Is the American Dream dead?

[Gregg]

Noone actualy has all these advantages do they? Maybe Mitt Romney?

And Barack Obama.

What do we define as "The American Dream"?

And that's where this kind of discussion can get kind of silly. What we need to do is provide opportunity for people to define and then chase whatever their version of that dream is. The pursuit of happiness? Anyway, the government and the rest of society simply should not be putting up roadblocks for anyone who is striving for their dream (with all the usual 'don't hurt anyone else' safety measures in place, of course). Let them go, it will benefit us all.

Entitlement -- the belief that you did deserve something -- is a change that started with our parents, who expected Social Security and Medicare to pay out well beyond anything they had paid in. It's an expectation brought on by a long tail of prosperity fueled by cheap resources that led workers to believe they would always be paid more next year.

+1 Yea, its going to suck when the cheap resources gravy train ends, but it has to sooner or later.