Posted on 11/01/2024 6:32:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Kamala Harris and other Democrats keep talking about the American Dream, but their conception runs counter to everything those who’ve come here have believed.
Kamala Harris says that “the idea of the American Dream was something that previous generations could count on. Not as much anymore.” She sounds like an astute student of the obvious. When Americans have seen their disposable income go down during her tenure at the Naval Observatory, the obvious question must be, “What makes you think that you know how to do anything about it? But more fundamentally, what is “The American Dream?”
Democrats will come up with enough BS blather that would properly dress one of Kamala’s word salads but really can’t define the phrase. All they see is that grocery carts have become the most expensive vehicles to operate and they propose price controls on the businesses with the smallest operating margins.
Are they really trying to turn the US into Cuba? Wait. I’m sorry. Cuba’s immediate problem isn’t the empty grocery store shelves. It’s an utter failure of the power grid due to…government controls. But that’s a good thing since those coal and oil-fired power plants pollute the air with plant fertilizer—oops—carbon dioxide. But I digress.
Every politician talks about “the American Dream.” But none of them, not even Donald Trump, defines the term. So perhaps we should look to history for answers.
In 1865, Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, famously said, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” There were multiple reasons for the line, but they all revolved around economic opportunity.
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The government should stay out of the way. It is not their job to play momala to the country.
“Kamala Harris and other Democrats keep talking about the American Dream,”
Yeah, they do that because they are flim-flam men talking to their marks.
The RATS, especially the illegal alien foreign RATS, have confused the America Dream with Piggy Socialism. The bastards aren’t wading across the Rio Grande for the news cameras anymore to pick strawberries. They’re coming to “PAHTAY”, live their “better life” off the backs of the American taxpayers and rob Americans of the prosperity they worked so hard to build. “Refugees” never used to go straight to the Cadillac dealer to buy a new Escalade with the Golden Credit Card ticket given to them by the border boyz when they were actually coming here to build their own “better life.” Now it’s given to them in the form of a cellphone ATM by filthy politicians and corrupt FERAL “judges”.
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” -George Carlin
“All they see is that grocery carts have become the most expensive vehicles to operate and they propose price controls on the businesses with the smallest operating margins.”
There are other margins besides those of the grocery stores in the food business.
Consider the price of Lorna Doone cookies.
When I came to Florida in the mid-1990s, I often bought Brach’s candy for $1.49/pound.
The problem of world poverty cannot be solved by fence climbing.
A Mexican can actually lay more concrete blocks in a year in Mexico than in New York City.
“They have the Socialist (or Aristocratic or…) Dream. That’s the idea that the government should steal what you busted your butt to make so they can give it to someone who won’t get off their own butt.”....They give some of it to someone else, the rest they keep for themselves.
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