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Showing Original Post only (View all)I cannot do it. [View all]
I cannot in all consciousness support an economic platform that relies on the assumed benevolence of the wealthy, the hope that a business will pan out to a sustainable fruition, the demand that children finance a high-interest mortgage merely for their economic advancement, the vanquishing of an underfunded but highly necessary social safety net, and most laughably, the almost sarcastic assurance that an individual's "gumption and hard work" will save them despite the sheer lack of solutions as to how that's going to happen.
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The Am dream promised by so many, is less hopeful thinking and more delusion.
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#1
Success in the US for most is a delusion. Some great CEOs and like have said in today's
RKP5637
Aug 2015
#2
Not to mention the Boehner Congress is still controlling the purse strings and not going anywhere.
HughBeaumont
Aug 2015
#6
Who's asking you to? If it's a Democrat, shouldn't this be in GD:P? (nt)
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2015
#7
"This economic platform seems to be ubiquitous, no matter if it's a President ...
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2015
#31
For many guys like myself, the "American dream" didn't amount to my becoming wealthy at any
brewens
Aug 2015
#14
And that's why they make news . . . because even living wage Horatio Alger stories are pretty rare.
HughBeaumont
Aug 2015
#16
But, welfare reform will keep people working, keep them from substituting laziness for hard work,
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#18
I'd like basic human rights not to be commoditized, made economically quantifiable or politicized.
HughBeaumont
Aug 2015
#32
More likely they will say: Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons? -nt
Liberal Veteran
Aug 2015
#23
You shouldn't assume anyone's benevolence. The same sociopath's that occupy boardrooms
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#29
"They call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it!"
reformist2
Aug 2015
#30