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rhett o rick

(55,981 posts) Wed Jul 3, 2013, 09:34 AM Jul 2013

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The American Dream – Used to be an average American family wanted [View all]

a 40 hour per week job for the bread winner with two weeks vacation, a couple of kids, a modest house to own in 20 years, money for the kid’s college, and a modest retirement allotment.

That dream started to die in the 1970’s with the rise of the Conservative Conspiracy (please forgive the use of the C-word but it’s true, but that’s another OP).

Today the American dream is to win the lottery and be one of the 1%. One of the beautiful people we are bombarded with every day on Corp-Media.

Lotteries are the most repressive form of taxation. They get their money from those who can least afford it.

The new American dream – If you want to escape poverty, buy a lottery ticket and pray.

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The American Dream – Used to be an average American family wanted [View all] rhett o rick Jul 2013 OP

And what are the odds of winning? roody Jul 2013 #1

Statistically, zero. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #2

Probably just a little worse than the odds of a comfortable retirement in 2013 America. HughBeaumont Jul 2013 #3

America has always left millions behind when it comes to prosperity Politicub Jul 2013 #4

Reality has little interest in being therapeutic. nt Romulus Quirinus Jul 2013 #12

I don't think so .... oldhippie Jul 2013 #5

At one time we had a thriving middle class and poverty was shrinking. There was a dream that hard rhett o rick Jul 2013 #8

Lotteries are for losers PsychoBunny Jul 2013 #6

They're a tax on poor math skills (nt) Recursion Jul 2013 #7

Well put. I found myself at the age of 72 recognizing the first and living the second through my jwirr Jul 2013 #9

People still dream of that n2doc Jul 2013 #10

"The American Dream nowadays is to be a successful Grifter." Better odds than the lottery. nm rhett o rick Jul 2013 #11

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