The U.S. government seems to hate people who want to use their God-given freedom to travel, as anyone who has dealt with the TSA can attest to. To make things even better:

Passport and passport card fees are going up by as much as 50% starting Tuesday.

Even travelers who simply need to add pages to their passports -- a service that was free -- will pay $82 now.

I read in National Review that the actual U.S. debt, including state and local debt and unfunded liabilities like Social Security, is not the pathetically tiny $14 trillion, but an impressively unpayable $130 trillion. So maybe is the time the government is starting to screw us to pay for their massive, relentless spending. Hope and change!