Change To Win: Survey Shows American Dream Slipping Away

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Change To Win: Survey Shows American Dream Slipping Away - 08/31/06

By Doug Cunningham

The American Dream may not be dead but the Change To Win labor federation says a new poll shows it’s slipping away. A majority of Americans now believe their children are going to be worse off economically than they are, according to the American Dream Survey. The survey finds a majority of workers say their number one issue is that wages are not keeping up with the real cost of living. More than a third have been forced to go into debt for necessities and more than half expect to work longer before retiring. A substantial majority in the survey think the American Dream can be restored by joining together with other workers in unions.

The past two generations are the first, and only two generations in AMerican hisory where the children cannot expect to have it as good as their parents generation. And it's not because technology has stalled economic progress, or the economy hasn't grown. It's just the way they've stacked the deck.

Time for another New Deal.

Ronald Reagan first proposed a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico in his 1980 presidential campaign. Since that time, The Heritage Foundation is proud of the role it has played in articulating President Reagan's vision of free trade in Latin America and around the world. Since the mid-1980s, Heritage analysts have been stressing that a free trade agreement with Mexico not only will stimulate economic growth in the U.S., but will make Mexico a more stable and prosperous country. Heritage has published over three dozen studies stressing the benefits of free trade in North America.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/EM371.cfm

Bush 41, too

Bush's government, along with the Progressive Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, spearheaded the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)



NAFTA Initialing Ceremony, October 1992. From left to right: (standing) President Carlos Salinas, President Bush, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; (seated) Jaime Serra Puche, Carla Hills, Michael Wilson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_h.w._bush#NAFTA

unions are a pretty big part of the solution, though.

It's just bullshit that was fed to the U.S. public after WWII to help prop up the economy in contrast to the soviet way of life.

The American dream by any definition is unattainable. It's nothing but propaganda bullshit.

If you take away that concept what do you have? A society that has to function, live and work, just like any other society, but if you put a fancy label on it with an impossible ad promotion, it suddenly becomes the American dream.

Here's the real American dream. Affordable healthcare, affordable meds, solid programs for the poor, education for everyone, living wages, the ability to feed ones family, and lastly but certainly not least: Peace.