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i wanna travel across seas
i want to grow up have a family
most important i want to live my american dream.
i want a good job
some land
pretty house
nice cars
2 kids

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"American Dream", but most want fancy and expensive houses and that is materialism.

I am 61 and want my "American Dream" like my Daddy told me about. Home is safe and security, not a mansion. American is all wrapped up in careers, fancy cars, and homes. Fathers and Mothers are both working to have all these things and their children are wondering what love, safety, security, and family is. I remember what all those things are because I lived in a simpler time when what was suppose to be important was.

Today our children don't know what is important because we buy them anything they want and call that love. I know what love is and the true "American Dream" my Daddy worked so hard to give us. My Daddy taught me what love was by loving me. Daddy died when I was 16 years old, but he made sure we had a love, security, and was safe in our home. His "American Dream".

those enforcing them, need to be changed. The elite need to understand that we are not all one, not in that respect, so their standard of living shouldn't be violently forced on everyone. We can learn to respect each other, but we have to let go of our fear of freedom and attain a respect for life, so we can work to help each other achieve our own paradises, instead of working to oppress one another, but what of those whose paradise includes owning slaves, and what of those that feel the moral obligation to free the slaves?

One thing I do know for sure: those who work to force their way without any regard for freedom and peace will always be at war, and spreading the war.

No society can have one hundred percent of liberty, equality, fairness, happiness, etc., available to all its citizens at all times. But the United States, thanks to our wise founding fathers, comes pretty close to it.

, 56,000 factories closed in the United States and moved to low wage countries, all with $1500-$3000 per "job created" from the American taxpayers, under Bush's policy, not to mention tax credits for shipping the equipment and training the "new" employees.

Obama is no better. The corruption is past the point of return. Read "The Unwinding," by George Packer. This book really lays out exactly where we are and why. Another good read is "Retirement Heist," by Ellen Schultz.

I myself do not buy anything new, am working on going off the grid, and do not buy anything from companies that have stripped there workers to the bone. It is not easy. The off the grid is going slow, but steady. I have cut my electric bill by 42 percent in 6 months and have done it revenue neutral.

I am shopping locally for food at farmers markets and from farmers directly. I have no illusion that things will do anything but keep going in the direction they are going now, but my family is doing the best we can to prepare for the decline. Life insurance is part of the plan.

Anyone who believes that if the poor rich guy just would just get another tax cut or be allowed to pollute without recourse, then all would be well, is completely delusional. Record profits, record poverty, pretty much says it all.

. If your dream contains money, then you have missed what life really is about.

Help those around you, laugh when you can, love with all your being, rejoice in the small things, smile because you can, but most of all enjoy your life, because you never know when it will end.

Issued" idea of what people want. In my eyes, I see it as the wealthy's dream to keep the lower social class happy and optimistic enough to keep them working hard to get to where they are, all while they are growing to an unreachable height.

I'm only 18 years old and I see these things. The dream is gone. We only have the time of now to stand on feet and make what we have last.

American Dream: Be able to afford a nice house by having an upper echelon job.

Be happily married with a wife and a child/children.

Have nice amenities like plumbing and new electronics that were offered from the 1920's.

has to be five pages or something. I'd say my dream is to have a single paragraph count as five pages, then debate it (extensively) with the teacher until they cave. A lot of my teachers hated me, but in the best way possible.

Second, this one is to number 9. This is not intended to be a personal attack, but i feel that somehow it will come across as such. The person who taught this in school is extremely cynical. However, that viewpoint does apply to all greedy people. Not all are so greedy, you just don't notice them for their lack of whining about everything. I once learned in school that the u.s. won the vietnam war. Just in case you learned that too, we lost.

For my last trick, i will attempt to explain what the american dream means to me. At the core, the idea is about progression, the idea that things will get better. If i am lying to myself, it beats being lied to by someone else.

Seriously, it means being kind, decent, and respectful of others no matter what the cost. I'm not talking about being a doormat either. Its about supporting your neighbors and helping someone in need if you can. Helping someone can be as simple as having a two-minute conversation with a complete stranger and just asking them how they are today. This is only one of many ways to show you care about others. I do my best to live up to it, but invariably fall short at times. But life isn't about how many times you fail, it's about the successes! One man made me realize that idea. His name was Thomas Edison. Inventor of the light bulb, something within plain view of all who read this. He failed so many times trying to make it work over many years, but when he had success with it, well, the rest is history. He is not remembered as the guy who wasted years of his life failing at something; he is remembered as the man who invented the incandescent bulb. We should all hope to leave such a mark on humanity.

I didn't really mean for this to be so long but look what happened. Oh well. Cheers, everyone!

yet I think it doesn't compromise it at all.

The catch is the organization. The more organized we all Americans become the closer we will be to reach out for the American Dream.

Once we achieve it, what is next?

I believe it would be to perfect it and to enjoy the fruits coming out of it, for our quota would be done, and next generations will be enhanced and allow newer and better solutions, as long as humanity does not lose the track and does not become egocentric and too greedy to know what is valuable and what is a tool.

To me, money is a tool, I may not be rich, and yet, If i work hard and If I have my bills paid, I may be happy enough to tell I'am satisfied. For some others, it may be a miserable view and a miserable perspective. It is relative to everyone's ambitions! --AC S.

I rather resent the opinion of those that the American Dream can be achieved from working harder. My entire life has been spent working hard and saving at the expense of enjoying the day I was living in. At the end of 20 years after saving every penny, working to the maximum and experiencing very little outside work, what I have to show for these efforts is three emergency visits to the hospital for exhaustion, Where I was advised to take it easy; one hemorrhaged disk, medical bills that I worked even harder to cover and landed myself in the hospital again against much protestation. (I collapsed at work and an ambulance was called) After a few days in the

(which my insurance wouldn't cover) I thought about it.

I've been working my whole life for an unattainable goal. I've robbed myself of 20 years of experiences so that I could be at work to overachieve without award. The whole time I was working and going to school to get a better job. I never got the better job and am still paying back the loans. I was grateful for the opportunity I had to have a job and never questioned that faith to continue killing myself while wearing thrift store bargains and residing in a lower income area and having the marvelous experience of being persecuted for my beliefs.

Life? Liberty? Pursuit of happiness? Well, OK, I have pursued happiness but what happened to equality?

What happened to that dream?

Now, I am in the wonderful position of not having a job because after this last hospitalization I've been diagnosed with degenerative bone disease and a heart condition that is inoperable caused by chronic stress and exhaustion.

I think I can say at this point that I've worked hard enough to attain the dream. The dream still remains elusive.

met more happy people living the dream than not and most were not rich with powerful positions.

You are in control. However, now that you have accepted the agreement your teacher has put in front of you, that you will never be happy, that you will always have to strive for more, because it is your nature and you have no choice or control, it is likely that you won't.

To me the American dream is to have all the necessities of life, including opportunity to have the fruits of your labor. If people work and do not get ahead, do not better themselves, what is the point?

The American dream is to have all the basics that all people share. That means a normal portion of water, food, shelter, clothing, fuel, friends, and opportunities to improve life.

I worry the dream is dying because government is debasing the currency, taxing income, and selling children into debt slavery at far too fast a rate to benefit bond holders and rich people.

I also worry education has become too expensive. No education, no job opportunities other than self employment, which is

risky and tough. K-12 costs $150,000 per student. A four year degree is $160,000 for private school and $80,000 for public with half subsidized by taxpayers. A $300,000 education is too expensive. I worry education has become the new form of segregation and class distinction.

I also worry about racism baked into society. Hebrews send 80 percent of their children to college because that is where the money is. Whites are lower than this. Other minorities send few, if any, children to college. Education is a crisis because we segregate and discriminate by educational level in America and it skews our society to Hebrews and whites. Education has to become cheaper.

The American dream is not embracing diversity or racist affirmative action quotas for Hebrews, Africans, women, homosexuals, immigrants, and minorities. The American dream is merit, doing a good job, well done. The dream is in danger because so many incompetent people have been promoted to meaningless high paying jobs like airport underwear inspectors. Government has to change. It is devouring the American dream.

Yes, having what we have and living life to the fullest is the dream, but the way the world is working, a lot of unemployment is around. How can we make it while we are losing material possesions, bills are racking sky high, and so on. Our happy tank is getting empty while our banking accounts are following. And i'm scared! what is going to happen to the world, as we are in a depression? I'm lucky to be working 16 hours a week but it is not paying my bills, etc. I'm going to school full time in the criminal justice field? will I have a job when I graduate? Over 700 and some more sheriffs just got laid

off due to the recession. But living life to the fullest until it pops is what us Americans have got to do. So to all who are reading, God bless, and anyone who takes offense to that. I'll be praying for all.

. How often do these people get a job which raises them out of poverty, and allows them to actually achieve their goals. The answer is very few.

The ability to do whatever you want is the aspect of the American Dream that we as North Americans have to wake up from. It should be re-written to read. "You can do whatever you want so long as you can afford it and with that we will give you no help." If read that way the "Dream becomes far more reflecting of reality. Minimum $40,000 debt for University, A minimum wage job which doesn't make ends meet. No pension plan, On average some of the worst health care in the developed world (Canada, and low level American Hospitals 18 and 37 Overall Distribution (1997) Respectively). What about that is a Dream to me it is a Nightmare.

come and live in the United States.

To me the American Dream is the liberty offered to its citizens; the freedom to attend school, to start a business, to work, to pray if you want to, and not how many things I own. Material possessions, albeit nice, are not what life and happiness are all about. As a matter of fact happiness is not directly proportional to material possessions. Happiness comes from appreciating and being grateful for what we do have.

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"American Dream", but most want fancy and expensive houses and that is materialism. I am 61 and want my "American Dream" like my Daddy told me about. Home is safe and security, not a mansion. American is all wrapped up in careers, fancy cars, and homes.

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responsibility- is doing what you need to do when it needs to be done.