What's The Agenda?

"I have been driven to my knees many times, because I had no other place to go," Abe Lincoln. Not a bad place to go, if you need some type of guidance in your life. I don't think anyone in America would disagree, with the fact that our country is going through difficult times. We see daily, where countries are fighting in the streets, looking for some kind of stability in their lives. We could ask the question, "How long can we live and keep electing our leaders on false promises?" We have been hanging over the cliff for sometime. Their pay should be cut, maybe every month until the bad decisions on their part have been corrected. We are slowly being led "out" of the promised land. Could we be headed for agonizing pain, as a country, because of our disobedience?

Some friends and I were discussing our life back in the forties and fifties. We had no health insurance, no medicare, no social security, no tax deductions, no checking and saving accounts, no indoor plumbing, and in many family homes, no electricity. We were not blessed with one-a-day vitamins, fish oil, and we have more over-the-counter supplements than Carter's liver pills. Oh! We did not even have "stool softeners," We had "Grover's chill tonic", which I think was made out of the ashes from the fireplace, and Castor oil. Keep those pipes clean, and everything runs better.

The great thing is; the seven types of taxes we have in the complicated tax code. There is the "Income Taxes", "Property Taxes", "Consumptive Taxes", "Corporate Taxes", "Payroll Taxes", "Capital Gains Taxes", "Inheritance or Estate Taxes". Of course, these taxes are broken down into other taxes, such as county, city, gas and so on and so on. Benjamin Franklin once said, "Nothing is certain but death and taxes." While few people relish paying taxes, everyone enjoys having good schools, roads and services. The elected leaders of this country cannot handle the taxes we pay into the different funds. The highest elected leaders, including the President and his administration has abused personal spending for years. Our country is not headed towards Socialism, in many ways, we are there already. When people are hurting, it's very easy to accept promises, which can't always be kept. The promises buy votes, and that is what counts to many of our leaders. Why would any American citizen wish to move out of this great country into any other country, and give up their citizenship because of taxes? What if! We could just work together, listen together and join our agendas together by priority, and solve the problems we face in this country together! Big Government could be part of the problem! President Obama, pick the best from both sides and give them "the" Agenda.