Originally Posted by Shotsie

On a more serious note, Fact: Among all Western democracies, the US now has the lowest level of mobility between social classes. In this country more than any other in the West, where you are born largely predetermines where you die. The American ideal of upward mobility and the reward of hard work is ever more a lie, STATISTCALLY. Recounting myths about "acres of diamonds" in ignorance of actual facts can’t make them any more true.