Its obvious that the phrase, "Clean up your own backyard before you take care of someone else's", has taken an exit in the past 8 to 10 years. The days of Amercia taking care of Americans are all but gone. Today what you have now is a mirror image of what socialism can be if we do not take back what is rightfully ours. Although the form of social entitlements, TARRP, bail-outs, and blown budgets are all common issues, they are the main ones that are holding our nation hostage. In my opinion, the 3 areas that we can start at are simple. Tax code, federal pay cuts, and immigration. These are an odd 3. I agree. But it is these 3 in my opinion that are causing the most disruption in our current system.
Tax Code Remodeling
The current tax code today can be explained in one word. CONFUSION! How can anyone, let alone working citizens, keep up with the onslaught of wording that this document contains. Why are we living with this infectious code. The time for reform of this is NOW! How can someone who lives unemployed and puts nothing into the federal income tax system, receive income tax back. The system of checks and balances with the code, along with the IRS over watch is pitiful. Red flags on little guys, while the line crosser next door banks it up every year with every allotment possible. Who do we have to blame for this. The administration? No! This has been an issue long before President Barak Obama took office. But we were not this bad off as a nation then, as we are now. Unemployment is the talk of the town and people living in these towns only want one thing. The foot off their back and a chance to grow and get back to where they once were.
Federal Pay Cuts
This issue lies deep within me. Simply because if you are a PUBLIC official, and you are elected to an office by the taxpayers, how can you decide when its time for YOU to get a pay raise. Shouldn't that be left up to us. I mean we did elect you to the position. Do professional athletes tell owners how much they want to make or do they collectively bargain to an agreement? Why are we allowing this. While some are attacking wall street, and attacking an administration, WE should all be targeting and attacking these individuals we play. Our STAR athlete's in congress and our local government. This is truly a debacle. And at the end of the day, which city is growing the most jobs? The one with the host of high paid officials. Thats the equivalent to drilling for oil and selling it right out of your backyard, regardless of what the baseline price is. Letting this continue is like telling a child, "Hey, I know your cheating on your tests, but you gotta stop!" Do you honestly think without some sort of act of agression from us, that this will cease. No! And YES I said AGRESSION. We as citizens have been too dormant to what has been going on right in front of our eyes. But can you blame us. Not really. Simply because we have enough problems living our lives and making ends meet in one way or another. And for some of us that's by working multiple jobs. When the time comes, I would like to see an operation "CUT PAY" initiated into Washington. Because if they cannot perform the job, they most definitely don't need more money to make life a little easier on their living. I mean look at the other side of the equation. Some of us have REAL issues that it takes a pay day loan to solve. If you put that shoe on the suits in Washington, I feel a lot would change, including how politicians vote.
Immigration
If you see something, SAY SOMETHING! Unless of course its dealing with illegal immigrants in your area soaking up jobs that you would do for more pay. In the past year, I have seen it all in regards to how our federal government likes to rule. State's literally have no power to make rules in their own house. This is rediculous. The day a state get sued by the federal government for taking a stance on what they would like in their state is something I thought I would never see. But Arizona made a believer out of me. They tell you as citizens, to get up and get out and vote. IF you want a change in the state or city that you live in. GET OUT AND VOTE. But if daddy FED doesn't like it, he will see fit that it gets changed ASAP!
I am all for immigration. As an African Amercian, I know for a fact that our presence in this great nation came by import from a land we called our home by force. But now we have the exact opposite. People leaving the nation they live in, to occupy ours, but still send finances back to their nation and loved ones to see them grow. It bothers me. Simply because if you want to be HERE and be apart of whats going on. There is a right way to do it. Jumping a fence and just occupying a city is not the way. And that used to not be a problem. Until now. The numbers are dumbfounding. To the point that African Americans are no longer the minority in this nation. Its weird. Meanwhile, I am seeing more spanish and more issues with people not being able to speak the language that our nation is based on. Its a double sided sword. On one hand you have people who are losing socially because they want to be here, but they go about it the wrong way. Then you have people who are watching jobs leave their home cities and states, simply because they can get away with paying someone less in another country. Furthermore, they can just hire someone and not document it and pay them whatever they feel like it. The immigration issue is a heavy one. And the states have to stand up and take control of it on their on. The federal government is not going to help. They only want the voting bodies present at election time, so why would they. Look at it for what it is. If your area is getting ready to elect someone to a new chair, make sure its someone that wants to solve this issue, not continue it.
In closing, the fabric that built our great nation, the blood sweat and tears from every man woman and child that walked a street or dirt roaod, is not dead. It is simply at a state of paralysis. We are shocked at what we are seeing and going through, and do not know which serpeant head to attack first. I urge you people, do not give up the fight. This nation WILL be great once agian. But for the moment, we must deal with the issues that are right in front of us, that are causing the biggest problems.
Just my opinion.
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