>If their dream is to be a cog in a wheel, its not the American dream.

It's nice of you to tell other Americans what they need to dream, but the last time I looked there was nothing in the constitution, the bill of rights or the declaration of independence that says that Mike Helland - or anyone else - gets to decide what the American dream is.

Regarding cogs in wheels - during WWII over 100 million GI's became cogs and almost 500K of them died so that you can tell me that being a cog in a wheel is not the American dream.