I have found that the American dream has changed from when the founders fought to create this country that their fight was basically for the greater good of all.
     In today's society it is for the greater good of oneself. Let your neighbor suffer as long as you are not. It's now what can "I" achieve not what can we achieve. Just recently, I was talking , more like arguing with my 19 year old nephew and his girlfriend about this sort of thing. What really hit me was their beliefs that their rights in this country is to live the dream by only worrying about themselves and if people are losing their jobs its not their problem those people should go get another or two jobs or even three if they have to to support their families. Those peoples misfortunes are their own problems not theirs.
     This is where our country is going wrong.People need to stop only thinking of their own survival and others dint matter. Too many times people like that get into high positions like CEO's. People who take what they need or want and dint care about the people who work for them.
     Greed runs this country not the people. Wars are created to make money, people are laid off to assure the greedy ones get theirs, insurance companies deny to keep cash flowwing, and yes banks create credit cards to charge their interest for their upper management.
     If you seen all CEO's live with 30% less than what they get, there would be more people working and making better money

Louiseff.  I have to agree with you 100% on the greed point!  I think a big part of the current economic problem stems from greed.

Now, where I might diverge a bit from your point is your quickness to blame CEOs.  Yes, some have been greedy, greedy, greedy.  But MORE people were greedy and bought houses they could not afford, or took out lines of credit they could not afford.  Yes, the banks gave those loans out (the idiots!)  but people are not mindless creatures.  Good decisions have to be made.

Thanks to people like Dictator Obama, we have a blame game going on focusing on a few greedy CEOS.  Where is the accountability for average citizens living within their means?  Where is the accountability of our government borrowing trillions of dollars?  Even if we taxed the "greedy CEOs" at 90% the revenue would be a drop in the sea compared to the trillions in debt we are racking up.

I can remember about fifteen years ago, some developer put in a brand new middle to upper class subdivision across the way from we we were living out in the boon docks.

Beautiful, huge, lovely homes.

A year or so later it struck me how quickly it had filled up...every single house sold.  A whole new little neighborhood.

And you know what...it didn't take me long after that to realize...these beautiful family homes were all dark at night.  Dark and empty...until 7 & 8 o'clock at night!!

The families weren't living in them....they were out working for them...Working their asses off so what...on the weekends they could " live in these houses...."

They looked sadly like lines of lovely little doll houses who's child had out grown them and left them dark and empty.

    My mom always told me history repeats itself. Dig into the history of the world and look at all sides of governments, wars, buisness. You will see these problems we face are not the first but the first for OUR generation. Same problems just a different year.
     We humans are destined to repeat our mistakes no matter how much lower class humans scream, vote and protest.

Louiseff....well....keep in mind, I am no Bush fan!  He was an economy wrecker, too.  I blame him as much as Obama.  So, the old "Bush was WORSE" is pretty moot.

Bush's largest deficit was $400 billion.....which is TOO high.  Obama = $1.4 trillion.

One is hard pressed to find anyone Obama's wild borrowing and spending have benefited, save Wall Street firms and assorted government workers. 

     i don't want to get in a big thing with anyone , but drpsyce38 it sounds to me like you don't have the complete story but just partial facts . And your using parts to try to make your argument . 
     Now that being said I'm not pro Bush or Obama . Yes when Bush left office there was a debt of 400 billion , but that's not all that was left during his term is when all the bad mortgages  were handed out .  which led to a globale recession . Now Obama comes along and he has to try to stimulate the economy so the money he puts in would have had to be done by anyone else in his position . Now I'm not saying the way he is trying  stimulate the economy is right . I believe he's f***d up big . But there hasn't been enough time gone by yet to see the full affect of his stimulate package .