20 Reasons We Must Change (Or, a little incentive)
THE POOR:
· 47% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes.
· 60% of Americans receive some portion of their income from the federal government.
· US welfare, food stamp, and disability rolls are at all-time highs.
· Unlike in the rest of the world, the poor in America qualify for 100% free healthcare, housing, food, transportation, and yes, even cell phones.
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THE YOUNG:
· The largest percentgage in US history of young people under 25 are unemployed.
· The young today are less educated, less responsible, and more dependent on others than any previous generation.
· Facing a life of outright poverty and crime, or indentured-servitude through staggering amounts of student debt and low wages as the return on investment for a useless college degree, today’s young people will be the first generations of Americans who have it worse than their parents.
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THE OLD:
· 73 million Americans over 65 will stop working over the next twenty years. That’s 10,000 per day, every day, for 20 years.
· Federal healthcare spending increased from $50 billion in 1980 to $850 billion in 2010. If it continues to increase at this rate, it will consume and then surpass the entire federal revenue in less than ten years (pssst – this won’t happen, the entire system will crash before we get there).
· Over their working career the average American pays $30,000 into Medicaid. The average recipient receives ten times that amount, or $300,000. This means they are currently stealing the input of nine other Americans’ contribution.
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THE RICH:
· The leaders of our largest banks and financial firms (the richest of the rich) are currently under investigation and/or have admitted – IN COURT – they committed civil and criminal acts. Yet they have completely avoided any indictments, let alone any convictions, and they enjoy the implicit and/or explicit support of the government who has and will continue to force taxpayers to pay for (through bailouts and other favors) the losses these firms brought upon themselves.
· It’s great work if you can get it – steal money from your customers as a part of doing business on top of generating profits, get a bailout when your bets go south, escape jail time, and pay a slap-on-the-wrist
fine that often is less than 1% of the profits “earned” from your wrongdoing.
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THE GOVERNMENT:
· Numerous federal agencies are under civil and criminal investigation by the congress and the FBI for failing to do their job in terms of regulating the financial services industry.
· Others, such as the EPA, the FDA, the IRS, the BATFE, the NSA, and the DHS serve to strangle businesses and hamstring taxpayers, while creating crushing oppression against both one’s ability to make a living and our God-given rights.
· While even more of the federal and state agencies (some that we truly need, many that we don’t) hide under piles of bureaucracy simply hoping they can escape another on the budgetary chopping block.
· Meanwhile, the Department of Justice does nothing other than run guns into Mexico and sue states that try to allow their residents to defend themselves against thugs and illegal invaders (be that on the streets or in the voting booth), while members of the SEC are using taxpayer dollars to surf porn, and members of Congress have sat around for years playing Solitaire on the House floor while using insider trading info from Wall Street to build their personal fortunes on top of the lifetime pensions and healthcare they receive.
· Oh yeah, and the Federal government, in the event of even modest interest rates increases (say back to the historical norm of 3 – 5% – which WILL happen sooner rather than later) is immediately bankrupt. Not as in, “We’re bankrupt so let us print or borrow some more money,” but bankrupt as in everything – Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Social Security, Corporate/State/Individual Welfare, etc., immediately stops functioning.
· It’s at this point that the “Do-Dahs” outside of Chicago, LA and NYC, go truly berserk and start killing people en masse.
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THE WORKING MIDDLE CLASS:
· The host for the parasites. Fools and suckers that are being bled bone-dry of their energy, labor, mental and physical health and income and wealth, while wasting their lives at 60-hour-per-week jobs they hate (yet are scared to death to lose) while clinging to the belief we still have a Republic where things like the Rule of Law, integrity, honesty, hard work, patience, virtue, morals, rewards and consequences, and fair play still exist.
· All the while fooling themselves (willful ignorance, cognitive dissonance, flat-out denial?) into believing their vote still counts, or that their chosen political party can change our course and make things better (or, God help us, at least cause less harm than the other guys’ political party), while drowning out the idiocy of their rationalizations with the fact that “we have it better than most” because we still have cold Bud Light, cable TV, and can afford to go out to eat on Friday’s or get laid once in awhile.
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So…
Where do you fit in?
Who do you support? Who supports you?
Who do you blame? Do you share in or accept that you may be to blame?
And regardless of all that, all we can do is change ourselves. So, what more incentive do you need to change
yourself? What will you do? Will you do anything?
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