I was flipping through the paper this morning (I love reading a real paper), when I saw an Associated Press article which started with this incredible statement.
"These days, the American dream is just that -- a dream. New studies show that children these days will not necessarily be better off economically then their parents."
I really don't think that was ever the American dream -- no one was ever necessarily better off than their parents. Andrew Carnegie, raised in poverty, didn't become a wealthy businessman because that's just the way things happened to him. It's called work, folks.
I sometimes think we're becoming more socialist. Quietly, under the table.
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The dream of children being better off than their parents -- economically and otherwise -- is a design feature that kicks in for most of us when we become parents, whether or not we are Americans. We want our kids not to repeat our mistakes but to learn from them. We want them to achieve more than we did, and we don't want them to suffer what we have suffered. We want them to be wiser, kinder, better educated, more financially secure, better able to contribute to the world around them than we were. Granted, that desire to see one's kids have it better has been distorted by many to mean that instead of being cramped in a 1000 square foot house like we grew up in in the 50's, we hope that our kids get the good life of the 5000 sq. ft. house in Quail Run. And that is missing the boat.
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