An Asinine Phrase

[Dr Exile]

What the hell is the American Dream, I wondered? Seven credit cards maxed-out, living paycheck to paycheck, upside down on the mortgage in a boring house you don't really like, a job you hate but the retirement plan gotcha, your little boy buzzing on force-fed Ritalin, wife and daughter gobbling Prozac and everyone wondering, “Is this all there is?”

Actually, yes. Well, maybe a week at Disneyland with that stupid mouse.

As much as I detest the phrase I shall attempt to define it.

"To be a yeoman farmer or miner or perhaps if we must, a yeoman merchant, who can, when pestered by petty bureaucrats or revenuers, feed said leaches to half wild swine."

[lkwalker]

Now there's a life of quiet desperation for ya.

[Pigeon]

I thought congress was the half wild swine.

[Pana]

What the hell is the American Dream, I wondered? Seven credit cards maxed-out, living paycheck to paycheck, upside down on the mortgage in a boring house you don't really like, a job you hate but the retirement plan gotcha, your little boy buzzing on force-fed Ritalin, wife and daughter gobbling Prozac and everyone wondering, “Is this all there is?”

Actually, yes. Well, maybe a week at Disneyland with that stupid mouse.

I love it! (But it really should include, somehow, the rates of obesity.)