Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream.
Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
Am also retired now and having worked hard for some 37 years, taking a year or so off every once in a while, traveling quite a lot, am as happy now as I have ever been. And, after my last job getting up at 4 am every weekday, driving 40 minutes to work, an hour to an hour and a half, depending on traffic, on my way home, being on the job for a minimum of 8 hours on site, more if one or other of my two clubs I sponsored were meeting after school which added a minimum of an hour, sometimes 3 or more to the day. Then often grading at home as there is no time to do so during class as I am up around the class teaching ...Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
Retired now and financially secure with no bills and no ties I have come to realize there is no American Dream. Rather, you just live and that is what decades of living teaches us. It's kind of like not getting your favorite toy as a child for Christmas but as you age you forget what that favorite toy was. Maybe not being in prison should be considered enough. Even bums are happy.
It's rhetoric that is used to push political and social agendas.
Somebody here sounds bitter and jealous.
I think people here who have said they are living the American Dream did so by hard work and perseverance,rather than political and social agendas.
You should try it sometime.
So what if it is?:roll:
No, I came to that perspective by watching it be used as a political hammer for years.
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No, I came to that perspective by watching it be used as a political hammer for years.
May I point out that being allowed to achieve one's goals and aspirations is something Libertarians have been hammering for decades.
So is it wrong when Libertarians do it themselves?
May I point out that being allowed to achieve one's goals and aspirations is something Libertarians have been hammering for decades.
So is it wrong when Libertarians do it themselves?
That's your problem,nobody elses.I have no idea what you're talking about.-
The idea of the American dream is rhetoric meant to make people feel better and push political and social goals. That's it.
That's your problem,nobody elses.
Apparently you haven't achieved the American Dream.
Why not?
That's your opinion. I'm sure those of us who have struggled and worked our asses off to make something of ourselves would think differently.
Again,that's just your opinion.Many people believe in that the American Dream exists.I can't achieve something that doesn't objectively exist.
So, believing in being allowed (that's what makes the American Dream,not just hard work,but being allowed to do so) to work hard to succeed is corny to you?That's just you succeeding in life through hard work. You don't need some special label for that like the American Dream. You didn't follow some corny notion like some universal dream that the country shares, but you own dreams and your own ambitions that are unique to you.
Again,that's just your opinion.Many people believe in that the American Dream exists.
Since you don't believe it exists,maybe that's why you haven't achieved it.
So, believing in being allowed (that's what makes the American Dream,not just hard work,but being allowed to do so) to work hard to succeed is corny to you?
If I believe in the American Dream,that's my right to do so.
I decide what I need in life,not you.
When you decided to become a restaurant owner that was you deciding that. When you decided to follow through with it and take the necessary steps to open that restaurant that was again you. When you decided to make it a chain of restaurants and you followed through it by opening even more locations, that was again you. You followed your own dreams and ambitions and worked hard to make it into a reality. What you have in your life is from your own work and your own desire, not some abstract dream that is larger than you. The society around you that you used to your benefit to reach your goals isn't the consequence of the American dream either, but a consequence of many different dreams and ambitions all coming together to form what is known as the economy.
Somebody here sounds bitter and jealous.
I think people here who have said they are living the American Dream did so by hard work and perseverance,rather than political and social agendas.
You should try it sometime.
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