Contract for the American Dream

Posted on October 4, 2011 3 Comments

Have you guys heard about this yet? What do you think about it?

Contract for the American Dream

I have yet  to read the fine print but first glance looks pretty intriguing. Especially in light of all the economic issues currently affecting me and those I love, namely:

- Lack of job opportunities for those fresh out of school
- Housing market
- College loan debt
- Lack of job opportunities in what were supposed to be growing “green” fields
- Health care expenses and insurance coverage
- Retirement questions/social security
- Taxes and covering our federal/state debt

Some of the other categories look intriguing, such as investing at home and in our national infrastructure. Seems like there are lot of good ideas here. I’m admittedly late to the game on this one, as I haven’t yet looked into where the support for this is coming from, other than the laundry list of progressive organizations found at the bottom of the web site and that Van Jones is affiliated with it. In fact, the first I heard of it was on Facebook today. Would love to know more.

I also don’t know whether it’s tied into the Occupy Wall Street (and other cities) protests; the last I heard was that group was still working to get its message out.

Interesting times for the young and disillusioned, indeed. The question is, can we do something about it?

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3 Responses to “Contract for the American Dream”

  1. Bergie Powers
    October 4th, 2011 @ 11:09 pm

    Definitely interesting. Did you watch the cute video with the kids?

  2. The Budgeting Babe
    October 4th, 2011 @ 11:24 pm

    I didn’t have time to watch it at work today, I’ll have to do it from home.

  3. Missie
    October 5th, 2011 @ 3:38 am

    I’m going to check this out when I’m not feeling so brain-dead, emotionally and physically…I took my mom to the funeral home today to help her kick-off the pre-planning of her “final arrangements” and place a down-payment on her “final expenses,” as they say (with the rest to be paid off over the next 18 months or so, interest-free, at today’s prices).

    A smart thing to do, of course, and I commend her for planning ahead — I was chatting with hubby this evening that we should think of doing the same, even though, Lord willin and the creek don’t rise, as the saying goes ;-) it will be some time before we’ll need those “final services,” we will all need them in time, and planning (and paying) ahead is a relief for the loved ones.

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