Popular Culture or Myth Making the American Way
The Great American Home is being foreclosed.
Today’s society believes we all deserve and are entitled to live the American Dream of Home ownership. No longer do individuals correlate hard work and saving for the future down payment, mortgage, insurance and upkeep; people actually believe the home is a right bestowed on them by some god or government. When the poor and unemployed see TV commercials about no money down, pay no interest for five years, bad credit, no credit home loans they can not conceptualize that the loan must be repaid by them and them alone.
Figure 1 American Home Loan Closed
The poor/welfare class has become so accustomed to having the government bail them out of life’s money crunch that they expect the same for the house payment. Somehow the poor/welfare class extrapolated that free food stamps, free training for a job, free medical care, free rent, and free utilities meant that all of life is free. Somewhere in the education, upbringing and observation of these wretched souls they simply came to believe that only the suckers work and the smart people know how to work the system. Mom and Pop made it through on the dole and the dole kept expanding to the point that the welfare class felt cradle to grave subsidies are a right of life; society has become so perverse and distorted that the poor actually believe they are entitled to live as the elite and the elite should be happy to pay.
Figure 2 Economy Based on Deck of Cards
Yes, somewhere along the line the dumpster divers and politicians sold the American voter on the notion that we really are created equal, we not only have a right to pursue happiness but we have the right to have it given to us. Unfortunately the joke was on all of America, there is no free ride, no God given right, the loans have come due and there is no one to bail out the extravagant life style we told all Americans they had a right too. The economy of no work, free rides, take what isn’t yours, is collapsing. There is no American Dream, just dreams and hopes; the world is what you make it and if you can not make anything then you are destined to serve someone who does.
1 comment:
I found your post to be very interesting. I am realtor, so the housing market is my life....
I feel that the American Dream myth is often encouraging and provides great hope in challenging situation. However, in today's economy it creates shattered dreams. However, I think that the assistance that the government offers is more for the sake of the U.S.
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