Americans spend a lot of their money on necessary things
that now cost a lot more than anybody ever thought they would. We are all stuck with a home mortgage or rent
bill and basic utility bills for electric, natural gas, water, telephone and
property taxes. These bills have always been with us, but now they cost 10
times more than they used to cost.
Most of us have automobiles and we are required to have
automobile insurance and immediately replace burned out front and rear lights
or we get fined.
Many of us have televisions and internet and are billed for
these. We also have cell phones that act as cameras, video recorders, internet
connectivity and lots more, but they cost more than land lines.
We now spend lots of money on unnecessary things we used to
do without. We used to get our pets free from neighbors or animal shelters and
these mutts never got sick, but now we pay big bucks to buy them at pet
stores. Pets used to be healthier, but
now we can rack up lots of veterinarian bills.
We used to play ball in vacant lots, but now we sign up for sports teams
with uniforms and coaches and play at expensive tax funded sports complexes. We
used to have swing sets in our back yards, but now we go to expensive tax
funded parks. We used to have blow-up plastic pools and games in the back yard,
but now we go to the subdivision pool and tennis courts. We used to celebrate
birthdays at home with a birthday cake we baked. Now we buy the cake and rent a
blow-up slide or go to a “party facility”.
We used to cut our own grass and apply our own fertilizer
and water it with a hose, but now we hire out the yard work and have an
in-ground automatic sprinkler system. We used to do our own home maintenance
and painting, but now we hire contractors. We used to maintain our own
automobiles, but now they are too complicated to work on.
I used to go to schools where the buildings were over 100
to 200 years old, but the buildings were well maintained and upgraded and the
education was much better and much cheaper. I used to ride my bike everywhere,
but today moms don’t want their kids to be out of their sight. I got to work my way through school, pay my
own expenses and had no student loans, but those days are past.
We have tried to survive on the “service economy” we were
left with after we exported our manufacturing jobs to other countries and
imported welfare refugees to take whatever jobs that were left. The cost of our
socialist policies has soared and our wages have stagnated and we are now just
like Europe. It’s time to increase our
productivity to dig our way out of this hole.
Today, consumer debt in the US is now $12.7 trillion. US government debt is over $20 trillion with
unfunded liabilities of $124 trillion. Our situation in the US is similar to
the economic decline we saw in Europe after the expenses they paid to rebuild
after World War I and World War II and were losing their colonial holdings. The
Trump agenda is the key to restoring our economy. We also need to tighten up
and pay down our debts.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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