Dear Angry American, Joining Tea Party NOT Your Only Option

OMG. The sky is falling.

I think the Tea Party has that prhase copyrighted...

Wayne Harrison wrote: I think the Tea Party has that prhase copyrighted...

prhase? rofllol Sorry, I could not resist.

Fat fingers on old hands.

Arianna needs to find someone to oppose the moderate Obama in the Dem primary and put this country back on the track to full fledged socialism! Obama couldn't even pass the goverment option for healthcare. Maybe Kucinich?

"The sky is falling."

Wayne Harrison wrote: I think the Tea Party has that prhase copyrighted...

On a serious note, aren't you saying the same thing?

Wayne Harrison wrote: The Tea Party wants to slash government spending/programs, forgetting the money spent actually goes into the economy.

Just wait till our infrastructure is crumbling from lack of government spending and people are out of work with nowhere to turn.

You go tell the highway construction workers on 285 they're out of a job because you're stopping the stimulus. Tell the mother her kid is going to die because you're overturning health care reform, tell a homeowner in trouble they're losing their home because you're not lending money to banks in trouble, tell an elderly couple there's no more social security, no food stamps, no medicare. They're all on their own.

Look how great the TABOR amendment worked out for Colorado.

Wayne, when the economy was booming, we experienced bridge collapses, road problems and countless infrastructure failures. Why? Because people more concerned with their piece of the pie, than doing their job have been running our country. There have been strikes and other shutdowns within government and business without the end of the world as we know it (TEOTWAWKI).
It seems you have a serious phobia of the TEA Party because you can't just accept that its people who are truely pissed about what is happening in this nation. You seem to spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to figure a way to blame it all on the Republican Party, the Libertarian billionaires, etc. Help is out there, you just have to seek it.

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Wayne Harrison wrote: The Tea Party wants to slash government spending/programs, forgetting the money spent actually goes into the economy.

Just wait till our infrastructure is crumbling from lack of government spending and people are out of work with nowhere to turn.

You go tell the highway construction workers on 285 they're out of a job because you're stopping the stimulus. Tell the mother her kid is going to die because you're overturning health care reform, tell a homeowner in trouble they're losing their home because you're not lending money to banks in trouble, tell an elderly couple there's no more social security, no food stamps, no medicare. They're all on their own.

Look how great the TABOR amendment worked out for Colorado.

The only problem with that line of thinking is that before the government can spend the money, it must first take that money out of the economy for its own use, along with a percentage of it for administration and overhead, of course. So they actually put less into the economy than they remove from it, which is why the overreaching federal programs have put the nation $14 Trillion in the red with another $107.5 Trillion worth of unfunded promises that they have to keep.

Federal tax revenues, less the tax levied for being employed otherwise known as payroll taxes, amounted to a little more than $1.4 Trillion dollars. "Discretionary" spending items, including the ones that the federal government has no business being in, the Depts of Education, HUD, Health and Human Services and the like, plus the interest on the debt comes to a little over $1.5 Trillion, a deficit of about $120 Billion instead of a number that is 11x that amount.

The reason that TABOR didn't work out for Colorado was because the social welfare spending increased beyond what the revenues increased. "Mandatory" spending items that the taxpayers have been saddled with by the various legislatures is what necessitated the drop in spending on the critical infrastructure and safety items that the government was actually created to oversee.

The banks wouldn't have gotten themselves in so much trouble without the government guarantees that accompanied the FHA loans and the mortgage backed securities issued by Fannie and Freddie. The cost of health care and health insurance would be much lower without the government mandates about what must be covered. If the government had never started the Social Security and Medicare Ponzi schemes there would be no need to address the lack of money in those programs or to borrow against the earnings of the posterity to provide for them.

To paraphrase a great statesman, more government is not the solution to a problem, government is usually the source of the problem to begin with.

Exactly!! Here are some quotes that I think fit the Tea Party. And they certainly stand for what I believe in. I think they are the opposite beliefs of what the Democratic Party stands for, at least that is how they vote. They come from Dr. Rogers' 1996 work Ten Secrets for a Successful Family, page 138.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.

You don't multiply wealth by dividing it.

Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn't first take from somebody else.

Whenever somebody receives something without working for it, somebody else has to work for it without receiving.

The worst thing that can happen to a nation is for half of the people to get the idea they don't have to work because somebody else will work for them, and the other half to get the idea that it does no good to work because they don't get to enjoy the fruit of their labor.