let this soak ...and read it slow: Obama...wants to send American troops...to ''the blood soaked sands of Afghanistan.''

So, Obama is a war monger, like Bush and Cheney, right?

C'mon...say it....admit it.

You voted blindly for ''change''....but, unfortunately it will be ''change'' for the worst. You don't know who Barack Obama is. You only know what the liberal media has told you who he is. Obama was protected by the liberal media prior to the election. No one questioned Obama or his past.

Now read, what I posted last week in one of your threads, about how Obama is going to destroy the ''America Dream''

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showpost.php?p=4913684&postcount=32

 

After 9/11, our whole country stood behind Bush, and the world was eager to do the same. His approval ratings were above 90%. It was the subsequent stumbling and bumbling, and unilateralist neocon warmongering that turned public opinion.

So if by "standing behind bush like you stood behind obama" you meant "giving him the benefit of the doubt until you have overwhelming evidence that your trust is misplaced", then our country will surely recover.

As for Keith Olberman, why are you talking about candy when the topic is food? It makes as much sense as bringing up Bill O'Reilly. Neither is news. It's partisan entertainment.

 

CHINA.

 

no one WANTED to price it, because the truth was painful. I am well aware of the chinese action that just took place, and they may just have saved our asses.

Why would the chinese buy our debt? because they own so many of our dollars. they can't afford to see the US economy tank.

not yet.