@OP
Nobody is stopping you from becoming upper class. Obama is speaking to the nation as a whole. You do realize that it's a logical fallacy that everyone can be upper class? That's like saying you can have an army with all officers and no grunts.
The best we can hope for is a nation where poverty is minimal, middle class offers a high standard of living as it does in western economies and that the brightest and most capable can easily rise to the top if they've earned it.
Nobody is stopping you from becoming upper class. Obama is speaking to the nation as a whole. You do realize that it's a logical fallacy that everyone can be upper class? That's like saying you can have an army with all officers and no grunts.
The best we can hope for is a nation where poverty is minimal, middle class offers a high standard of living as it does in western economies and that the brightest and most capable can easily rise to the top if they've earned it.