BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Deepening the American Dream | PBS

[FreedomInAmerica]

The American Dream is not about social justice, equal poverty for all with no incentive nor reward to succeed. The American Dream is about the free market. It rewards those who make it with both money and feelings of accomplishment.

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The American Dream is not a welfare state for all. It challenges all to become better to get the things they truly want in life. There will always be poor. Why should we abolish the middle class for the elitist desire to redefine the American Dream?

[Darusdei]

Maby you should wake up from the dream...

[jibbi4one]

THE AMERICAN DREAM, you have to be asleep to believe it - G.Carlin

[meItinjohn]

So true.

[patsagainstrats]

Moyers has been an at-large Vietnam war criminal for over forty years now. When will he finally be brought to justice?

[Changeis9]

this was a great wrap up to a great show this week. THANK YOU BILL MOYERS!!!! PLEASE DONT LET FUNDING FOR CPB get funding cuts.

[nekedemus]

The American dream turned out to be a nightmare.

What will you Americans do. You don`t even has a constitution any more.

Your leaders refuses to follow the law of the land.And you are Letting them get away with it.

[doral044]

Well nekedemus,it looks like you commented in anger...but, unfortunately I agree with you & I am a born and raised American. What on earth have we allowed and how could we have been so blind, passive and in denial?

[quinn2469]

I wasn't born in the US but came here when I was 5. I have benefitted greatly from coming to America. I would not be who I am today if I had stayed in the Azores. However, you are right. I believe in America as an idea. The country set up by the Founding Fathers. Today, it is not what they intended. I always say that if the Founding Fathers were alive today they would start another revolution. What's sad is that most Americans have no real clue of history and the constitution.

[quicksite]

As always Phil Donahue cuts thru the soft rhetoric and hammers out the cold hard reality.

Thanks to Bill Moyers for his continued fantastic journalistic service to America - and for adding features like this that start spotlighting what American citizens have to come to terms with... that we get the country we want. if we want something better, then more citizens have to feel a sense of stake in the future, and act responsibly to shepherd those stakes despite the abuse of 2-party politics.

[patsagainstrats]

Yes, Phil learned this insightful technique interviewing male strippers on his old morning show.

[whiner00]

patsagainstrats-..and dont tell me...you were one of the STRIPPERS? thats ok! STRIPPERS are humans too

[PaulLeary]

Bill Moyers -- this county need more men like you!

[numba1stunna4269]

Ross Douthat definitely has the right idea going there. He speaks at 1:23.

[joebonk]

lol. are you kidding?

[bahamel242]

Finally, rational thought --

[NBlunierProductions]

hmmm

[DMuMajor]

I just threw up.

[anmoose]

Am I missing something, or is this the 3rd time today this has been uploaded?

[PBS]

That's correct -- we have had technical problems with this video, and needed to re-upload it several times.

[anmoose]

Thanks for the response. It had me wondering.