American Dream Crushed

I just read an email that was supposed to be funny and actually it was, but it also made me think.

The email was about how kids of today have it so easy now with all the electronics of today.  But what it got me thinking about was how the children of today actually don’t have it so easy.  The reason why they don’t have it so easy is because in March of 2010 the Government Crushed the “American Dream” and the children of today will be paying for it for the rest of their lives.

I was raised by liberal father and a conservative mother, but of course when I was a kid I never knew that or understood that.  But now that I am in my 50’s with grown children of my own I understand that a lot more.  But back when I was a kid both my parents raised me with the belief that if I worked hard and did the right things I could own my own business or have a great career and own a nice home and live a comfortable life.

The whole key as I saw it was that you needed to work hard and do the right things.  Well I geared my life on working hard and doing the right things.  I spend 30 years working hard as a bookkeeper and office manager.  After 30 years and my children were grown and on their own, I decided to try to own my own business and do something I loved to do, which was to build websites.  In the beginning I had been married and raised my two children but also got divorced and was a single mother as well.  I feel I was fortunate during the time when my children were young and I was married I was healthy and had medical coverage though the military.  But that all changed when I because a single mother.  I could not afford to get insurance as a single mother because I struggled to put food on the table for my children.

I am sure many people out there have similar stories and storied far worse than mine.  But my point here is I was still living the “American Dream” because I worked hard and I tried to do the right things even though no fault of my own some bad things happened.  So to continue the story a bit more, when I turned 50 I was just barely able to buy a home.  I finally felt I was really starting to live the “American Dream” the only thing I could not afford was retirement and Health Insurance, but could afford to feed myself and pay my bills.  Well at least I was at least heading in the right direction, I figured all I had to do was do what my parents taught me and work harder and do the right things.

Well just as I think I might soon “just make it” into the comfortable part of the “American Dream” the government makes major changes during an economic recession that will crush the “American Dream” for myself and my children.  One way or another it will cost me even more to just live.  It will cost my children more than it ever cost me and they are just starting out in life on their own.  My children will never know the luxury of being able to be in good health and deciding to forego having heavy healthcare insurance and taxes to make ends meet and just put food on the table.  My children will never know the luxury of true freedom of choice.

For me I now see my future as being a burden on my children because I will lose my home and my “American Dream” because of being taxed or fined heavily to pay for the healthcare insurance bill and god knows what else is coming after that.  And for my children I will watch them always struggle and never know true freedom of choice.

Before today I could DREAM, but now I just want to just CRY.

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