The culmination of these ideals is commonly depicted in the façade of the American Dream: a person can determine their own destiny and with a little know-how and determination can rise from rags to riches . Even with this vision supposedly governing our country, it is an obvious mistake because the same people remain rich leaving the same people poor. Not only do the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich, but the poor get even poorer and the rich get richer. Currently programs that were once implemented in our government system to try to assist these less fortunate people and give them a boost, nowhere near attempting to level the playing field, have slowly been eradicated. Our country was not perfect when it was originally built and some of the moral values ​​we have today are not consistent with those we had then and many are still feeling the effects today. Although people are aware of these problems, it is the solution that is debated. How do you deal with this problem? Letting time sort itself out never seems to work, yet that seems to be what we're mostly trying to do. I have to be careful when I say tax the rich because I might be mistaken for a socialist. Unfortunately I major in zoology and know very little about our economy in the United States, from what little I know