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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:02 AM Original message |
What is the "American Dream"? |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. For me the American Dream would be an existence that didn't |
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DBusch (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Los Angeles --No American Dream Anymore --Full of Homeless Hysteria |
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elias49 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Be careful. People will start calling you a Socialist |
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Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. The American Dream is the myth that... |
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Democracyinkind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. For me the American Dream is the one fiction that is keeping us from actually getting forward. |
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Anakin Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. Dusty Rhodes? |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. your comment needs this... |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
6. It's a marketing term used to sell stuff. n/t |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. An illusion. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
10. "little pink houses for you and me"! |
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uncommon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. Something I am unlikely to ever achieve. |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. Ditto. I will never be able to buy a home or have any savings. |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
12. Dead, at the present moment, but |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
13. Wasn't it coined in the 1930s as part of the whole "sucker people into 30 Yr mortgages" |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
14. Winning American Idol? |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
15. Propaganda, plain and simple. |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. I suspect you're either young... |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I am an American and I am not young. |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. That was why I said |
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Cal Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. And that's why it doesn't exist. Unleess you call it the White American Dream |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Umm...No. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
16. In theory it's what it's always been |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. please refer to george carlin american dream on youtube nt |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 01:32 PM Response to Reply #17 |
37. Is George Carlin the "last word" on all things? |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
18. More like a nightmare. nt |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
19. Some good responses here. OP has some good points too. nt |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
20. Property. Somewhere along the line, it turned into property and affluence. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. It used to mean knowing that your children would be better off than you are. |
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Froward69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
22. American Dream = Opportunity to succeed |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Yes, and it was best embodied by Roosevelt's "New Deal" program. |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
23. To crush your enemies See them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Quick question: what do "barbarians" use as a depilatory/moisturizor? |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 01:07 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Bear fat |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
26. You work a job for 40 hours per week. |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
29. The American Dream is ... |
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steelmania75 (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
34. It's just an allusion rich people like to give the foolish working people and convince them to |
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whathehell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. I think you mean "illusion" |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-13-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
38. The undying belief that participating in the rat-race is moral and beneficial. |
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