Is The American Dream Dead?

Is the American Dream dead?
The American Dream is the idea of having every U.S citizen equal opportunities to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination and initiative. The meaning behind the American dream is simply work hard and in the end you will be awarded with wealth and a promising future. An example of that would be Uncle Sam stating to the American people “if you work hard, played by the rules you can make a better life for your family” also mentioning that there will be a raise in jobs and better wages and telling businesses not to interfere. The problem were the CEO’s of big corporations of Wall-Street wanted a piece of the bill regarding jobs. Leading them to rewrite everything and “De-Taxing them by taken

away income taxes, capital gain taxes, and top marginal income taxes, De-Unionized by pushing the Labor movement” (Dream). James Truslow Adams in his book “The Epic of American” written in 1931 says “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunities for each person according to ability or achievement” (Kiger 1). The reason this is so important not only towards the American people but also teenagers and immigrants. Each group has they're own opinion on whether or not the American Dream is really dead or not and most people would say is it.
The US citizens will say no the American dream is not dead because they themselves started with nothing and over the years have become more and more wealthy.

Some argue that Americans have the advantage for being wealthy and financially well because their families support them in everything they do. Needless to say not every American has the advantages but they still have more opportunities then someone who has recently came from another country. On the website of CNN Money there is an article stating that “Blacks, Hispanics and Asians are more likely to feel the American Dream is alive and well” (Luhby 2). The strange part of the article is the voting poll showing that 19% of whites think the American dream is alive and well while the other 81% think the dream is suffering. Most of the population of Americans say the dream is dead and gone because of the younger generation not taking advantage of any chances we get or not seeing the open door to a better future. The real reason the American Dream is really dead is not because of lack of chance but more of a broken

system.
The American dream is between dead or not possible to achieve. It has become financially impossible for the people to have a “living wage, retirement security, the opportunity for one’s children to get ahead in life-are now unreachable for all but the wealthiest among us”(Eskow 1). Most of the country cannot live financially if they are worried about insurances, bills, low wages, medical care, and things for themselves. Does not matter whether the person is in the middle class because there will still be some type of money to they owe. For a parent it has become harder because the American dream also let one of the two parents work and the other could have stayed home. Now that has become harder because jobs with low wages do not give the worker enough to support they’re families. If this parent is a immigrant they have no type of social security, papers, or work permit the majority of immigrant will have a work permit but what about the others? They are stuck with the more tougher jobs and ones that will not pay enough for what they do. Work permits means the person can live and work in the USA but if they were to break the law they will be deported. With a work permit the only real jobs if someone was to recently come into the Untied states would have to be construction or fast food. With time the wages become higher and higher but if they were to have a family it will become harder because the bills will start stacking up and now the paycheck will not be enough.
The dream mention many times is equality and supporting themselves for a better future. For the students who have parents whom are immigrants does not become any easier for them because the government does not support either the parent or the student. For that student their dream was to start from nothing to do something amazing with their lives but that was not the case for many foreign students. What was yet to come could go two ways, In the past few years students have been noted to be deported after their graduation with no real way around the notice by Homeland security. The president himself has said over and over again that deporting immigrants are not in his control and does not directly target students. Many of the students who are brave enough to speak have been students who top of their class and want to find a way to not be sent away even when they basically lived in the United States. The other thing that could happen is that after graduating families can not pay off the debt before or after college. “Student debt is crushing a generation of non-wealthy Americans” (Eskow 2). This is something every parent goes through and that is not to say you have to be rich to afford a college education “unless you want to begin your career with a mountain of debt” (Eskow 3).
It is surprising that even the smartest childern can have their own American dream destroyed.
Many say the people of the United states do not work together as a whole.

The problem begins with trust in the government, many want to believe in the government because it can create jobs for the millions. The people do not want to be told something and then be lied to the economy as itself is killing the american dream. The Americans need the poor people to work for rich people so the rich can live the dream and the poor can just dream. Our socialy now believes the dream is if you are not rich you have not lived the so called “American Dream”. To begin with the dream was mostly started with James Truslow mentioning in his book saying that life should be richer and fuller for everyone. In others everyone should have the same opportunities, chances, and ways to become financially stable for the future. After World War 2 when the troops came home they were promised to be able to get a job, support they're families and be able to afford a house for themselves. They were told they were going to living good for their services and that was the case for a couple of months. The American dream back than was define as to grow into weath and become suitable with their lives and not have to worry about a lot. The problem with becoming comfrantable with what they are is not trying to become well of, it is trying to be sure they have enough to support themselves and family because if someone cannot become financially well they are not going to be able to live a good life. The fear of

being bankrupt, jobless, or even homeless is high because the people do not want to feel hopless. American dream is dead and gone but only because there is no way to give equal rights to everyone, there is no way to insure wealth. The only thing the dream is good for is just dreaming because all though you do have to work hard to become financially stable you will have to face the many things to get to a point to where someone can live off check to check. As of right now in this day and age what was once something everyone want has turn into something that has simply gone.