| Is the American Dream becoming a thing of the past>?
Posted: 2/10/2006 7:20:15 AM | I saw a show recently in which this was discussed. There are many 2 parent households, both college educated, who are losing their jobs to overseas workers who will work for "much" less, to temporary or part time workers who don't have to be given benefits, as well as automation. These people not only suffer the loss of their jobs, but benefits.
It was "Feed the Children", which used to inflame me, I'll admit. It seems we've been so busy feeding children in other countries that we've forgotten about our own. It's about time we started looking seriously at poverty here in the US. Every 43 seconds a child in this country is born into poverty and between 1999 and 2004, 13% of American families admitted to not being able to feed "every person" in the household "all the time"...
Time to start taking care of our own~~ | |
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| Is the American Dream becoming a thing of the past>?
Posted: 2/10/2006 7:57:02 AM | It's been a problem for a long time, but the American Dream is not dead. It's just more difficult to achieve than in the past (not that it was easy in the past either).
Poverty will get a little worse before it gets better. The war is still being funded, and it costs a lot of money. I'm not going to address whether it's right or wrong, but this is the situation, as citizens, in which we find ourselves.
But poverty will always be a hot topic and a complex one. There are those who feel that putting tax money in this direction does little for the country as a whole, and it does nothing for the economy; and that's not a bad argument. And then there are those who believe that the government has a moral obligation to take care of these people because they are citizens, which is another good argument.
It would be nice if the government and private business could work together and do what needs to be done; for example the government offers to match private dollars meant for welfare that private businesses and individuals donate as well as use the donations as tax write-offs. At that point, everybody wins. Currently, donations can be penciled in as a tax write-off, but the government does not match funds--which has to do with the budget (you gotta budget everything in advance). And I'd really like to see welfare privatized and controlled by a business because there is so much wasted money on governmental bureaucracy.
Anyway, I'm just rambling at this point . . . | |
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