american dream
Zac Maret
The American Dream was once a belief that where if you worked hard and went to school you can succeed and go into your dream job, get married, by a house and have kids and live life happily ever after. Now a days you can’t get a job that you majored in when you went to college right away you have a better shot of getting a job making pizzas. So what happened to the American Dream? It died just like this country eventually will. Three reasons that the American Dream is dead are: the economy is poor; the government is bad, and the educational opportunities are diminishing. One reason that the American Dream is dead is because the economy is poor. In the article The American Dream is Dead its states that “35% of respondents said they had spent retirement or personal savings to supplement their wages.” That’s because of the economy is bad and they don’t want to lose their houses. That article also states that “The homeownership rate in America is now at its lowest level in nearly 18 years.” Also in the article it says “49% of all Americans live in a home in which one or more residents receive monetary benefits from one or more government programs (i.e. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps). Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.” Another reason why the American Dream is dead is because the government is poor. The government is so bad that in the past they had to shut it down because they couldn’t agree on a spending bill to help run the government. Like what government shut itself down because they couldn’t agree on a bill to help them run a poor one. In the article The American Dream is Dead; Long Live the New Dream it says “the government is destroying the American Dream by putting so many taxes on the middle class.” Another reason why the government is bad is because they all these companies go overseas and that means people lost their
The American Dream was once a belief that where if you worked hard and went to school you can succeed and go into your dream job, get married, by a house and have kids and live life happily ever after. Now a days you can’t get a job that you majored in when you went to college right away you have a better shot of getting a job making pizzas. So what happened to the American Dream? It died just like this country eventually will. Three reasons that the American Dream is dead are: the economy is poor; the government is bad, and the educational opportunities are diminishing. One reason that the American Dream is dead is because the economy is poor. In the article The American Dream is Dead its states that “35% of respondents said they had spent retirement or personal savings to supplement their wages.” That’s because of the economy is bad and they don’t want to lose their houses. That article also states that “The homeownership rate in America is now at its lowest level in nearly 18 years.” Also in the article it says “49% of all Americans live in a home in which one or more residents receive monetary benefits from one or more government programs (i.e. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps). Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.” Another reason why the American Dream is dead is because the government is poor. The government is so bad that in the past they had to shut it down because they couldn’t agree on a spending bill to help run the government. Like what government shut itself down because they couldn’t agree on a bill to help them run a poor one. In the article The American Dream is Dead; Long Live the New Dream it says “the government is destroying the American Dream by putting so many taxes on the middle class.” Another reason why the government is bad is because they all these companies go overseas and that means people lost their