Class Dismissed

Well, where to begin? So many things have happened in recent months that caused me irritation. The election for one left me enraged and confused. I still find it impossible to understand how the very people that tell the government to let them make their own decisions, want a government that will catch them when they fail and tell them how to live their lives. How do I come to this conclusion you ask? Well the current administration has no problem telling me that I must purchase a service, then they call it a tax? I thought a tax was only to be levied by the government, not by a for profit insurance company. Then the same administration starts spouting about the "lower, middle, and upper" class. Did I miss that day in U.S. History when they taught the preamble to the Constitution as "We the middle class of the United States in order to form a more perfect socialist state"? No, ALL men are created equal. I have the same rights and responsibilities as every other citizen of this country. Contrary to popular opinion, a citizen of this country cannot be singled out to pay more than his or her equal share of taxes simply because he makes more money than another. Isn't that taxation without equal representation? After all, that person only has one vote, why is he taxed more than the rest of the population. Buried deep in the answer to that question is the definition of political persecution. Yes this country has a monstrous white elephant in the middle of the D.C. Beltway that nobody wants to talk about. Politicians only want to feed us enough information to keep us ignorant to what they are really doing. We, collectively, have no sense of ourselves in the big picture. Too many people care only about their smart phones and physical appearance, or what car they drive. Personally, if you think the only way you can get my attention is to flash your Mont Blanc pen and your new Iphone, then I don't want to waste my time on you. If you think that someone gives a hairy rat about anybody but themselves, you are naive and should give yourself a good wake up slap across the face. The President re-elect was re-elected because he pandered to the largest concern of each of us, what he can do for us as individuals. Recently it has become acceptable to be greedy for someone else's money but not acceptable to be greedy for our own. True, when the pilgrims established a colony in the "new world", it was a socialist idea. Profit was not permitted, in fact was punishable by death. This is not what our constitution was written to protect. All of us are only entitled to life liberty and pursuit of happiness. Nowhere does it say guarantee of happiness, nor does it redistribute my money to someone that can't or has given up trying to find a job. Not one "Founding Father" ever mentioned anything about the "American Dream", that expression was made up by businesses to try to sell you something. The American Dream is to serve your fellow countrymen and to in fact shake your finger in the face of ANYONE that does not take your opinion or views seriously simply because it is shared by a political party that they disagree with. The repetitive discussion of classes is not only idiotic but damaging. The first step of totalitarianism is to point to a group of people and convince the public that "they" are to blame for your lot in life, that it's "their" fault that you haven't achieved your goals. Grow UP, and take responsibility for your actions.