You right, it is rough being rich. What he is trying to say is that if you want to live in a country that gives you the chance to become wealthy, it will cost you something. Our system could use lots of improvement though. I remember how much is sucked when I was preparing for college, I was not rich enough to pay for it on my own, but I was not poor enough to qualify for need based scholarships.

I do think the government hemorrhages money, but to really fix that, we have to reevaluate what it means to be an American. We demand a lot but we are not willing to give anything. No politician can get elected if they promise to balance the budget because that means the social services many depend upon will end and it means we cannot afford to finance our military. We would have to give up things like our unemployment benefits and having the best military in the world.

I also hate when people start throwing words like socialists and fascist around. We are in a crisis and cannot resort to labeling other economic philosophies as un-American. Also, fascism and socialism are two separate things (this isn’t directed towards anyone specifically, but it just annoys me when people use these terms interchangeably).

We can either continue business as usual wasting money and saying that hard working rich people are suffering so poor people can continue to be lazy, or we can stop and rethink what kind of country we want to live in and what we will be willing to sacrifice to get it.