Discuss Claudia O'Keefe's assertion in "The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson" on page 208 that "The past is dust. Those mythic decades, during which The American Dream was considered to be our natural right, are over. We need to wake from our state of denial, accept the golden era's passing, and get on with life. Once we agree that the past cannot be recaptured, we will at last open ourselves to solutions we haven't yet considered, to business and immigration models which are still waited to be invented. Working as willing participants of change, we will devise ways to keep businesses from discarding employees like so much surplus machinery, while making certain there is profit for all. Ingenuity will be given free reign and the synergies we so badly need to solve this international crisis can finally come together." Please make one comment backed up by a reference to the essay along with one reply to a comment based on your own experience.
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