When envisioned, many imagine America as the land of opportunity and freedom. However, America isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Most people are barely skating by, some are well off and thriving, but very few have wealth and riches. Living with the economics of America, Americans bond each other in circumstances that are not beneficial so that they may stay or remain at the top and watch when others are trampled over as if their hands are tied. America has many faults as its history is filled with events that display exploitation of its citizens and others around them. America’s entire philosophy is “that all men are created equal” and that we have “inalienable rights.” When a child first learns how to tie their shoes, talk, or write, the knowledge of how to execute these mundane tasks is there. Just as it is paramount, that most children know how to do these things even when they turn old and gray, so it is that a citizen of America is free, can do as they please, and are equal. Benjamin Banneker, on the issue of slavery, emphasizes to Thomas …show more content…
S. citizen’s civic duty to pay the taxes levied by the country no matter how large or small. However, the government and other businesses gain money from the public, but don’t have plans for retribution. They just continue to take from the people as if the public are money wells that are only for government and businesses and shouldn’t be distributed to the families of the “money wells.” During his term, it had seemed that Kennedy understood that “sacrifices [were] being asked of citizen” which is why he asked businesses to reduce their prices in the first place, so that the citizens wouldn’t feel overwhelmed by the constant cloud of debt hanging over them. “The facts of the matter are that there is no justification for an increase” when everyone is going through financial troubles and so it is very uncouth of these businesses and the government to benefit from the people’s