The Death of the American Dream

Has the American dream change? Are we still as free as we once were? Or perhaps our future is slipping away like so many of our leaders are leading us to believe. The majority of the fears and anxieties about our future stems from the Sub-prime mortgage crash, and the recession that followed. With high unemployment, and general fear of the economy, is the American dream still obtainable? You hear the Right proclaiming the need to cut back on taxation and regulation of our nations businesses and economic structure. The Left fight to further control the factors that led to this economic situation in order to, in there few, give the American dream to everyone. But who is right? Or is it already to late.

As one of my previous posts stated my generation feels that so much of our world is beyond our control and they feel that success is more of a roll of the dice then the reward of hard work and elbow grease. Why would we care about what its beyond our control? Why believe in the American dream if we are not masters of our own fate? In college and in high school I had the view that we are all victims constantly pounded into my head. You will never go to college unless you went to a rich school they said, you will only be successful if your born into the right family and right race. There once was the view that we we're all created equal, but know the common view is that we are all made equal, by the government or other organizations. If that is true then the American dream is indeed dead. For we are no longer captains of our fate.  "A 30-year-old recent law school graduate said he had made use of student loans to go back to school in order to pursue a career in public service. Now he can't even pay the interest payment on those loans now."  Washington Post 
Can the American dream once again be realized? Will our generation one again recapture the hope and the pride that once was the American dream?