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If you can pronounce this, then maybe you can understand what the United States has become. This Country was once know for its citizens being allowed to achieve the American Dream. Hard work and dedication once rewarded us with an income to properly raise and sustain a family, buy a home and send our children to college. A trip to McDonald's was considered a treat or even a date for some and an amusement park seemed like a vacation.
20 years ago, we were able to start a business with little more than the savings of a years wages. We could allow our children to play outside with the neighbors and scrape their knee or even need stitches and a quick trip to the local emergency room could still get home in time for dinner. Once fed well, you slept well and did not worry about whether or not your house payment or utilities paid. If you were late or behind, you could extend the pay date with little more than a phone call.
Today, most of us work all week only to earn enough to cover this months bills. It takes years to save the required down payment to buy a home. You cannot even get a cell phone without a hefty down payment if there is as much as a blight on your credit from years ago when you bought our first car, or the expensive divorce where you had to split all that you worked so hard to buy with your soul mate. We could no longer buy the business we've worked for for the last 18 years, and could never afford to start one of our own due to mountains of paperwork, regulations, loan terms and requirements.
A trip to the hospital could take hours, especially when you factor in traffic, and long lines and insurance check in. We could never make it home in time to cook dinner so we whip out a credit card and we stop at one of the 19 fast food restaurants we passed on the way. What used to cost $3 dollars, now cost $8. When you get the statement and add 16% interest and with the charges for your lunch and morning coffee for two days and your gas and dry cleaning. Everything you bought cost you $24 more money than you paid for it.
So who are we working for? The bank that advanced you the money on your credit card, or the $2 fee you paid to get your own money out of the ATM or, the credit card fee charged at the restaurant the gas that cost you $6 bucks to get there and and the drycleaning that was more expensive because of their increase in fees for chemical waste disposal. Cost of insurance before you drive and the cost of the hospital visit. This is all a reality but it sounds impossible. The worst part is that this scenario only applies if you have a job. Imagine if you did'nt, how would you survive?
Our country is soley functioned on a SUPER FRAGILE CAPITALISTIC model. Are we so Atrosious that everything we buy, own, or work for goes to someone else. But this is where it gets interesting. Usually in the United States, that someone else is someone who has everything they could possibly want or need and will never need anything else ever again during their entire life. Now I do not propose they close their businesses or give away their fortune to the poor, but I think feel that if these corporations have a monopoly on our lives our actual existence the power to determine if me and my family will be homeless or not, I think can expect them to give some of it back to the people who has given it to them.
We all can agree that they do pay taxes. I can even agree that is fair that they keep their money, they earned it. The question most want an answer to is, Do the Supercaptialist pay enough taxes? If they have enough money to sustain their entire lives and the lives of their children for generations to come, why keep the rest all to themselves? What happens to majority of the people that are struggling to make ends meet in the United States if nothing is done at all?
