Reinventing the American Dream, Abroad!
August 03, 2011 at 14:00 PM EDT
The late George Carlin, the outspoken and controversial comedian and modern day philosopher, said it best: "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it." Well these days that’s certainly true. America’s forefathers and the first colonists risked everything to escape tyranny in Britain, and they fled to the New World to form ‘a more perfect union.’ So what has happened in the last 235 years that has brought the United States to the sorry condition it’s in today? New American Nightmare First, it’s important to define what exactly the “American Dream” is anyway? Many people nowadays may not even know. In fact, . . . → Read More: Reinventing the American Dream, Abroad!