Disgusted

I’m so effing disgusted I don’t know what to do! When I first joined the Marine Corps in 1971, I was meritoriously promoted to PFC upon graduation from boot camp. My salary was $149.10 a month, $1789.20 a year. As a normal work year is 2080 hours; that equates to about 86 cents per hour. When I got off active duty in 1977, I was making a blazing $671.10 per month base pay. When I joined the Chesterfield County Police Department the same year, I was making $9300 a year. In 1979 I had a brand new house built. It wasn’t anything fancy. A rancher with 1.5 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, on 1.5 acres, it was more than adequate. At $35,000 I wondered how I would pay for it. As it turned out, it was not a problem. Somehow I always managed to have money in my pocket. I paid as I went and didn’t over extend myself.
Fast forward to 2006 when I retired from the police department. I had built a new house six years previously on 8 acres. It had three bedrooms, each with a full bathroom, a nice big living room with a guest half-bathroom. The mortgage was for $124,000. I since acquired an F-250 diesel pickup truck and two Harley-Davidson motorcycles. These possessions represent my life’s work. The things that got lost along the way are collateral damage and not worth mentioning any more. Over the past 38 years, a significant portion of my earnings have been taken in the form of taxes. I have never objected to paying my fair share in the past. I am now, however having a change of heart. There are many people in this country, legally or otherwise, who have not contributed their fair share and I am losing my sense of humor with them and the liberal government that wants to subsidize them, at my expense.
I never had children, but I pay for schools, busses, teachers and special programs that parents demand for their kids. I have dogs that do not cost anyone other than me money. I have to buy a license for them. Why don’t parents have to purchase a license for their kids? Why do I have to subsidize them? Why am I required to contribute funds to people that are third or fourth generation welfare recipients who have never worked and have no intention of ever working?
I suppose part of my disgust is the realization that 52% of the population wants to socialize this country. I also realize that of that 52%, many are the recipients, not contributors, of the welfare and entitlement mentality who do nothing for the good of the cause. With this many socialists and welfare recipients, it is not mathematically possible for working Americans to have a voice that is heard anymore. Politicians make a career of their chosen field. They depend on votes. It does not appear to make a difference to them that a majority of their voters are sponges upon the rest of us who provide the finances to enable their lifestyle. I’m disgusted and I don’t know if I’m gonna get over it any time soon.