Tough Luck, Americans: The American Dream of Upward Mobility Is Dead

By Steven D | Sourced from Booman Tribune
Posted at January 5, 2012, 7:16 am

To anyone paying attention to the growing wealth inequality in the United States over the past 50 years it should come as no surprise that their is less economic mobility in America than in many other developed countries. Our pundits and politicians almost unanimously extol the notion that our freedoms have led us to be the most exceptional nation on earth, where the poorest of the poor, through hard work can raise themselves up to the height of the economic food chain. Any man or woman can become a millionaire! You just have to want it bad enough. America is a golden land of opportunity and if you aren't rich its your own damn fault, you lazy dirty [insert hippy or the name of the requisite ethnic group you intend to demean here].