The dictionary define "complacent" as being "self-satisfied and unaware of possible dangers." That is the predominate attitude each of we wage earners adopt when we deposit our pay checks in the bank. Very few of us take the time to really look at our pay stubs to realize just how much of our money is being removed in the form of incessant taxes. What is even more laughable, if not discouraging, is the gleeful midset we adopt on April 15th when we slap each other on the back and happily report that we didn't owe any additional Federal income taxes or we are actually receiving a refund. Are you kidding me!?! It's our money we're getting back. It didn't belong to the government in the first place. We earned it. We have only, over time, become so complacent in allowing the government to garnish our wages to the point to where we actually have succumbed to the perception that the government has the right to our money...with no questions being asked or accountability being required. This lemming attitude has got to be greatly revised. Not in the government's favor, but in ours.
President Obama and his congressional henchmen are prepared to pass a $3.6 TRILLION budget, $1.2 TRILLION of which is slated as deficit spending. In other words, it is a promissory I.O.U. that has no collateral guarantees other than the assumption that "we the people" will foot the bill in the form of future taxes. This budget deficit is over and above the in place $12 TRILLION in deficit spending already earmarked for future taxpayer repayment. That currently amounts to a taxable debt of $35,000 for every man, woman and child residing in this country.
Do you have any idea what a TRILLION equates to? Consider these comparisons: A million seconds equals 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A TRILLION seconds is 32,ooo years! Multiply 32 by 13 TRILLION and you are looking at FOUR THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY CENTURIES!! This is no longer the foundation for the continuing promotion of the American Dream, but a generational nightmare! A nightmare that our children and their children's children's children will never pay off. It has got to stop!
This reckless and unfettered spending has evolved far beyond a function of economics. It is a moral issue which should not and must no longer be ignored with just mere grumbling rhetoric. It is time for citizen action of unparalleled strength of voice and numbers. As of today's date there are being organized currently approximately 1,700 Tea Parties to be conducted all across the nation, each scheduled to occur on April 15th. They are not your typical parties. No festive favors are being planned, there won't be any refreshments, and no presents are required. It's a "come as you are party" where everyone is invited except self-serving politicians or currently elected government officials who would otherwise have to pry themselves aways from continuing their drunken indulgence at the trough of the public's largess.
The locations of these Tea Parties rallies in your immediate or surrounding communities may be obtained by accessing the following Web site: http://www.teapartyday.com/. There is still time to organize a Tea Party in your community, but if you discover that one is already scheduled, plan to attend yourself and take with you a carload of your friends and neighbors. If you realize the moral obligation that our government owes "we the people," their bosses, then you will be in attendance. If you, on the other hand, you don't mind that the government can keep increasing your taxes with no say from you, who keep reducing yours and your family's quality of life with their unquenchable greedy and reckless spending, who are bankrupting this country for the present and uncountable generations to come, then you stay home. Try to be convinced that doing your patriotic duty includes being happy that come April 15th your government has decided that this year and in the years years to come that you don't get a refund...of your hard-earned money. Yes, try to be complacent about that.
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