So it's Tax Day all across our great nation, and people are flooding the streets in celebration of our patriotic duty to give money to the federal government to support those wonderful programs that make our nation function as a whole, like reseeding the grass on the National Mall in Washington, DC, or building a lobster museum in Maine, or even keeping failing companies in existence that continue to bring our economy downwards. I'm so thankful that we have the government to choose to put money into those areas that no rational American citizen would even think of doing.
If you don't like your taxes now, just wait for the next few years. We thought that Pres. Bush spent money like crazy, well Pres. Obama is putting him to shame with the amount of money coming off the presses now, doubling Pres. Bush's average spending deficit from $300 to $600 per year. This means that while Barry publicly committed to reducing the nation debt, with current spending and budget changes will increase to $15 by the time all this money is spent. Over the next 10 years the burden put on Americans will increase from its current $24,000 per U.S. household to $32,000 for the average taxpaying family. Each of us is going to have to figure out how to make much more money over the next 10 years just to pay for the increase in taxes, just to live at the same level we are now, and that's not considering other changes in economy or increases in spending throughout those years.
I'm not just trying to push unhappiness on this wonderful day of taxation, but it is an actual concern within our family considering the amount of money our country is spending. I plan on trying to make money over the next many years in order to provide a happy life for my family, but it is hard enough to survive without having to also pay for non-taxpaying families. I'm even more worried for my children who are going to inherit a larger national debt and even larger yearly deficits due to huge government programs that will require more and more spending over time.
We have someone who promised "change", but change is not always good, and it seems that we're getting more of the same spending that we got from Bush's last year in office, though maybe the "change" is that instead of just paying for failing companies through bailouts, we taxpayers are now paying for anything and everything that can be stuck into a bailout, a stimulus package, or any other spending bill that is "required" for the preservation of America's future. Many years ago Cuba demanded change in their country, and now look where they are. I'm not equating Obama to Castro by any means, but turning a country from a republic into a socialist state doesn't happen in one step, although our government may be trying to prove that wrong with recent spending and government control over various private sectors.
I'm thankful that there are many people around the country that feel the same way I do, with the attendance of hundreds of Tea Parties by thousands of Americans protesting things from excessive taxation to overabundant government spending. It's time that We the People stopped meaning We the People of Washington politics, but returned to We the People of all American citizens. We need to return to a "representative" government that does what we ask them to do, and not be told what will happen because it's where the nation should head whether we agree or not.
My parents came to this country legally many years ago because of the opportunity that existed here, but something changed from then to now. I hope that "change" comes to us soon, not Obama's kind of "change," but a real change, a return to what made our country great, before my children are grown and realize that the dream that brought their grandparents here doesn't exist any more.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...
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