For the Motherland, America!!!

Seriously.... What's going on with this country? Before I go off in a rant, I'm a young man of 23. I don't really follow politics until the last few months before an election, like any other American. I have been trying to do my homework lately, like any other American and I still feel like my brain hasn't quite wrapped itself around exactly what is at hand. I suppose this is why we elect voices like our own into positions, to be our voices, from city politics up to national and international. I have only had the oppourtunity to vote once in my lifetime.

With that being said, I'm particularily concerned about the current "Relief" our Government has passed. From my understanding, AIG, the big-dog investor group, made a mistake and is now in deep pucky. So us, the free citizens of the United States of America, are supposed to pick up the tab? What's this all about? Why is our Government stepping in to mop up the mess of a corporation? It boggles my mind. So far, from whom I have talked to on both Democratic and Republican stances, Liberal and Conservative, have expressed deep concern with the current bill that has passed. Maybe I am working with a very small demographic, but this doesn't seem right.

The tax payers of America are concerned, yet the big guys in the house are alright and voting this in? Obama and McCain both voted in favor of this $800+ billion dollar bail out. From what I understand, there was some fluke in the market that caused AIG to become financially stagnant, very likely by their own doing. It should not be the Government's concern to bail them out.

Currently, in my eyes, this mass spread of debt over the American population, where every non working individual has to pay ~$3500 in and every working individual has to pay ~$4500 in leads me to believe that we are diving further and further into a socialist state. As a free man, this makes me extremely upset that we are to pay for a corporations wrong-doings and more worried than ever that the American's liberty is slowly being stripped away.

As I stated, I'm pretty new in this political game. I will very gladly take any input you may have. Until then, welcome to the new America, Comrade.