It's the Government's Choice. Not your's.

Is the American dream still accessible to most Americans? Well, that depends on what people think that the “American dream” really means. To wealthier people it might mean a big house, nice cars, and living in luxury. But to people less fortunate it could mean just living comfortably and not worrying about whether or not they are going to be able to pay the bills this month. I don’t believe that the American dream is accessible to the majority of Americans. Most people in society have some type of debt or set-back that keeps them from living worry free. In “RIP, the Middle Class: 1946-2013” Edward McClelland describes the down fall of the middle class. The fall of the middle class isn’t because of the poor, or the rich. It’s because of the government. People can’t just go to school and get quality jobs anymore, you have to start from the bottom. A lot of people never get out of the bottom, and the lucky ones are the ones that make it to the top. It isn’t a given that out of high school or even out of a college you are guaranteed a great job. Back in the day it wasn’t like this, the gap between the upper class and lower class is only getting bigger. In “From Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich , she tells her story of being a maid in the lower class, working hard to make decent money. She works as a maid and describes her first couple of days working there. She talks about the people she works with, and the people she works for. In this you can see that all of the people there are in the lower class working very hard to get by in life, while the people she is working for aren’t paying them what they deserve for the time and sweat they put into it. This shows that the American dream isn’t accessible to the majority of Americans. People can work hard their whole life, and not be rewarded like they should because in the governments eyes some people’s work is not as valuable as others.