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• W1583096543 abstract "American Dream: Can It Survive the 21 Century? Joseph L. Daleiden Prometheus Books, 1999, Amherst, New York 738 pages, Hardcover Can The American Dream survive the 21st Century? Based upon the author's findings, the answer is no. And if the U.S. government continues current policies, which are economically myopic, socially dysfunctional, and politically centrifugal, not only The American Dream but America, itself, will not survive. These destructive policies, as the author explains, are the result of successful lobbying by two powers that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. They are: (a) special interest groups advancing agendas based on race, ethnicity, religion, language, culture, age, sex, sexual orientation, handicap status, and academic and business needs, and (b) the ideological fixations of liberals and conservatives. These powers were able to exert such influence because The American Dream lost its original meaning. dream expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the American Declaration of Independence to establish a nation on the principle that all men had the 'right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness' has been replaced over the years by a multitude of different, at times, conflicting definitions. If The American Dream can denote everything, it means nothing. Absent a common bond, the unraveling of society is all but inevitable. This slow unraveling became a rapid deconstruction after radicals from the 1960s assumed leadership roles in the academic, economic, and political fields. Since then, The American Dream has been redefined to mean the superiority of the individual over society, of rights over responsibilities, of materialism over morality, of consumption over savings, and of the present over the future. Can this self-destruction be reversed? author - who has worked as a statistician, demographer, business economist, urban policy analyst, and strategic planner in the public and private sectors - argues it can be provided the public recognizes the solution is complex, multifaceted, and requires immediate implementation. To highlight this importance, Chapter One is entitled Two Scenarios for the Year 2050. Here, depending on whether or not the necessary reforms have been instituted, two radically different Americas are presented in the State of the Union address given in 2050 by the President of the United States to Congress. Without necessary reforms, the United States has politically disintegrated, like the old Soviet Union, with seven Southwestern States seceding and forming an independent Hispanic country. rump United States has declined to the level of a Third World country due to overpopulation - already at 500 million and projected to reach a billion in fifty years - and its corollaries: environmental destruction and rampant crime. second scenario, after the necessary reforms have been adopted, depicts a United States that has remained united politically and culturally, is economically and academically sound, and is enjoying an improved standard of living that is, most importantly, sustainable into the future. In the next twelve chapters, the author examines the serious problems confronting the United States - population growth, immigration, environment, deficit, trade, poverty, welfare, education, crime, health care, and taxation. Various solutions are presented balancing those advanced by liberals with those proposed by conservatives. After offering a critique on their respective strengths and weaknesses, the author submits his own recommendations. author advocates, first and foremost, a liberation from the mental straitjacket of the political ideologies of liberalism and conservatism as they currently exist. As a matter of faith, liberals believe in egalitarianism and conservatives in meritocracy. To prove the truth of their respective faiths, the former seek bigger government and more regulations, while the latter seek less government and fewer regulations. …" @default.
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