Sen. Ted Cruz: American Dream and U.S. Leadership in the World Are Slipping Away

[Formerly Once-Ler]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/18/sen-ted-cruz-american-dream-and-u-s-leadership-in-the-world-are-slipping-away/

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warns that the American dream is slipping away.

“The central challenge facing this country right now is that for millions of Americans, the American dream seems to be slipping away,” he told the crowd during a speech at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention on Sunday. “You know, today for the first time in our country’s history, a majority of Americans believe our kids will have a worse life than we did. That has never been true in over 200 hundred years of our nation’s history until right now.”

In August 2014, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that an unprecedented 76 percent of Americans doubt their children’s lives will be better than their own.

Sen. Cruz also indicated that American standing in the world is at risk.

“We need to restore America’s leadership in the world,” he said. “The Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind is a disaster.”

Cruz was one of many speakers at the three-day South Carolina Tea Party Coalition event, now in its fourth year.

He was well-received by the crowd, enjoying several standing ovations. Cruz may be running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

The convention, which is will carry into Monday, sold out. Up to 1,200 people are expected to attend.

[libertybele]

Ted Cruz is golden!   

[Formerly Once-Ler]

“You know, today for the first time in our country’s history, a majority of Americans believe our kids will have a worse life than we did. That has never been true in over 200 hundred years of our nation’s history until right now.”

That is as true now as everytime I've heard it before.

http://www.pobronson.com/factbook/pages/336.html#72

Things get more concrete in 1994. Then Republican Senator from Texas Phil Gramm that "recent polling data, showing that for the first time, Americans do not believe they are better off than their parents were." 2. I can't find that poll, but I'll take him at his word.
 
And the media's / pundits have been using that idea ever since – that this is the first generation that expects to do worse off than its parents.
 
In 1980, 14 years earlier, Newsweek did a special report on "An Economic Dream in Peril," writing:
 
   
      "And no longer do Americans share the great expectations of generations past. For the first time, public-opinion polls show that the average U.S. citizen is not at all sure that his children's lot will be better than – or even as good as – his own." 3.
 
Which should not be surprising, because there was an economic downturn leading into the 1980s recession.
 
   
      According to The New York Times, the oldest ongoing poll on public sentiment only dates back to 1951. 4.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/jobs_employment/july_2012/new_low_just_14_think_today_s_children_will_be_better_off_than_their_parents

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Hope for the future generation has reached an all-time low. Just 14% of Americans expect today’s children to be better off than their parents.

[libertybele]

“We need to restore America’s leadership in the world,” he said. “The Obama-Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind is a disaster.”

This is one reason why I feel Hillary or any other Democrat will have a difficult time selling their party and their policy.  Focusing on the economy and Republicans as the party of the rich to win just isn't going to work when we are faced with the ever growing threat of ISIS and global terrorism.  If the GOP is successful in pushing back some of Obama's policy the DEMS don't stand a chance.