<p class="quote"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">A report released Monday by the Omaha-based public-interest group Aurora indicates that increasing numbers of Americans are being defrauded by schemes that offer financial reward for a lifetime of hard work. "People don't realize that long-term savings and loyalty to one company don't pan out," said Sylvia Girouard, the study's author. Girouard added that steady employment which claims to offer long-term financial gain in the form of a pension plan is nothing more than an elaborate Ponzi scheme.</span></p> The Onion best onion articles, american dream, socialism, work for a living the-feed 0 2009-10-23T11:10:02-04:00 <p>Just the way your parents did it.</p> 11 6244 ah-the-american-dream 2009-10-23T11:11:34-04:00 true false false false false 2009-10-23T11:15:32-04:00 http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43212 84 0