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The American dream

Much has changed in the US over the course of 5 years. The gas prices have gone up by more than a dollar and other utilities have become more expensive. It is no longer a free ride with security over here. Items of daily use have become expensive too and one has to think before buying anything off the shelf. Companies have been clever so far. They have reduced the quantity just a tad bit to keep the prices stable or hiked the price and given a dissimilar increase in quantity of the product that they sell.
The burden of war is showing on the American economy. But even with all this most Americans would not agree when we tell them that the war is costing them more than they are earning out of it. I would not stick to the moral stigmata attached with being a conqueror but there are economic downfalls as well.
The question is who is profiting from all this. It is not the average American who is getting any job security or more pays or tax cuts. Rather it is the big corporations that are posting huge profits. IT is the oil companies that are looting the nation of the united. It is the Arab owners who are getting more than 100% profit out of their oil sellings. All that money these Arabs are spending like water is being extracted in most part from the pockets of the tax payers here.
Just look at the American roads. One can hardly see a car of American brand on the road. It is either Japanese or the German. Smaller cars with efficient energy use are the order of the day here.
Venture capitalists are the ones who are seeing silver lining around every cloud. They are getting rich if they have even little experience in the field.
Indian and Chinese economies are over shadowing the American economy so fast that by the end of this decade tables would have turned over the nation of the united for sure.
The second generations of the immigrants are much smarter and clever. They know their ways around and are exploiting the system to their fullest.
Americans have to give up their ventures in foreign lands in order to save their own economy perhaps. They have to peek within their own shirts to set things into order. The leader of the united is in hot pursuit of an objective that is no more than a mirage. This mirage will soon be evident and if action is not taken in time much might be lost. The American way of life will not be the only looser in this battle. The American dream will die with it too. And that means still more frustration for millions who are watching and trying to live this dream all over the world.

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