Folks, we’re being fleeced and it’s happening right underneath our own noses! A report released by USA Today shows that taxpayers are in the hole for about $59 trillion. That’s more than $516 thousand per household! Damn it! The government spent way more than it earned last year and now we have an even bigger debt than we had before the last fiscal year end.

This is mind-boggling! And it’s not a Republican vs. Democrat thing like a lot of you political extremists hoped it would be. Both parties spend recklessly while saying, “Oh well - it’s only tax dollars. There’s always more where that came from!”

Have the people of this nation forgot that the American Colonies pissed off the British Empire because a tax on TEA?!? Tea! We were charged a penny per box of tea or something and the settlers went ape shit, threw the tea into the Boston Harbor, and gave the British a respective “F You” for their taxes.

Now, I’m never one to say that America’s government is completely wrong and needs to be changed. I am, however, one to say that when something is broke, it is up to the people to fix it. And lucky for us in America, we have the best form of government in the history of man - we just have a lot of the wrong men and women who are running that government right now (Republican and Democrat alike).

It’s high time that the people took over. Men like Newt Gingrich endorses policies that require America to not spend more than it takes it. Men like Bill Clinton made this political feat common during his time as President. There are women like Condi Rice who are wholly committed to maintaining the United States’ status in the world. She is joined by women like Elizabeth Dole and even women like Geraldine Ferraro.

There ARE worthy leaders in this country who do not believe that this type of fleecing of American wealth is necessary, proper, or legal. We need to find these people, put them in office, and let them fix the mess that tax-and-spend liberals and compassionate-but-cash-poor conservatives have given this country.

We need normal politicians!

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