The American Dream: on Permanent Holiday

www.huffingtonpost.com/tiziana-dearing/us-wealth-gap_b_1093582.html

I read Where Is the American Dream Today? from the Huffington Post. And my answer is; it's on permanent holiday. Okay, maybe not permanent, but definitely on holiday. There's a Green Day song called Holiday and part of it goes "This is our lives on holiday", and that's exactly how I feel about the American Dream.

According to the article the poverty rate in America is at an all time high (as if that was surprising). It spits out a bunch of data that just reminds us all how much life sucks a ton and that we really have no hope of ever getting out of this. In the recession in the early 90s it took 15 months for the job rate to get back to the rate before the recession, but people that say stuff and we believe it economists predict that it will take 60 months for the job rate to return back to normal this time. And by THAT time those same people say we could very well be in another recession. So really we should be panicking and going around murdering each other, but we can't, we have to keep going about our business, because no matter what it will all be okay, most of the time, unless you're ugly and have no friends (sorry, I'm going on a rant about mixed messages from the media here). Some people are doing something, though. Not murdering, but protesting. Occupy Wall Street is sending a message that all this isn't okay. The article mentions keeping the dream alive, but maybe it needs to die and then regenerate (Like the Doctor. Get it? Anyone? No? Fine.). Occupy is, in a way, trying to reshape the American Dream. The American Dream has gone on holiday but hopefully it'll come back refreshed, rejuvenated, and sporting a rocking tan.