As a middle class American I am starting to wonder what will become of us. Taxes and the loss of our jobs to other countrys' is becoming our death. I am 44 years old and after a college degree and years of hard work I am still financially struggling. This is not the America our parents built for us, remember how mom stayed home and took care of us while dad earned a living. Not any more we are both forced to work to make it. Oir children are often left to fend for themselves while we try to make a living. We all see the news our children are turning into murderers shooting up schools with a fraction of the moral values we were raised with. I know, NOT MY KIDS we see parents near every day that really are no different than us, who are honest hard working people. But to financial needs are forced to work more and spend less time with their children.
WHY? Our government is putting us in financial dire straits due to mis management and over spending. Our president wants to hold corporate Executives responsible for mis management of funds of investors and employees.
Why does this not apply to our elected government officials from local to federal branches. How much more can we afford to pay in taxes? My wife and I were looking for a new home recently 6,000.00 a year in property taxes for a 250,000.00 home. That is 500.00 dollars extra a month. For what I bought the lot and home ask the bank they lent me the money. now you go from a 1275.00 payment a month to a 1775.00 payment a month. How much longer are we willing to let our government take our dreams and hopes from us.
Ford is closing plants in the U.S. and building new ones in Mexico. Is this not one of the companies that led the charge during the Reagan era to force Japan to build plants in the U.S. or restrict their import quota? Now that the Japanese auto makers all have plants here our auto makers are pulling out. I believe we should quit buying their cars and trucks. Corporate america is laying off its' workers at a record pace. Why? Beccause it is the new trend have one person do the job of two boost the profit margin make alot of money then sell to foreign interests.
My question to all that read this is how much more can we or are we willing to take? If Enron officials are being held accountable then why not our millionaire senators. When do we stop their buisness as usual attitude? When do we force them to put 89 billion dollars into our families and our communities instead of oversees? Why not force them to give US back the AMERICAN DREAM? Our fore fathers built this country for us not for some greedy lazy politician that only knows us at election time.
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