>>>The days when someone could finance a house and put kids thru college on a truck driver's salary - as one could during the 60's - were fun while they lasted, but they're over.
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>OK, but why did that happen and who did it benefit. And what does the truck driver's daughter think of the American Dream now?
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>Rhetorical- but seems to me there's no reason why somebody who works hard and saves for it, shouldn't be able to fund a better life for his/her kids. Take away that expectation and the social compact starts to look bad and Robin Hood starts to look good.

It is already taken away, but Robin Hood is now owned by Hollywood.