This is your first, last and only warning: Rant coming up.
I supposed everyone (in the U.S. anyway) by now has heard about the Tea Party movement. If you haven’t or if you need a refresher course, they are a loosely organized group of groups that tout the idea that government has gotten too big and intrusive, the deficit is too big, and the stimulus/bail-outs measures were wrong and not needed. It is predominately made up of upper-middle class, white Conservatives (no, I’m not talking Republicans and Democrats, the group has both) who seem to have a lot of time on their hands and little regard for their fellow man. How many of these Tea Party protesters and affiliates are unemployed or under-employed? Who among them are struggling to pay mortgages or rents, struggling to put food on the table? Were the Tea Partiers willing to live with the outcome if all the banks had failed and the country had spiraled into Depression and 25% unemployment? If you think it is bad now, just image how worse it could have been. Unlike other countries that get into binds, there is no one to bail us out. I suppose the Tea Partiers want us to stop helping the Haitians, stop the fighting terrorist, and close all of our ports as well. I understand they are worried and scared, but take a minute to think about what you are asking and the consequences if you get your way. I really do not think these people did much thinking. And the rabble rousers that fanning these fears they have will drop them the minute the Tea Party movement isn’t working for them, you know, the politicians, the lobbyist, etc.
And who is paying for all this? Tea Party organizers are refusing to disclose exactly how they can afford all the conventions, Sara Palin’s $100,000 speaking fee (the $349 to $549 per ticket wouldn’t begin to cover it, and no, she did not waive her fee… and what average working class American can afford that for a ticket anyway), and the organized protests. Now they are setting up a corporation called Ensuring Liberty Corporation to create the Ensuring Liberty Political Action Committee. Yes, you heard it right, the same people protesting against lobbyist are forming their own lobby group that will be bank rolled by a corporation that allows other corporations and rich investors to anonymously donate (based on the recent Supreme Court decision that could mean billions) and it is tax exempt. But they vow to be transparent in doing this. Yeah, right.
Yes, the original people who started the Tea Party movement have been pushed aside so that a group of lobbyist representing the rich and corporations can use a one time grassroots movement to further their agenda. And these poor shmucks who will be doing all the protesting really think they are doing something for the common people.
The Mount Vernon Statement? Just a political ploy by a bunch of Conservatives to gain some support for the “God, Guns, and No Immigrants” movement that has risen up again. Yes, it is the same thing that happens every time when times are tough. Really, these people have never read the Constitution, much less know what it means or what our fore-fathers intended. Our Constitution was written, as the founding fathers themselves said, to be flexible with the changing needs of the nation (not the fickle and mostly capricious wants of the few) while still insuring that everyone is free, liberated, and served by the government. Did they not read that the Federal Government is the rule of the land, and what powers it does not take upon itself can then be disseminated to state and local levels. And what gets my goat the most is that the people who signed this document are the very same people clamoring for more security at the detriment of personal freedoms, advocating torture, and killing small business and entrepreneurship.
Hate me if you want, you still have that freedom for now, but I will not guarantee that you will if these people get in the government.
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