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| This is what the 'American Dream' once was. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 23 2017, 02:57 PM (74 Views) | |
| _g R_ | Dec 23 2017, 02:57 PM Post #1 |
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From extremely humble beginnings as a poor farmer in remote southeastern Turkey, Dogan Uygur scrapped and scraped his way through primary school to earn a scholarship to a technical university in Istanbul, then eventually made his way to the United States. Dogan’s inspiring experience reads like a movie - a poor immigrant comes to these shores with little more than a fierce determination to make a life for himself and, through hard work and well-timed assistance from key individuals along the way, seizes the moment when opportunity arises and becomes a living embodiment of the American Dream. In this interview with his son, The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Dogan talks about: - The hardscrabble life growing up as a rural olive and grape farmer in Kilis, Turkey - Breaking out of the rigid Turkish class system he was born into - Fighting for and winning a free education in the big city of Istanbul - Winning a scholarship to the US and the wonder of coming to American for the first time - Being invited to the White House in 1962 to meet President Kennedy - Working as a tutor and pots and pans salesman to support himself as a student - His whirlwind arranged marriage to Cenk’s mother - and wife of now 50 years - Returning to Turkey to open a machine shop business - and industry he knew absolutely nothing about - Succeeding in business in Turkey but being driven out of the country by threats of violence against business owners by communist agitators - Starting over again in the United States in real estate - another industry he knew nothing about. - The secrets to his success he likes to share with young people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpjOHrlY2s |
| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| _g R_ | Dec 23 2017, 03:00 PM Post #2 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UtfshHyN1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxtZ7HoEhZU&t=310s Edited by _g R_, Dec 23 2017, 03:06 PM.
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| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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| PATruth | Dec 23 2017, 03:44 PM Post #3 |
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The American dream isn't dead, there are too many lazy, entitled snowflakes that are unwilling to pay the price to achieve the American dream. To many have been convinced by the left the dream comes in the form of a government handout. |
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"No. No he won't. We'll stop it." | |
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| _g R_ | Dec 23 2017, 04:10 PM Post #4 |
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Government handouts ? You mean like when the US territories were handed out to the European settlers ? Or when Halliburton is handed a no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure after the US destroyed it over the last 2 decades ? Or subsidies to big pharma and the fossil fuel industries ? Taxpayer money paying for wars we don't want and feeding the military industry. The middle class which was built upon FDR's New Deal has been under constant attack from the start. The top 1/10th % now own more wealth than the bottom 90 % ! Our democracy has become the monarchy we fought against in the Revolutionary War.. Edited by _g R_, Dec 23 2017, 04:12 PM.
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| The real leftists are the silenced majority, the sleeping giant. | |
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