What happened to the American Dream?

Big Government regulations and entitlement addiction crushed it.

Nothing has changed....the "American Dream" is still very much alive for that small percentage of people (and it has ALWAYS been a small percentage) will to get up off their behinds and go for it....the notion that people today are any lazier or have any greater a sense of entitlement than they ever have crumbles upon inspection.....would you agree with the quote "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."?

Socrates said that some time around 450 BCE...

Nothing changes.

What happened to the American dream?

The top 1% of self entitled Americans and corporate greed and corporate welfare has usurped it and left it virtually impossible to live anymore. Go ahead and blame the poor. The rich just keep getting richer and hoarding all that wealth while convincing you it's the poor that are to blame.

People now realize that the dream of moving up the corporate ladder was a cruel lie, sold to them by the ruling class. Our statistics on social mobility are even worse now than they were in the past. It's the inevitable outcome of unchecked capitalism.

America is still the land of opportunities and making your own way, but half the people are too lazy to take advantage of all the gifts offered them except for public assistance.

now you have 18 year olds that want to start out as managers

at my company, we always promote from within, but we have a hard time getting employees to even apply for opening

they want the way, but no responsibility at all

They won't let america sleep so how can it dream to much ruckus nationwide

Better question why does yahoo delete racist questions directed to whites but not black riddle me that

It got flushed down the toilet like every thing else that was positive in this country

Yeah, my grandparents emigrated here to make it up the corporate ladder. What a stupid idea that is. They got a job and got by, corporate ladder my ***!

Each generation gets lazier and lazier with the technology we have