Is the American Dream Dead?

The American Dream could not be more alive, but there are those promoting class warfare who are certainly trying to kill it off. The derogatory articles and reports about the wealth of the top one percent or the enormous gap between the wealthy and the poor, seem endless. It is called “wealth inequality” as if everyone should have the same or close to an equal amount of wealth. I am not denying the wealth gap exists. My contention is that these reports suggest there is something inherently wrong with this, that the top one percent are not paying their “fair share” or that they are somehow responsible for keeping the poor, poor and for shrinking the middle class. Nothing could be further from the truth and these reports promote socialism at best and, in the worst of cases, promote jealousy, resentment and hate.

Let’s take some examples of the top one percent and determine what’s to “hate” about them. Let’s take the founders of Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook, arguably some of the most “egregious” of the one percenters, obviously all living the American Dream. They dared to … click HERE to continue reading