Journal # 13

I think today's American dream has a lot to do with money. It seems like money is the only thing people fight for in America because money sets a lot of rules with in the nation. If you have a lot of money you are more respected. If you know somebody has a lot of money more people would try to become their friend just to get things from them. People look down on the homeless. It's not always their fault that they are poor and homeless. So I think the American dream would have to be having every family in America be wealthy. Having no debts would make this country a lot nicer to live in. I know it is stressful to be in the whole and I don't understand why some people hog all the money. Yes, they have a good job but how hard could it be to act in a movie? I don't think those people deserve that much money. The people that actually do hard labor deserve more of the cash because I believe they work harder than all people and don't get paid nearly as much. The American dream would be to have the whole country prosper and everyone have a job. There would be no homeless people and no people living in poverty. We would have no people starving and living on the streets. I think this dream is far out of reach, though. People just try to gather more and more money and don't think of the other people. We will never reach this dream if people stay so selfish like they are now. It would be a lot better nation if we didn't have to worry about money and all the bills. There would be a lot less stress causing more people to be happy. Money could solve a lot of problems and make nicer people. But, I know this dream will probably never be reached and will always be just a dream.