success is still embracing this country. now, there is actually less social mobility in america than there is in europe. and this is a problem that the country's not really addressing. but people believe they can get ahead too. i always remember going to interview a steel worker up in iowa who was campaigning for john edwards just after the $400 haircut incident, you remember that? and i said, don't you feel bad you're on the shop floor, you're a guy struggling to pay his health care bills and your candidate's had a $400 haircut. and he said no, that's the american way and one day -- >> that's the dream, the $400 haircut. >> well, no, i don't think people are that happy. >> he didn't resent somebody else. >> americans have never -- have just never been that way. my parents weren't that way. i told the story of us driving past huge houses. and my mom just pointing at the huge houses while my dad was unemployed for a year and a half saying work hard in school, you