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The economic crisis affects us all. It doesn't affect us all equally, though. Its impact is as different as the generations themselves. Take the baby boomers -- the best-educated, hardest-working and most affluent generation in American history. Well, 17 percent of boomers say they are unemployed and looking for work. Barely on...
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Well, keeping up with the Joneses is what it was called. And a lot of people measured their success by cars, the cars and the house, the house in the suburbs. But I do think that as the economy contracts, people look for satisfaction and contentment closer to home. And you see -- I mean, all the Internet dating sites are very po...
-Eleanor Clift
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Well, John, dreams have always died hard in America. And the reason they die hard is because this country has been such a magnificent success for so many hundreds of millions of people for so many centuries. It really has. And Americans are a resilient people. They're an innovative people. They're a hard- working people. ...
-Pat Buchanan
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I think, out of necessity, a lot of Americans are saving now because the job situation is still so shaky. Either they're unemployed or perhaps their job is on the line. And so they're putting a lot of money into a nest egg, or as much as they can, week to week, month to month, as a bulwark against future upset in the economy. ...
-Monica Crowley
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| But to your point about why is the dream still alive and kicking with all of this terrible news, one thing that we didn't bring up is really that the dream has become as much about the journey as it is about the destination, meaning that the dream is our guidepost. The dream is something that keeps us from -- you know, keeps us ge...
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