Where's my Bush tax cut?

I payed more in taxes last year than a lot of people earn working 40 hour weeks. I'm doing all right, but I'm by no means rich. My wife works part time from home in order to be with our kids. I drive a ten year-old car, just bought a two year-old minivan, live in an old 1400 square foot bungalow, and just went on my first real vacation in four years. I see all these McMansions with SUVs sprouting up around here and I wonder: Who the hell are these people? Then I get all of these offers in the mail from real estate agents, mortgage companies and car dealers, and I realize that those people don't make any more than I do, they just borrow more money than I do and work two full-time jobs just to keep up with payments.

Fuck that, I'm having none of it. Hell, I think I'm living extravagantly because we bought a 27 inch flat-screen TV to replace our old 19 inch CRT, and I got a new mountain bike (actually last year's floor model). The shit is about to hit the fan, as Jake alluded to below, we can't keep up this phony economy of paper shuffling and revolving debt. The writing is on the wall people. Dump the crap you don't actually own anyway and learn a trade.