We Have Come Down To Their Level

                Please bear with me on this....for on the face of it....it may not seem like much. We have in America for the longest time had two ideologies opposed to each other. That opposition was easily detected in taxation. The one side wanted things for itself....whether it was cultural or 'free money' type of things....and taxes were the easiest way to get them. The other side looked at this....and protested...."you are taking something....from me.....money in this case....making it harder for me to provide for my family the way that I want to provide for my family." So essentially.....one side wanted something for themselves....and the other side did not want something taken from them! The latter side was standing on firmer ethical ground....the high ground if you will.
                 A subtle change has taken place over the past few years. Concerning the former side....the side that sees taxes only as a way of getting something that they want....this has remained the same. It is with the latter or the other side where something has significantly changed. Their focus has changed to....cutting benefits....instead of cutting taxes.
                 At face value it may seem that cutting benefits has the same general goals as cutting taxes....and there indeed is some rational thought there....but the difference is on the ethical or the higher ground side of it. For in the former ways....there was a good and a bad....there was a higher ground....but in the new way....the focus on cutting benefits....(expenditures would be a word they would use instead)....they now also....want something for themselves....more profits....or the potential for more profits.
                 There is no higher ground in this situation. No one is ethically superior....both sides are ethically challenged....both sides now only want something for themselves. So formerly we had a moral battle going on....where half the country was at least trying to do something that was right....but today....neither side is concerned with what is right or what is wrong....for both sides only want something for themselves.
                  Compounding the problem....without a moral foundation....which we no longer have....cutting benefits or cutting expenditures....places one in the same situation as those who tax only to get things for themselves....in this case....taking things from others....for ourselves.