"Is the American Dream Over?" Blog post #6

Summary:
In the passage "Is the American Dream Over?," by Cal Thomas, Thomas questions whether the American Dream is over. He begins to explain how he believes that it is over and the government is to blame for it. Thomas believes that "self-reliance, individual initiative, and personal accountability" are all the things that we as Americans are missing in order to achieve the American dream. According to Thomas, the government needs to stop providing us with benefits such as, welfare, financial aid, etc. because we are abusing it by not working hard enough to attain our own things. It is making us lazy and keeping us from pushing ourselves to achieve the American Dream.

Response:
I mostly disagree with Cal Thomas. Thomas’s passage was to biased. He believes that the American Dream is over because of the way the government gives out benefits such as financial aid, welfare, food stamps, etc. He believes that the “government is out of control and thus out of touch robs every citizen, preventing fulfillment of the original American Dream.” In other words, the government is making us all lazy because they are handing us free stuff, making us not work hard enough for what we all really want. I couldn’t disagree more because as bad as our economy is and our government sustaining a lot from being able to work, I think that benefits such as, financial aid, welfare, etc. are great because they give us all a way to start from a place so low.