Taxpayers in the United States

This subject is a sore one for most if not all tax payers, increasingly having to pay higher and higher taxes for the moochers and other kinds of people that perhaps should fall under the responsibility of family if not for themselves (our elderly completely excluded.) There is a story you do not want to miss on at Yahoo.com, see link below!(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090402/ap_on_re_us/frequent_er_patients) There are some citizens from the United States, visiting other countries, that like to bitch and complain about how the government of said visiting country runs things. Let's keep in mind that most citizens from the United States aren't well versed in anything different than what they are accustomed to in the United States and they may believe it is the best way to do things, isn't necessarily always the case.

I have to admit, sometimes the other countries have the right idea. The bottom line in the UAE is, if you do not have insurance, you do not receive attention unless paying cash. There are many countries that command this. I am not sure what, if anything is offered to their elderly. If you can not prove employment, you must return to your own country. You have to be sponsored in this country by either an employer or spouse of and employee sponsored by an employer, otherwise, you must return to your country. If you are not allowed back in your own country, you must find somewhere else to go because you can't stay here.

Don't get me wrong, I am sure there are some illegals here. Hell, some apartments have upwards of 30 or more people to one apartment. Eventually, you will be found out and must return to your country because no one here can afford to carry you. Most of the immigrants here are working to send money home to their family and living on little to nothing.

Back to the US, I ask you, why should everyone else pay for the addictions, the self induced injuries, or the mental and physical diseases that others have created as a result of their own bad choices. There is no excuse for it in this day and age. Public education is free and people have been educated of the results of drugs, casual sex, cigarettes, and alcohol. For pete sake, the US government holds every parent responsible for the attendance of their children in school. You can not tell me they aren't being educated. Parents are going to court and losing their children if their kids do not attend public school. Parents are being held legally responsible for the actions of their children everyday. At what point is the government held responsible for taking advantage of its people?

Thank God they went after AIG, but who is to be held responsible for the continuance of medical and other forms of charity that they aren't offering their own citizens? I know when I was working for the Sheriff's Department, I had a severe anxiety attack on the job and had to leave work to go to the emergency room. Accounts receivable hounded me relentlessly over the bill when is was considered workman's comp. Yet, homeless and addicted people continue to receive care at some one else's expense. There are homeless that choose to be homeless. They do not have to work, hell it is too hard. Why work a nine to five as long as someone else pays for your food through charity and your medical through tax payers working nine to nines to feed their own families and pay for someone else's medical or mental issues.

Don't get me wrong, I love my country. I am severely unhappy with the government that keeps telling me I have a say so when I really don't and the citizens have become so accustomed to the government making all the decisions, they forget they have a voice and how loud it is. After all, the government is made up of people just like you and me. The difference is they are making six figure salaries and have been steadily giving themselves raises year after year. The rich keep wanting to complain about having to pay taxes on their fortunes. We have to keep paying for people that make bad choices and are rewarded with free food, clothes, and medical attention that we can't afford these things for our own families.

We have to leave our beloved country to earn enough money to pull us out of mounds of debt. Money that can not be earned in America because there are so many illegal aliens being allowed to stay in the country for one reason or another, working the jobs the citizens should have had all along. Again, let's reward the illegals for the choice to break our laws. Let's house them , feed them, educate them, and pay their medical bills whilst they laugh in our faces as we starve and go further and further into debt.