Who Captured the American Dream?

It appears that Uncle Sam is heading at warp speed toward bankruptsy. Who captured the American Dream? When did the American Dream become homes, boats, fancy cars, flat-screen televisions, Blackberrys, blueberrys or iPods?

A group of patriots in 1776 in Philadelphia gave us the American Dream. These brave men preserved the American Dream for us in several documents. The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Federalist and Anti - Federalist Papers.

Against the overwhelming opposition of we the people, our elected officials recently passed into law a bill that will most certainly lead us further down the path to economic destruction.

History warned us in 1833. President Andrew Jackson shut down the central bank loan sharks and investors-the gamblers of his day. President Jackson said to them, "Gentlemen, I have been watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the people. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin 50,000 families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out!" Andrew Jackson slammed the door shut on the central bank. It appears we didn't learn a lot from "Old Hickory".

I leave you with the words of Thomas Jefferson:

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..."

The American Dream is not found in the material. The American Dream is in the heart and secured for us in the documents those patriots left to us so long ago. .....musology