6/04/2011

Small Business Can Save The American Dream

Very interesting article on farms vs. factories, urban vs. rural and their place in American history. Read it!

The twentieth century incarnation of the American Dream wasn’t just a set of ideas about home ownership. It was a way of life: domestic bliss in the burbs. But the differences between the Suburban Dream and the older American Dream based on the single family farm tell us a lot about the problems Americans face now — and help us begin to think constructively about where we need to go next.