sergio
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Investment Banking |
| Occupation | Manager |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | The American Dream: In Europe, class lines are rigid. Each class has developed a culture of glorifying itself within the social 'order'. Denied a prospect of mobility, the European Worker feels envy and resentment, not ambition looking upward. Americans see class divisions aspirationally. Americans are looking forward and working hard for the day when they move up. In America, within 9 years, 86% of people on the bottom 20% of earners move up, with more people ending on the top 20 % earners than stay at the bottom. The makeup of the bottom 20 percent is changing constantly, as new immigrants come in and find their footing on the lowest rung on the American economic ladder. But almost all are moving up, fast. |
| Interests | Reading, Sports, Travel, |
| Favorite movies | Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood - 1971) Blade Runner (Harrison Ford - 1982), The Count of Monte Cristo (James Caviezel - 2002) The Illusionist (Edward Norton - 2007) |
| Favorite music | Rock, Prog, Classic, anything passionate |
| Favorite books | Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand, Liberal Fascism (The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning) - Jonah Goldberg, America Alone (The End of the World as We Know It) - Mark Steyn, Liberty and Tyranny (A Conservative Manifesto) - Mark Levin, Green Hell (How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them) - Steve Milloy, The Age of the Unthinkable (Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It)- Joshua Cooper Ramo, Superfreakonomics (Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance) - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, The Survivors Club (The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life) - Ben Sherwood, Arguing with Idiots (How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government) - Glenn Beck, An Inconvenient Book (Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems) - Glenn Beck, Culture of Corruption (Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies) - Michelle Malkin, Catastrophe (How Obama, Congress, and Special Interests Are Transforming... a Slump into a Crash, Freedom into Socialism, and a Disaster into a Catastrophe... and How to Fight Back) - Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals are from San Francisco (101 Reasons Why I'm HappyI Left the Left), Common Sense (The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine) - Glenn Beck, Myths, Lies, and Downwright Stupidity (Get Out the Shover - Why Everything You Know is Wrong) - John Stossel, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History - Thomas Woods, Jr., Ph.D., 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask - Thomas Woods, Jr., The Road to Serfdom - F.A. Hayek Free to Choose - A Personal Statement - Milton Friedman The 5000 Year Leap - A Miracle that Changed the World - W. Cleon Skousen If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans - Ann Coulter, |