Income tax and Entitlements.

Taxes and entitlements go hand in hand. Its important to understand that when you hear of government programs , whether it be food stamps , health care or housing , its not "free" money , its the peoples money.The government does not "make" money , it gets its revenue from taxpayers...us. The average American works four months to pay thier tax bill...four months!This puts you in a position to have to make tough decisions. We dont have the luxery of operating our households in a deficit situation...not for long anyway. But the government refuses to make tough decisions , it/we continue to spend money WE DONT HAVE on programs that are outdated , ineffective or redundant only to pass the debt on to our children and grandchildren.After all somebody will HAVE to pay SOMETIME , we cant push these deficits off forever.Right now as we speak , China is buying up our "debt" at an alarming rate. Do we want to explain to our children and grandchildren that China owns the US because we were unwilling to make sacrifice and the tough decisions needed to keep our country solvent?How can we explain to them that we as a people were unwilling exercise responsibility and restraint? Do we want them to work eight to ten months to pay OUR tax bill? We have an oportunity to make the tough choices and pass on a vibrant , growing America but it will require sacrifice.Who knows, maybe we'll find that with a massive overhaul of our entitlement programs that we do have the funds to keep many or most of the benefits in place , as I stated earlier many of these programs are outdated and ineficient , perhaps an overhaul could restructure programs so that they are affordable.These choices have to be made and the time is NOW! Ask yourself are you willing to say NO to more spending ,even if you have to sacrifice some entitlements that a portion of our society have grown dependent on? Are you willing to make the tough choices needed to ensure our children and grandchildren wont be slaves to our government for benefits we received and are already spent before they even joined the work force?