Drained.

I will be 46 years old, my mother will be 70, and my grandparents will be 101 and 96 respectively. It is in that year, and that day and age, that Social Security will run out and no longer fund those that have worked their lives for its very existence. I will more than likely still be working feverishly, while mom will hopefully be living a peaceful life in retirement. The reality is that she will most likely be doing so without the help of good ole' Uncle Sam.

Where has our country gone? What has happened to the American dream? The dream that once fueled a handful of English immigrants to stand up to the most powerful monarchy on Earth and fight for their freedom, and their chance at living a life better that what they had. Is that fire still alive? Is it still out their somewhere? I believe that that life has set sail and I fear its just about to cross over the edge into the unknown, never to burn again.

Most assuredly I will have no federally funded retirement (in terms of Social Security). My hopes are high though for my federal pension, once my tenure as a Fed has completed. But again that is all hinged on the many changes taking place in Washington.

With the 112th Congress under way, I am hoping that the GOP will somehow full fill everything that they say can do. As a registered Democrat I have my doubts in the GOP however, it is time for bi-partisanship and laying down the harsh facts to the public and ourselves. As a country we are failing financially, plain and simple. Why then do we insist on blaming each other for mistakes that started over 50 years ago? This isn't Bushes fault, this isn't Obama's fault, its EVERY ONES fault. For to long we have lifted the American dollar above all else and spent like children in a candy store with an unlimited credit card. We created these debts it should then be our prerogative to pay our dues.

I may not have the best ideas on how to fix our financial prosperity, but I know that their are thousands of honest Americans that have made financial rescue their living. Why then can we not pick them to reconstruct, reinvent, and restore our financial system to what it once was? Is it REALLY that difficult?
It's already a fact that our children, their children, and even perhaps their grandchildren will be paying the ever surmounting deficit that seems to metastasize hourly. All thanks to a generation long gone.

 Lets work to together, quit acting like children, and fix this diseased country. Together, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.