The American Dream is/was just that a dream, not real. What is real, we can choose our own path, make our own choices. Too many choose what they are told they should choose. That is a trap. Yes, there was a robust prosperity in the 50's and 60's but that was just an anomaly from the Post WWII economic situation. If you are not born to the upper-class then you will struggle, even some born to the upper-class struggle.

The struggle got much harder with the bar being raised very high. Two cars, two incomes, childcare, bigger houses, very expensive education, expensive medical insurance, internet, cable, cell phones, travel.

Even if we are not entitled to all that it is still expected.

One subdivision over from where my house is, is an older 1960's community, Crackerbox houses with three bedrooms and a car port, no garage, eat in kitchen, no dining room, tiny living room/family room, no white picket fence, chain-link fence in the backyard. That Amercian Dream was TV fiction.

TEK