Is it possible to achieve the american dream without stealing or breaking the law?

[pico]

i say no. horatio alger is all bullshit

[Willie Bee]

Guess it all depends on what your American dream is, pico, as well as what constitutes breaking the law.

[bigboydan]

People achieve it all the time Pico. Why just last week somebody won the lotto.

[pico]

making it and getting lucky are different. the lotto winner will probably blew most of it on jim bean and scratch tickets.

[smitch124]

I like to call it involuntary lending...

[betplom]

People achieve it all the time Pico. Why just last week somebody won the lotto.

The Lotto is available in most if not all industrialized countries, "American Dream" is a misnomer, and propaganda, EVERYONE in the world wants a better life, nothing American about it.

Pico, for you it would be the Canadian dream, you're not American anyway.

[nosniboR11]

Well get off you ass and go to college, lazy gamblers

[Masu485]

Nooo, unless you're genetically gifted, either with looks or intelligence.

[poetwarrior41]

A top notch education will get the ball rolling for sure! If you dont possess a college degree these days, i think your pretty much living check to check.

[poetwarrior41]

Well get off you ass and go to college, lazy gamblers

Best post of the week!

[Willie Bee]

A top notch education will get the ball rolling for sure! If you dont possess a college degree these days, i think your pretty much living check to check.

Oh lord, not this conversation again I know plenty of folks who don't have a college degree and are doing just fine right now. And I know college graduates that can't manage their money at all, earn twice what their neighbors do and are still scraping together a mortgage payment each month.

[jjgold]

American Dream is being healthy not having money

[treece]

A top notch education will get the ball rolling for sure! If you dont possess a college degree these days, i think your pretty much living check to check.

Most people with college degrees are in big time debt.

[durito]

Most people with college degrees are in big time debt.

Isn't that the American dream?


Big house (bigger mortgage), Big Car (car loan), 12 credit cards, student loans....

[HedgeHog]

Very few can. Technically I break the law by gambling each day, so my dream has been achieved illegally. Also, Mexicans cross the US border every day. They too break the law in reaching their goal. Good question, Pico.

[RageWizard]

Of course you don't need to cheat or steal to get the American dream, and you don't need to be well educated either. You just need to be in the right place at the right time. For instance, if while riding the subway, it goes flying off the track and everybody gets killed except you because you happen to sit next to the fat guy and where able to use him as a pillow to cushion the impact, congrats, you just made the american dream, call 7 savage jewish lawyers, sick back and wait to collect.

[treece]

I want to achieve the Colombian dream. Pablo Escobar style.

[Tsoprano]

A top notch education will get the ball rolling for sure! If you dont possess a college degree these days, i think your pretty much living check to check.

Depends. If you mean for everyone, I highly disagree.

I've got lots of college kids coming to me for work daily.

Your mind is what gets you places in this world, not a paper saying you did it someone else's way for an extra 4 years. In most cases though, a college degree is the only form of acceptance in most fields.

[pico]

i think behind every successful man in america, there is a jewish banker and/or lawyer

[HedgeHog]

You show me any millionaire/billionaire and I'll show you a tax cheat. People hide income and under pay taxes. That's how to get ahead, or so I've heard.

[HedgeHog]

BTW, I'd like to achieve my wet dream from last night. Unfortunately, I suspect it may involve some illegal activity, too.

[bleuze]

Yes, politicians with their offshore bank accounts, tax returns, and offshore rentals. Why do you think they spend millions for a job that pays less than $300,000!!!!