The Tea Bag, er, I mean Tea Party movement, has as its intended goal "returning Conservative fiscal responsibility and limited government to the United States through the exercise of political activism", as taken from the website Conservapedia. While I certainly don't have a problem with the first part of that statement, "fiscal responsibility", I believe that most poor tea partiers are so misguided in the focus of their resentment, that being the Democratic Party. And, unfortunately, most folks that belong to the Tea Party movement probably watch Fox News, the most unabashedly biased pretense for a news organization.
Fox News, begun by uber-conservative Rupert Murdoch, is as right-wing as they come. Not that folks don't have the right to their political persuasion, but, when one claims to be "Fair and Balanced", and yet injects conservative political commentary into the most innocuous of reports, one can hardly claim to be fair, or balanced. (Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac wrote a great song: "Murrow Turning Over In His Grave" about Edward Murrow, an American broadcast journalist of the highest caliber who died in 1965. He would be mortified to see what American news has morphed into..... "Half-closed eyes and unconcious death; Do you feel the ooze as your brain drains out" <----- (does this refer to the ignorant American public).
Who have been some of the largest sponsors of the Tea Party movement? For starters, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News. Also, Texas billionaire brothers David & Charles Koch are among the largest single sponsors of conservative causes, including the Tea Party. The question is why would middle to lower middle class Americans, those who have lost their jobs to layoffs and outsourcing, those who can't afford health insurance, or perhaps work for some greedy company like McDonalds or WalMart where a decent health insurance plan is unaffordable considering the poverty level wages they pay; why would these Americans buy into the propaganda of the rich?
The Tea Party says that Americans are overtaxed. Really? Currently, the top tax bracket is 35%. President Obama states that he wants the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans to expire and revert to it's previous rate of 38.6%. This is what the Tea Baggers are afraid of? That Rupert Murdoch and the billionaire Koch brothers are going to have to pay a few more dollars to the federal treasury for the pleasure and opportunity of doing business in these United States? So, if one makes $1,000,ooo.00 in a year, your take-home pay is going to go from $650,000 to $614,000 if the tax cuts expire. I'm supposed to feel sorry for your ass???!!! Just thank god you weren't in the top tax bracket in 1970, when Nixon (a Republican) was president. You'd be paying 71.75% tax on your income. And you're freaking whining about a 3.6% increase? Actually, we should just say, "Fuck you. We're doubling your tax rate." The top bracket, by the way, in 1944-1945 was 94%.
Not only did the Republican Congress and President Bush get us into 2 wars, they also cut taxes. Tea baggers are complaining about the deficit.... blaming the poor Democrats and Mr. Obama. But, in reality, it was Bush and the Republican Congress who squandered the budget surplus left by Clinton. It was Bush and the Republican Congress who decided to charge two wars by borrowing from the Chinese. Aside from those foolhardy policies, tea baggers also think that the bailouts were a bad thing. Let's see. If we hadn't bailed out Chrysler and GM, an estimated 3 million more American jobs would have been lost. And this would have been good for America? How, pray tell?
The notion that these Tea baggers are wanting to vote these same idiots back in control astounds me?? It can only speak of the dumbing-down of America. That's exactly what the likes of Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers want.
