What Is Happening To The American Dream?
You are a financially responsible person, and a hard working one, at that. You study and prepare for all of your youth, eventually graduating high school. This is very exciting, as you are the first in your family to get their diploma. After interviewing you land a position as a milk delivery driver, ferrying truckloads of milk to people’s doorsteps. You fall in love and get married, buy a large piece of land in the suburbs, and have a large family. Your family lives comfortably off of your salary alone, and through your hard work you’re able to put your kids through high school and eventually college. This is the American Dream.
This is no longer a reality in America.
For the last century, the United States of America has engaged in undisciplined monetary and fiscal policy – which has left the American citizen working harder than ever, while losing more of their wealth on a yearly basis than ever before. The Federal Reserve Board has become addicted to the money printer since its inception just before WWI. Conceived to have more central control over the country’s circulating money supply, they quickly found that debasing the currency to finance wartime efforts was easier than sticking to setting interest rates. This addiction became the match that would burn down the value of the United states dollar for over a century to come. In addition, the United States Congress has devolved into a group of people who decide what to throw…
