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The Dream Is Dying
AT ^ | 7-21-12 | Kenneth L Hanson

Posted on 07/22/2012 7:34:42 AM PDT by Dysart

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Tell a story? Well, there are a lot of us these days who have stories to tell. And far from reflecting unity, purpose, and optimism, these are testimonials to another sad reality: the "American dream" -- at least under the Obama administration -- is dying.

My story is not that special, though it is unique in some ways. My wife is a medical doctor from the former Soviet Union -- as smart as she is beautiful. A surgeon by training (holding a Ph.D. in medicine on top of her M.D.), not only is she extremely capable as a hands-on physician, but she is also a businesswoman. Being a doctor has always meant everything to her, but she also knew that state-employed doctors in Russia earn on average only about $400 a month. She, however, had enough of an entrepreneurial spirit that, after practicing many years in emergency rooms and in cardiovascular surgery, she established her own plastic surgery clinic in the heart of Siberia.

Over time, she was grossing a "respectable" $2,000 a month. When we married and she came to America, I was thrilled to bring her to the "land of opportunity," where, as a doctor, she could earn multiple times her Russian income.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dream; dying; obamacare
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To: dragnet2

How come you won’t answer the questions I asked you?


61 posted on 07/23/2012 10:49:14 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: dragnet2

Are you a conservative or just a troll?


62 posted on 07/23/2012 10:50:20 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa
How come you won’t answer the questions I asked you?

Are you asking who I am personally voting for?

63 posted on 07/23/2012 11:02:32 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: jmacusa
Are you a conservative or just a troll?

Lets see, you walk in here in 2010 and ask if I'm a troll?

Too funny.

Got computer? Look up my posting history slick.

64 posted on 07/23/2012 11:04:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

I’m simply asking if you intend to vote at all, what if anything you plan to do about the situation you’re going on about or do you just plan to bitch bitch and moan. I voter and when something pisses me off I’m on the phone to my congressman, and why not? I’m paying for the s.o.b to represent me and he’s a Republican. And what a perfectly eight-grade attitude with the ‘’newbie’’ subtext. Tell you what ‘’slick’’ f it all together. I’ve never encountered a more negative cuss in all my life than you. Have a nice life ‘’slick’’.


65 posted on 07/24/2012 1:14:16 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa
I voter and when something pisses me off I’m on the phone to my congressman

Well that's very commendable. Do you actually get him on the phone?

66 posted on 07/24/2012 1:42:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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