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Kathianne
08-18-2015, 05:10 AM
Two terms:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/new-677511-millennials-economic.html


OPINION (http://www.ocregister.com/common/archives/?catID=18963)Obama, the Left downsizing the American Dream
BY JOEL KOTKIN / Staff columnist
Aug. 16, 2015
Updated 12:00 a.m.


Barack Obama has always wanted to be a transformational president, and in this, at least, he has been true to his word. The question is what kind of America is being created, and what future does it offer the next generation.


President Obama’s great accomplishment, arguably, has been to spur the evolution of a society that formerly rested on individual and familial aspiration, and turn it into a more regulated and centralized regime focused on broader social and environmental concerns. This tendency has been made much stronger as the number of Americans, according to Gallup, who feel there is “plenty of opportunity ahead” has dropped precipitously – from 80 percent in 1997 to barely 52 percent today.
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Perianne
08-18-2015, 05:35 AM
Wow! What a wonderful column!

Kathianne
08-18-2015, 05:40 AM
Wow! What a wonderful column!

Depressing to me. :(

Perianne
08-18-2015, 06:08 AM
Depressing to me. :(

It is depressing but it was spot on. And that makes it something wonderful to read; someone else gets it, too. And thus the appeal of Donald Trump to some people.