American Dream Fading Fast?

Is the American dream a dying breed?

The American dream is a dream I've had for a while. I'd love to have a nice car, nice house, family... all the things that have been long associated with the American dream.

But is this dream fading away?

I know very few peers who even have the ability to reach this dream. Most of those that I know who even have the financial stability and security to be able to start a family, continue to delay it.

Will we soon be saying, "it was just a dream"?

America has long been based on principles of family and freedom. Slowly but surely politicians have been chipping away at those principles until they've become so faint that the ability to trace and find them has all but nearly disappeared. A few Americans still know what it means to be free but are they passing those principles on down to their children? Where has freedom gone? Is it just a pipe-dream? A lost reality that no one any longer can embrace or hold with pride?