WTF is the "American dream"?

For those of you wondering, this is where the concept of "the American dream" originated(Though the term American dream wasn't around until the 1930s)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger

What is the American Dream? You should ask all the Mexicans and other people who risk their lives trying to illegally cross our borders or drift on make-shift rafts to our shores.

money

hoes

cars

clothes