Are you fed up with Taxes? No, really?

A message to all those who have taken to the streets recently, in protest of big government and too many taxes. First of all, I am curious to know whom amongst you is really paying more taxes than your were 5 years ago? That aside, you want to protest something? Try this. A guy who flips burgers in the green zone of Iraq for one of the government's (no-bid) contracted companies earns around $84,000 a year. A guy fixing refrigerators about $130,000. And do you know who is paying for that work. You! Because our last administration saw fit to hand out these contracts to non-government, (aka private) contractors to do the work of an over stretched military in a region of the world the US military should not even be in. You want to protest that? I am right behind you.