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Originally Posted by Rochard
A lot of people seem to think this....
It's 6:20pm PST and I am still here working, on a Friday, 12 hours... I just got rid of my wife and kid so I can pump out another two hours.... You want, it's yours, but you are going to have earn it.
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Yes, of course. But it's increasingly difficult to do so. We're going in the wrong direction. The middle class IS shrinking. The gap between rich and poor IS widening. Social mobility IS less and less attainable. Why is that a good thing? As someone who cares about more than just my own lot in life, I find it disturbing.
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WASHINGTON ? Benjamin Franklin did it. Henry Ford did it. And American life is built on the faith that others can do it, too: rise from humble origins to economic heights. ?Movin? on up,? George Jefferson-style, is not only a sitcom song but a civil religion.
But many researchers have reached a conclusion that turns conventional wisdom on its head: Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe. The mobility gap has been widely discussed in academic circles, but a sour season of mass unemployment and street protests has moved the discussion toward center stage.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us...anted=all&_r=0
Here's Dumbya's own brother on the subject:
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush Tuesday described the growing economic chasm between rich and poor as "un-American" and called it the biggest "structural" problem facing the nation on Tuesday.
"Going forward, we have to deal with our longer structural problems. The biggest one, as far as I'm concerned, is that we're no longer socially mobile as a country," Bush said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
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http://www.newsmax.com/US/Bush-socia...3/05/id/493237
And the "American Dream" comment aside, the article is spot on.