"The Money Tree!"

I'm a home owner , who has never had a bail-out of any kind , I live within my means. I was taught not to spend more then I make. My mother used to say ," Go out in the yard and shake the tree and see if any money falls out", I soon found out we didn't have a money tree in our back yard. As we enter the Christmas season Americans are facing an economic situation that doesn't favor much discretionary spending , most of us are minding our finances carefully.Over Thanksgiving our church donated dinners to several families who are facing a severe financial crisis at a time while their children look to them for some simple Christmas presents. The "horn of plenty" that once was America seems to be disappearing before our eyes as un-employment continues to climb our Congress has been pushing a health-care bill that will give us an added debt unprecedented in U.S. history. We have suffered as a nation because of "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" , giving out loans to those who couldn't afford them , then watching the bottom fall out of the market because of these spurious institutions. We have troops in harms way in the middle east and our Congress wants to issue a war tax to finance our military commitments. The proposed tax would start at 1% to people earning $30,000 and get progressively higher as ones income rose. I seem to remember a candidate who promised tax relief to lower income families , but I guess we can all forget that one.As Harry Reid bought votes for Obama-care he promised hundreds of millions of dollars for pork projects to those senators who were sitting on the fence , we as a nation are tightening our belts on all fronts in our daily lives. If we need finances for our efforts in Afghanistan wouldn't it be more prudent to use that "pork bribe money" to help our troops , rather than grease the wheels of Obama-care! Last January we plunged our country into tremendous debt , and we have been digging a deeper hole continually since then. It seems that our Congress wants to "shake the money tree" again rather then exercise good judgement in the financial responsibilities of our nation. Unless we make our voices heard to those now control our monetary interests , life in the United States will be altered in ways that are nearly beyond comprehension. Sweden pays over 40% in taxes , soon it will be us if we allow these current policies to move forward. America let's tell Congress they can't "shake the tree" any more , we are suffering while they spend like "drunken sailors"on a causes that the majority of the people don't want. Let's put some coal in Congress's stocking this year!