Fumes of Enlightenment

#661

Not from the fumes of others exhaust but from a long day of work as an accountant, dealing with the tax forms of clients, hard working, God fearing, patriotic citizens voluntarily giving their privacy and the little profits they have left to the tax man. The tax man, IRS, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, a tax cheat himself and the Secretary of the Treasury (Tim Geithner) under the direction of the House Ways and Means Committee who's Chairman (Rep Charles Rangel) is also a tax cheat.

Driving down the highway, a highway built with tax bonds that have never been paid, gas in his car for which he is still making payments, expensive gas of which 48.6 cents on each gallon is tax, to get to work, plus license tags for his car, inspection fees, permits, vehicle property tax, automobile insurance, registration fees, parking fees, just to be able to get to work to make money in order to pay tax. He first passes the local liquor store where the manager and his son, his assistant, make a total of ½ million dollars a year in salaries, bonuses, retirement, just to manage 29 employees. Employees, who are employed because they are political hacks of the local political party. Liquor, which is taxed more than 50% of it's wholesale cost.

He next passes a restaurant … where he and his family cannot afford to eat. At this time of day, it is “happy hour”. The parking lot is full of government vehicles, driven at tax payer's expense by the bureaucrats and politicians on the inside … whooping it up, soaking it up, making all the advances towards one another which will ensure their re-election, continued employment and promotion. They can deduct the money there are paying there for liquor and food because it is a business expense to them.

A new car passes him, this driver evidently, at tax payer bail out, changed a clunker which he could not pay for, for a new car, government subsidized $4500, which now he cannot make payments on. Showing the conservatism of the government, his old car was destroyed.

Next, he passes a local church, a more or less country club with a steeple. Most members have just rolled over and now are playing dead. Like the Atheist, not satisfied to just be indifferent, just want to win an argument against spirituality. Today's church goer, more interested in changing God than God changing them. If all the members of this church were on welfare, and each tithed, the church would receive more money than in present given practices. If dead people could only talk, church people would learn so much. They would learn, that the hymn book in their hand, as they lied to God, they were only fooling themselves instead of trusting God.

He now passes a school, where everything is taught except the essentials, including the surge in Atheism. Wall to wall sexuality, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and tri-sexual … try anything, if it feels good, do it, today's preparatory courses for popularity. The schools have a homosexual agenda beyond compare. One teacher said recently, “I believe half the teachers in my school are homosexual”. With new legislation sponsored by Representative Barney Frank and his fiends, the homosexual teacher can now go to school dressed in “drag”. Christian values and family values were discarded long ago by the school system. In 1963, prayer was thrown out of the school and police officers began their patrol.

He next passes a housing project. 50% of American citizens do not pay any income tax, and most live in tax subsidized housing. In this housing project, next to the school, four registered sex offenders live in Section 8 housing, their living subsidized totally by tax payers … even to food stamps and utilities. Single mothers live in most of these subsidized apartments. 40% of all children live in homes without a father … 70% of all black children. But, this is good since these children are alive, 50% of all black babies are aborted and killed.

Our accountant finally reaches home, a house which is mortgaged, furnished with furniture which he is buying on payments. He greets his wife who has arrived home from work ahead of him. Both are still trying to repay their college loans. They have been able to afford one child who sits at the table waiting for her parents to join her for supper. This child, like every child born today, owes the government $48,000 at birth. Mother had stopped at the grocery store with some coupons she clipped from the paper and squeezed from the internet in order to buy some supper. Besides the mortgage, increased ad valorem taxes, increased homeowners insurance and increased utility bills. Groceries are the last thing to be purchased.

This American male, enlightened by the fumes of his homeward bound drive then asks God to bless their food. He thinks, only by the mercy of a gracious and abundant, sovereign creator can he and his family survive this present enslavement.