Why Work So Hard?

I'm really beginning to question if I'm losing the will to work.  During the time that I took off for a couple of months, we tightened our belt
and were able to live off my wife's salary with no perks.  We were fine.  I got a lot of progress on our house project.  Now that
I'm working, little progress is being made on the house, and I'm looking at the political climate as far as prospects of being taxed
more for working hard.  I'm starting to think that the stress of work is too much.  Why work if the government is just
going to steal what little reward I get, so that they can give it to someone that doesn't work as hard as I do?

I had been thinking about taking a second job to get some extra money, but then that makes little sense if it's just going to allow
them to steal more from me.  Why do it?

And as far as the investments I have, I'd rather pull it out of stocks and just keep it in money markets; which don't pay as much
but are more secure (relatively speaking).  So what if not investing in stocks means fewer jobs.  So what.  If the
government doesn't care and the 30% out there that don't pay taxes don't care, then why should I care?

My new job is more stressful than the last.  I'm being paid a little more, but I'm stressed a whole lot more.  I'm
starting to feel like the stress is too much and the rewards aren't going to be worth it in an Obama economy.

I'll flat out tell you that I'm frustrated with the bailouts.  This last bailout protected a number of US corporations from
stock shorting; but all that did was make those guys find new companies to short, like the companies I have a little bit of stock
in.  So the bailouts took money out of my pocket to give to the execs that drove Wall Street into the ground, and so they
can continue to give bonuses (how are bonuses awarded in a company that virtually went bankrupt?).  They took money from
me and made what I had left in my pocket less valuable.  And now those companies are protected from stock shorting, but my
companies are not.  Guess what, my companies, who looked promising before, now are virtually worthless.

So why work?

I don't believe Obama for a second when he says he'll only tax the rich (those that make more than $250,000 a year). 
His website says $200,000.  Which is it?

Joe Biden says $150,000.  SO which one of those figures is it?

Bill Clinton told us the same thing when he was campaigning, and in the end, his protecting the middle class hit my wife and I
with the biggest tax increase I can remember.  I have no reason to trust Obama.  I have no reason to trust Biden.

I don't know if I can trust McCain, but at least he isn't promising a tax increase with a moving threshhold.  Maybe he'd
raise my taxes too.  I just don't trust Obama when he says that he wont.  And the idea of working and sacrificing like
my wife and I have been doing these last few years, seems fruitless if it's just going to be stolen from us to give to people
that wont work and wont sacrifice.

And give me a break when you want to suggest that those folks out there are going to get 'their fair share' from the rest of us,
have been sacrificing.  I don't know any that work two jobs.  And I remember when my little company couldn't make
payroll and when we were issuing stock to employees instead of payment.  I remember when we tried to give some of these
potential opportunities to people (poor people) and they wouldn't take them.  They wanted cold hard cash, with no risk
on their part.  I took the risk and sacrificed.  And now that it's about to pay off, they want to share in the rewards. 
Pardon the expression, but that's bullshit.  That's not their fair share.  That's Marxism and it's flat out wrong.

So under an Obama Administration, I do not intend to work hard.  I do not intend to sacrifice or invest.  I intend to
hold onto what little my wife and I have.  If jobs suffer because of it, I think those 30% of the freeloaders that voted
so that they could get "their fair share' can just whallow in it.  They got it and now they'll suffer the most, because it'll
be their jobs that will go first.