Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
I agree. To call what we have in the US slavery is to really diminish the idea of slavery. It's not fair to those who suffer real slavery.

When you evaluate the American system, you need to compare it to what went before in history and to what it's like in the rest of the world. Our freedoms and opportunities here now in the US are far better than in most of history and better than in most of the rest of the world. It's certainly not perfect, but it compares well to what has been accomplished in other places and other times. If you ever don't appreciate what you have here, talk to someone who came here from somewhere else --- that has always been an eye-opener for me.

The only "slavery" I ever feel in my life is the need to spend more time working than I like to make ends meet and sometimes having to do work I don't really enjoy --- the idea of the wage slave. The real problem there is the mental slavery of consumerism, but you can always opt out of that system if you want to. If you choose to cut back on the material goods that you need from society, you can cut your expenses so much that your time can be pretty much your own.
Like I was explaining earlier there are different forms of slavery. We are slaves to a system that relies on our wages to support their spending habits. The Federal Government believes that our wages are 100% theirs and that they are being nice when they forcefully take a certain percentage. I have no say as to where my tax dollars go which I think is insane since it is my money! We also have inflation which is killing our economy and in turn making us work harder and longer hours just to put food on the table. We should not be punished because they're unable to balance a budget. There is a simple answer to all our financial problems and that is to CUT spending. Our Government has become too big and we are supporting their growth. I say cut the spending, and the lies and give the country back to the people who make it what it is today.