re: #126 negativ

The American as a Rugged Individual, who starts with nothing and will inevitably become fabulously wealthy in the Land of Opportunity, so long as he Works Really Hard.

Go ahead and try to start your own oil company or airline with that $1.98 in your pocket. Get back to me when you’re living The American Dream.

Like those self-sufficient pioneers of yore, who built the west with nothing but their bootstraps. On the free land the government gave them, after the United States military cleared our the previous inhabitants.