is fading and nothingness if you want the american dream back voted to go to college about that have a good job a reliable health care live knowing that inaction or sickness won't like you out and work to keep these radical reactionary republicans out of government. after the break all across america thousands of recent college graduates are eager to start their careers only to find themselves forced to take dead end jobs just to get by is there any relief in sight for these graduates or is the idea of having a promising career slipping farther and farther away. i. feel. for. me is he. says. in screwed news all across the nation a new generation of young americans are graduating from college armed with degrees and ready to start a career unfortunately an economy scant on job prospects they're having a very difficult time for the finance a lot on a career track many are stuck in dead end jobs with no benefits no health care no retirement contributions and up to their eyeballs in student loan debt every one of us know someone who fits this description and since paul ryan's budget

as far as latinos really want to live the american dream. they are now one out of every six americans in this country, and they represent the future of the united states, and we need to invest in latino children today when we can make sure they receive a quality education. they are the future work force of this country. they are the future leadership of this country and if we're going to continue to be a global leader we need to develop the human capital of all our people. >> shreveport, louisiana. good morning to joe, democrats' line. >> calle >> caller: i hate to tell you the truth. i'm a democrat and i employ myself. i play by the rules, i came here legally. married for 22 years to the same american woman. i'm paying my dues to society. i don't care who you are. you play by the rules. once you break -- once you come here illegally, and this is very common among the asian and latino, they come here illegally and expect to be citizens or residents. the best solution is all of them get deported. i don't care who are you. that's the name of th

who knows what might happen to you in your american dream. so i -- i'm just very impressed with this. i think it's terribly important that we continue to talk with the family, that you'll hear from the family today, to have a memorial to this great, great american. every now and then i'm still reminded of some of his wisdom. we probably all think about the little advice about the military industrial complex and many, many other things, but i just want you to know that i think the commission has taken it very serious, the responsibility that the congress gave them, and they want to do it in the most possible best manner that they can to reflect this great american, among the greatest, no question about it, and so i would just say that i -- i can't speak for them, but i can say this from getting acquainted with other members, very serious about it, very sincere, and want to get the job done and be cognizant of the needs and satisfaction, of course, of the family, absolutely. so i think we're -- they are ready to move on. they want to do this to

ways to get by so they were desperate americans are now pinning their hopes on the cheek of the american dream also praying for falls over obamacare the fate of fifty three million americans angry the balance i will conservatives help the nation's uninsured if obamacare is struck down and because brothers are again destroying our democracy and taking away your power over the federal government are they flooding politics and money and buying out washington without anybody knowing. did you know this today was the final day of arguments before the supreme court to determine the constitutionality of obamacare yesterday's bruising interrogation by the five right wing justices in the high court with the cornerstone of president obama's health reform law the individual mandate in jeopardy and today the high court heard arguments to determine just how much of the health reform law should be struck down if the individual mandate itself is ruled unconstitutional bigger picture here is this the supreme court may be on the verge of ripping out more pieces of our nation's social safety net a social safety

but here is an example of the american dream. who would have ever thought abilene, kansas, somebody would end up as supreme allied commander and president of this great country? and did a wonderful job in both places. and so i started really falling in love with this concept for a youngster today that come out of that space museum that go there by the thousands and go across the street and see there is an example of what can happen if you apply yourself and learn and prepare. who knows. what might happen to you in your american dream. so, i'm just very impressed with this. i think it's terribly important that we continue to talk with the family, which you're going to hear about today, and the other members, because this great moment to have a memorial to a great, great american. every now and then i am still reminded of some of his wisdom, we probably all think about the little advice about the military industrial complex and many, many other things. but i just want you to know that i think the commission has taken it very seriou

that is the american dream. to give our children that better life. and it is the fundamental bond that we all share. every sunday at dinner as a boy, we had a tradition in my family. my parents would tell my brother and myself that we had a duty to give something back to this country which gave them so much. with that advice came a set of ballets -- hard work -- values. hard work and honesty. qualities essential to life and citizenship. as a young boy, i was taught the importance of hard work. my parents ran a restaurant in monterey. my earliest recollections work washing glasses in the back of that restaurant. they believed that child labor was a requirement. [laughter] then they bought a farm and my father planted walnuts. i remember moving irrigation pipes, working with a hoe alongside my father. as the trees matured, my father would go around and knock down the walnuts. my brother and i would be under the trees, picking up the walnuts. when i was elected to congress, my father said i was well- trained to go to washington because i had been dodgin

part of the american dream as well. will durant was always doing what he wasn't supposed to be doing. certainly wasn't supposed to be atop the best seller list. he went to the seminary and made his mother proud, was going to become a catholic priest. but he didn't find god in the seminary. he found atheism, and he fell into a different church, church of socialistsists and anarchistd he started giving lectures and he was billed as a professor at seton hall and he gave a lecture on sex in the catholic church, which was pretty explosive, and will durant's mother, who had been so proud of him for trying to become a catholic priest, learned on the front page of her hometown noone her son had been ask communicated from the church. he went on and -- the anarchists accept him. if you're a convert to catholic chunks catholics accept you and like you but they're going -- not going to make you pope. the anarchists in new york city, they were so small they were willing to make whoever their pope, and will durant became the principl

this principle in the constitution law are the foundaons of the american dream. it makes possible the dynamic social order in which every member of society can work based on its ability and the primaryo secure property rights and break down barriers of opportunity and uphold the rule of law. th isou ecomitory. wh protted there n incenterk, is reap what you swhen o orc w, more pple will sow and more people will eap. >> when a othe property extends toall the amount of wealth throughout society increases exponentlly and we can pursue our happiness. the basic safety net is provided by society and public assistance at the appropriate level of government and that can now protect those who cannot take care of it. >> what's truly revolutionary about this model, is the freedom and opportunity is available to everyone. result, poverty not extinguished has vastly diminished. more importantly, it is no longer a condition from which there is no escape. >> about a hundred years ago there were those that i would describe as a different dream that government could better enginee

has the smallest government of the world but it's through these government programs that the american dream was possible and as these government programs are slashed by people like paul ryan's republicans here in dream is fading in nothingness if you want the american dream back go to cut to go to college or those that have a good job reliable health care live knowing that an accident or sickness won't wipe you out and work to keep these radical reactionary republicans out of government. coming up after the break today was the second day of arguments before the supreme court over the constitutionality of obamacare and things aren't looking too good for the right wing radicals the supreme court willing to put politics ahead of the best interests of the nation and strip americans of what should be a fundamental right. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old i'm going to live through live. lives. i confess and i am a total get a tattoo i loved having had a few seconds and. he was kind of it yesterday. i'm very proud of the all that she sees as a place. to live. lives. you kn

people like paul ryan's republicans the merican dream is fading and nothing's if you want the american dream back go to cut to go to college or the debt and have a good job a reliable health care live knowing that inaction or sickness wipe you out and work to keep these radical reactionary republicans out of government. coming up after the break today was the second day of arguments before the supreme court over the constitutionality of obamacare and things aren't looking too good so the right wing radicals this report willing to put politics ahead of the best interest of the nation and strip americans of what should be a fundamental right. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old like to tell the truth live. live. live i'm a contestant i'm going to get a sense that i love rap and hip hop music and. he was kind of the just today. i'm very proud of the all that i'll just see it's played. live live. live . you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so horribly sleep you think you understand it and then even something else you hear see some other part of it and realize ev

and if you ask them, "will you achieve the american dream?" most americans say yes. but at a collective level when you ask people, "does the american dream still hold true?" we're seeing in surveys for the first time that only about, you know, half of americans are agreeing that the american dream still holds true. and that's remarkable. >> what's the practical consequences of that? of giving up faith and hope in that dream? >> the fact is that for most middle-class and working-class americans the politics seems increasingly removed from their everyday experience and their life. and there is a current of distrust and anger towards washington is that is so deep right now. >> when we turn on our tvs, our radios, or pick up our newspapers, we read about what is going on in our federal and state governments, and we start to believe that you don't care about us. we hear that corporate welfare continues and ceos get six-figure bonuses at taxpayer expense, and we wonder who you're working for. and we look across the kitchen table at our families eating ramen noodles for the

all right, american dream. >> american dream, okay. paul ryan. >> paul ryan. >> creative. >> creative? >> yeah, yeah. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley, energetic. >> energetic. >> yeah. >> donald trump. >> huge. >> huge. rick santorum. >> press secretary. >> press secretary. >> one correction for governor romney, it's not huge, it's uge, you lose the "h." mitt romney is renovating his la jolla ocean side property, san diego area. politico had a new report. they got some plans from the city about a renovation he's doing on the place. $12 million expansion, which would triple the size of the property, includes a split-level, four-vehicle garage that comes with a car lift, an elevator for the cars, to transport vehicles between floors. the romney campaign got some criticism -- he's out of touch, he's got a car elevator, et cetera, et cetera. the campaign says it's simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces, and we know how mitt romney loves cars. >> i love cars. i don't know, i mean, i grew up totally in love with cars. i drive a m

gallup called it the great american dream, he always wanted to write that down, what the great american dream has been for decades has been peace. then it became to have a family, pray to god that you want, freedom and a bunch of stuff like that, that has been the will of america. here's what you need to know, though, almost nobody knows this, it will sound subtle when i tell you, it's just change the new will of america is to have a good job. it's a huge shift that changes everything. one thing it changes when you get married. you wait longer. or you don't get married at all. it changes how many kids you have. or maybe you don't have any at all. here's a big one, it changes my migration patterns. here's a real important one, it changes who we vote for. more than ever. it also changes for all of the people here in corporations, we were just talking about this, it changes how you manage your work place. because now, a job is personal and it defines your relationship with your country, with your state, with your neighborhood, with your family and also with big you. i say, is that new? tha

the american dream accounts act of 2012 is a modest but powerful bill designed to empower students and parents of all backgrounds to achieve those dreams from an early age. mr. president, i welcome support from other of my colleagues to make this bill a reality. thank you. and i yield the floor. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: matt the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of h.r. 3606 which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 334, h.r. 3606, an act to increase american job creation and economic growth by improving access to the public capital markets for emerging growth companies. mr. reid: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: on behalf of senator reed of rhode island, brown of ohio and others, i have a substitute amendment which is at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the

americans the the mill the militia movement is their last refuge when they've given up on the american dream and realize the united states is not the land of opportunity like it was before reaganomics took all these americans mostly men watched their fathers and grandfathers come of age during the new deal era in america and then were able to raise families on a single paycheck working in a factory they learned what it meant to be a breadwinner to be a provider for their families and whether it's politically correct or not being the sole provider for the family was an important part of what being a man was all about for most of american history and still is for most unfortunately today with millions and millions of manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas and tens of thousands of factories that once supported these middle class breadwinners close down these men feel that they have lost their manhood which is why a two thousand and four report by the national institute of justice found an absolute link between high unemployment rates and increases in domestic violence the stress of being

where are the american dreams of our kids and grandkids? the -- in the red. so we are committed to a full repeal of the president's health care law and today we advance bipartisan solutions to improve and to strengthen medicare. where the president and democrats failed to act here in washington, we will lead. our plan has no changes for those in or near retirement, allows choices, including the medicare option. so that patients control their health decisions, not bureaucrats. when bureaucrats choose, patients lose. in the future americans through a guaranteed system, read the bill, mr. chairman, a guaranteed system will be able to select the health coverage that's right for them. not that washington says they must have. our solution is guaranteed, it's voluntary and it's bipartisan. something our friends on the other side of the aisle simply cannot say. our plan also includes commonsense tax reform, closing loopholes, lowering rates, broadening the base, helping job creators, a system that's more fair and more simple and allows us to compete in the world. bec

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it's a central part of the american dream. will tell you his own story. he's leading a wave of sorts. searching for the american dream, not in a far corner of our country, but in a far corner of the world. >> i can feel like cleveland, ohio. it can feel like san francisco. it can feel like terre haute, indiana. but in actuality, you're in beijing, china, only half a mile from tianemen square. my name is carl stetzer, from cleveland, ohio, and this is my brewery. we've had an opportunity to meet other americans that have started businesses. lost and found which is a high-end fashion shop. there's the veggie table that deals 100% in vegan menu, drinks, everything. and then there's home plate barbecue with texas-style, southern-style smoked meats and barbecue. all sorts of fascinating things that are really starting to represent the american entrepreneurial spirit in beijing which before was lacking. so every day i leave my house and walk to the brewery. most of these alleyways of 100 to 200 years old. a lot of culture and a lot

>> i think the battle ground of the american dream. o right, get married, have two kids, have a car and the picket fences. but when these dreams come true sometimes they also can wither and die. >> in fact your heroine -- >> megan. >> she's got a couple of names. >> that's right. i'm glad you read the books, by the way. >> it's a terrific book. not a lot of hard work. the fact is she -- she ventures back to atlantic city. >> yeah. >> and her past. and in reading this there's also a decent amount of history. >> yeah. >> you imparted there. >> first of all it was fun to explore atlantic city. that's kind of what i wanted to do. here's a person who achieved the american dream but she's still feeling a little restless. a little distracted and misses that old life that was supposedly so horrible. that kind of excitement. but all these people coming back to this horrible incident that happened 17 years ago and finally getting the answers. >> and yet there's some dark humor in there. you've got a pair of hired killers. >> yeah. >> called ken a

that is a sure way to erode the foundation of any hope of the american dream. we're here to change that. and to change that with some urgency. we launched the grad nation campaign to mobilize america to end this dropout crisis. now, this campaign has become a large and growing movement of dedicated individuals, organizations and communities. working together toward this goal. we are grateful you are here this week, as leaders of the movement. this includes so many of you from grad nation communities. those communities on the front lines of helping young people succeed in school, work and life. all communities can join in this america's promise alliance initiative and become grad nation communities. by working across sectors to pursue the grad nation goals and sharing best practices. to date, nearly 40 communities have joined the grad nation community network. from large, urban centers, such as houston, texas to small, rural communities such as kenston, north carolina. whether you've been a part of the grad nation campaign for a while now, to the movement, we th

what the great american dream has been for been peace. maybe that's out of civil war and world war i and world war ii. then it became have a family. pray to the god that you want. freedom. and a bunch of stuff like that. that's been the will of america. here's what you need to know though. almost nobody knows. it'll sound subtle when i tell it to you. it's just changed. the new will of america is to have a good job. it's a huge sociological shift that changes everything. i'll give you a couple. one thing, it changes when you get married. you wait longer or you don't get married at all. it changes how many kids you have. or maybe you don't have any at all. it changes migration patterns. we've been walking 200 years following herds or agriculture. now we walk because of a place we think we can get a good job. here is a real important one. it changes who we vote for. more than ever. it also changes for all the people here in corporations, how you manage your work place. now a job is personal and defines your relationship with your state, you

they invested in this old american dream. you save enough money. you buy a house. you have a lovely home and you will make money when you resell it. that's gone. >> that's gone for now. however, if they did have 20% to put down, if you were to get a real steal of a deal and you understood money and you had enough of a cushion they would probably do it. when you see these kids not wanting to do it it is because they are not secure in their jobs. if you don't have enough money you rent until you do. by the way, there is nothing wrong with renting for the rest of your life. nothing wrong with it if that is what makes you feel secure. >> that is not the american dream. >> it is now. it most certainly is now. >> the american dream has been tarnished in recent years. isn't it important rather than america is broken that america remains a great country. it just has to be brought back up again? isn't that a better way to look at this? >> america is a great country but its people are broken. its people are broken because they can't feed themselves. they can't get a job. the

economy is breaking down the american people are becoming more poor we're moving backwards the american dream has faded i promise max that i won't use any more statistics but i just say this with it it's the book is red and blue and broke all over not only is the country broke with the red party and the blue parties are intellectually and morally bankrupt and you know we've had you know back and forth between red and blue and blue and red and still over the course of forty years according to milken institute study you know the middle class media median incomes for american middle were forty years then with a college degree down twelve percent a little high school diploma only down forty seven percent there's your american dream i want to talk to counter-argument for a second during the crisis the federal reserve expanded its balance sheet by three trillion dollars during the european crisis the european central bank has expanded its balance sheet by about three trillion euros the bank of england bank of japan they're all expanding their balance sheets and in so doing they are supporting the d

it most certainly is now. >> yes, but suze, the american dream has been tarnished in recent years.but isn't it important from work from a philosophy rather than that america is broken, that america remains a great country. it just has to be brought back up again. isn't that a better way of looking at this? >> no, america is a great country, but its people are broken. and its people right now are broken because they can't feed themselves, they can't get a job, they can't take care of their kids, they can't keep their cars, they can't do anything. so our spirit is broken. >> but part of the problem, when i grew up, for example, you could buy a house with a 5% deposit. you're talking about 20%. i bought a house recently in america, i had to put down a 35% deposit. the banks are no longer lending the money they used to. the same bankers, not all of them, but the same wall street institutions and bankers that you could argue brought this country to its financial knees are now awarding themselves the same old bonuses, but not lending money to people who are desperate for their homes. tha

that is only in america story part of the american dream. will durant always did what he was not supposed to be doing. i call him the apostate historian. he went to the cemetery and made his mother proud. he did not find a guide, he found atheism. he fell in with a different church of socialist and anarchists. and started to give lectures. somewhere racy and they build them and lecture with sex and the catholic church. and his mother who was so proud to become a catholic priest learned of a front-page better son had been excommunicated. he was an apostate. literally. they anarchistic september go if you are convert the catholics will accept you but there will not make you the pope said day after tomorrow. the anarchist were so small they were willing to make whoever their pope. and will durant became the principal of their school the principal and guidance counselor all rolled into one. students would build with snowball's random a girl's would get up and start skipping rope. added certain point* will durant went native. spending a lot of ti

managing director of tension capital partners author of inflated how money and debt built the american dream which you see right there and he's really going to break down for us what the real deal is behind these stress test so first i really appreciate you being on the show welcome to capital account mr whalen my pleasure absolute so you know first broadly because we've heard this report of you know since earlier this week that fifteen of the nineteen banks passed the stress test for failed is part of this citi group sun trust ally and that life broadly how accurate are these tests and more importantly what do you what would you grade the method behind because i know you've been quite critical. well i own half a bank rating agency called institutional risk analytics and every quarter we run stress tests on every bank in the united states the first comment i would make is that you never meet mix economic prognostications projections of guesswork with financial analysis because the two are quite different when you're stressing a bank you ask if i have a big loss how much capital do i need it'

they saw this native american dream catcher. alberto, do you know what this is? looks really like a cobweb, and it has feathers and things. if you place a dream catcher over your bed at night, it catches all the bad dreams. it's supposed to catch all the bad dreams. all the bad... just the bad dreams. the bad dreams. and what about the good dream? so the good dreams stay. oh. a lot of things are wrong with the car. and i noticed there's a problem with the steering. she thinks and thinks and thinks, and then she decides she would sell the car to buy the ticket to go to california. i have to sell it. how are you going to get back to... with the money, i can take a bus to san francisco. i think it's a good idea for rebert... uh, rebecca to sell her car. i think the car has so many problem, she didn't have any choice. there's so many problem with the car, and you never know where and when the car's going to break down again, and you never know if alberto will be there again. she has options now. she has alberto to give her a ride. she can take the bus. and also she do

night kastrup stripper willing to take off her clothes to make ends meet could this be the new american dream and. it is friday march thirtieth the five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for watching our team. well it appears there are major plans for the united states to expand its military president presence toward the southern hemisphere this includes an expanded presence in australia and in the long run possibly a new air base on the cocos and keeling islands this is a territory of us troia located in the indian ocean halfway between australia and sri lanka there's talk of the islands would replace the current u.s. indian ocean based on diego garcia that's leased to the u.s. by britain and at least runs out in two thousand and sixteen and while the specifics of the new base remain under wraps an in-depth report by the washington post this week found the location to be quote ideal for manda surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned drones also an official review conducted inside australia found there's been a big push to expand the naval base in perth these are just a few of the details

we hear a lot about the american dream and whether it is broken or not.gnificant decline in economic mobility and social mobility. those are abstract ideas. item going to tell you my story. i grew up in middletown, ohio. any ohioans? [cheers] yay! i grew up in a blue-collar middle-class family. my dad was a machinist at the local steel factory which at the time employed two-thirds of the people in the town. my mother was an office manager at the local orthodontist office. they were able to send make to a public university, ohio univ.. [cheers] go bobcats! we did great in the n.c.a.a. by the way. they were able to pay for my college out of pocket. what did that mean for me? i entered school and exited school in four years which is now the exception because it now takes about five years for the average student to complete college. i had zeroed debt and i did not even have to work a job while i was in school so i could focus on things like clubs that would help my professional career when i graduated. fast forward to your generation. not only has the price t

it is a fantasy for millions of americans. dreams of a lavish lifestyle bankrolled by hundreds of millions of the dollars of free money all for the taking with a single lucky lottery ticket. now back to reality. if you haven't checked your numbers yet take out your ticket. eric rasmussen is here to tell us about that huge jackpot that was up for grabs tonight. >> let's go ahead and take a look at those numbers, they are 46, 23, 38, four, two and the mega ball of 23. of course the jackpot is that record $260 million. but now for the reality check, the odds of winning are just one in 176 million. but that did not stop people from jumping in right until the last minute. >> tonight's mega million number is 23. >> as they drew the winning number for the largest lottery jackpot ever. john molina and his family waited with us in san lorenzo to see if any of their 30 tickets was a winner. >> lost, lost. >> reporter: what do you think? >> next time, man. >> reporter: he was one of the last people to get his lottery ticket before the 7:45 cut

it is a fantasy for millions of americans. dreams of a lavish lifestyle bankrolled by hundreds of millions of the dollars of free money all for the taking with a single lucky lottery ticket. now back to reality. if you haven't checked your numbers yet take out your ticket. eric rasmussen is here to tell us about that huge jackpot that was up for grabs tonight. >> let's go ahead and take a look at those numbers, they are 46, 23, 38, four, two and the mega ball of 23. of course the jackpot is that record $260 million. but now for the reality check, the odds of winning are just one in 176 million. but that did not stop people from jumping in right until the last minute. >> tonight's mega million number is 23. >> as they drew the winning number for the largest lottery jackpot ever. john molina and his family waited with us in san lorenzo to see if any of their 30 tickets was a winner. >> lost, lost. >> reporter: what do you think? >> next time, man. >> reporter: he was one of the last people to get his lottery ticket before the 7:45 cut

now it is my honor to introduce someone who believes deeply in the american dream. we're both products of that's has children of those who came from other countries. he is dedicated to defending and preserving that dream. i am grateful to vice president biden into dr. joe biden -- and to dr. jill bide. -- jill biden. they have a son who deployed, so they know what the war is about and the sacrifices that are required of military families. over the past three years, vice- president biden has trouble to the region extensively and has played a tremendous role in steering policy. he probably deserves a combat badge for the political battles he has been involved in. jill has led the effort along with mrs. obama to support military families. on behalf of all of us at the department of defense, we think the president, mrs. obama, we think the vice president and dr. jill biden for their leadership, support, and dedication to a strong america. strong in mind, strong and body, and strong in spirit. ladies and gentleman, the vice president of the united states. [applause] >> i