The American Nightmare

So I was thinking.....

Has the "American Dream" turned into a nightmare?
Is the white picket fence, the nice car, house, dog, two kids named Joe and Jane, and beautiful wife merely an unattainable dream?
Who was asleep when this dream occurred? Bill Gates? Donald Trump? Because it definitely couldn't have been me.
Being a Business student, I hear about the recession every lecture. In my marketing class, my professor often speaks about how people are cutting cost, their not too worried about that Bentley or extra bathroom they don't need.
He talked about foreclosures too, you know, from those that are living beyond their means to spend money they don't have, to buy things they don't need, and impress people they don't like, or know for that matter.
Why do all of these things matter? Who said that these materialistic things had to be attained in order to define success?
Oh, I remember....that damn dream.
That damned white picket-fence-10-bedroom house-2 kid-1-dog-beautiful wife......dream.
People steal, kill, lie, manipulate, abandon, and destroy for this dream.
People cry, hurt, panic, overdose, die to LIVE this "dream".
So I ask again...who was asleep when they were having this dream?
Could it have been Lincoln, or Washington, or Nixon?
Because I'm sure it wasn't me, Malcolm, Truth, or Douglass.
Someone told me they had a dream of what America stood for, and I believed them.
When is the last time you up and decided to live someone Else's dream?
Wake up from America's nightmare.....live your own dream.

-JR