Wow ! I was talking with a good friend who has a Masters in Finace . He is a pretty sharp guy and VP with a major Company .
We were talking "average wages" and he was saying they now pay about $100,000 . a year for a average employee . He said that is about lower/middle income . I about crapped .
While Wages do go up to "sometimes help" offset raising cost of goods , what is a person on a fixed income suppose to do . I see each year as retired folks do with a little less because their buying dollar will not go as far anymore .
Just seems to me that America has its priorites a little backwards .
Me, I guess I am very fortunate as I never believed the goverment would help much anyway and growing up poor I learned to watch my spending . I been called cheap . I also been called frugal . All I know is I make my own way now and depend on no one to survive .
I do know my own goverment never did much to help its own people other than to raise taxes .
Yes ,we are one nation that is always saying we are free to live the way we want ,but at what price ? Are we really that free ? Let me put it another way .
The average working American works 5 months a year just to pay all his goverment tax obligations . That does not sound so free to me ?
If our goverment is taking away 30 - 50% of your income to support itself , tell me how that makes me so free again ???
If you decide to give that "so called freedom" up , you can . But please remember that you must , by law ,signed by President Bush ,leave 50% of your total worth behind as punishment for leaving .
Don't believe me ???? Look it up .
So now ,good Americans that can't afford to live here and decide to go find a cheaper place to exist are now being punished by the same goverment that says it cares .These same Americans are crimnals in the eyes of America because in order to take the money that they earned and paid taxes on already they must now try to sneak out of the U.S. ,like a common criminal.
Enjoy your freedom , You earned it ......
We were talking "average wages" and he was saying they now pay about $100,000 . a year for a average employee . He said that is about lower/middle income . I about crapped .
While Wages do go up to "sometimes help" offset raising cost of goods , what is a person on a fixed income suppose to do . I see each year as retired folks do with a little less because their buying dollar will not go as far anymore .
Just seems to me that America has its priorites a little backwards .
Me, I guess I am very fortunate as I never believed the goverment would help much anyway and growing up poor I learned to watch my spending . I been called cheap . I also been called frugal . All I know is I make my own way now and depend on no one to survive .
I do know my own goverment never did much to help its own people other than to raise taxes .
Yes ,we are one nation that is always saying we are free to live the way we want ,but at what price ? Are we really that free ? Let me put it another way .
The average working American works 5 months a year just to pay all his goverment tax obligations . That does not sound so free to me ?
If our goverment is taking away 30 - 50% of your income to support itself , tell me how that makes me so free again ???
If you decide to give that "so called freedom" up , you can . But please remember that you must , by law ,signed by President Bush ,leave 50% of your total worth behind as punishment for leaving .
Don't believe me ???? Look it up .
So now ,good Americans that can't afford to live here and decide to go find a cheaper place to exist are now being punished by the same goverment that says it cares .These same Americans are crimnals in the eyes of America because in order to take the money that they earned and paid taxes on already they must now try to sneak out of the U.S. ,like a common criminal.
Enjoy your freedom , You earned it ......