Look, my wife won't even take any overtime anymore because it bumps her in the next tax bracket and she makes LESS than not working at all!
The more you work, the less % of your own money you get to keep? That's anti productive and anti-american, period.
The motivation to work is getting less and less? Why work 60 hours a week to buy your first house when section 8 will give you one for free? Yes our welfare system is now BUYING houses for "the poor"...makes me sick!
Also by giving "the poor" a pass on there flat % and fare share of paying for the services they receive you give them the more motivation to keep their victum/entitlement mentality that is already to pervasive in our soceity today.
"The poor" in the USA are largely a by product of substance abuse, neglectful one parent households, haven been taught no standards, self respect or moral work ethic.
Barring few exceptions, there is virtual no reason to be "poor" in america besides ones own self destuctive actions. Time has proven my point, after 40 years of the "new deal" giving more money to the poor, are things today any better for the "poor"? Has giving money to them REALLY helped them? No it hasn't the situation is worse than ever. The CORE issue with most of the "poor" today is rampent moral decay, not loss of oppurtunity.
Once one realizes that the MAIN reason that ones life is so screwed up, is staring them in the mirror, and not "the man", their parents, the system or whatever else, and you can admit the main fault is with yourself, you can change!
You don't have power over "the man", your parents, the system or most whatever else in this, BUT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO REGAIN POWER OVER YOURSELF, RIGHT?
I know, I was "poor", but after years of blaming everyone else and it not facing my own demons and changing I finally realized IF I DON"T CHANGE NOTHING EVER WILL GET BETTER FOR ME!
With God's grace I did change, I cleaned up my act, went back to school, and busted my ass and just and very soon my WHOLE world got 1000% better, and now I'm "rich" in much more than just $ as well! <Solid faith, Wife, Kids, good Job, nice toys, etc>
Bottomline of the American Ideal is: YOU make your own Life what it is!
<It's not ANYONE Else's job in this world to build your life and make you happy besides YOU!>
The country needs to get back to it's roots of Loving Freedom, Country, Duty, and God <as you define him> first before we will see any real change in this downward sprial we are in now.
Historicaly that means either all out cival war and or revolution.
<Rant,Rant,Rant.......>
IMHO...