What the Tea Parties were all about ...

medicineman said:

It's a socialistic capitalism system that I seek. One where both ideals can co-exist. We must be socially conscience, with the will to make this country work for all citizens. A country that cares more about the will and condition of it's citizens than it does about, say, the military.
We have the largest military on the planet and found out that a few obsessed guys can take out 3,000 people plus and destroy our financial center with a couple of domestic planes.
It is our horrendous foriegn policies that make the world hate us. Those corporations that go to 3rd world countries and rape and pillage that need our military to back them up. Who pays for that, us, the lowly taxpayers.
Think about what that money spent on the military could do for the country, free medical for every citizen, free college for every child. Rebuild the infrastructure and the school system. I want a government that cares more about it's people than it's corporations.

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TheBrutalTruth said:

Both Ideals can not co-exist

The problem is that Socialism relies on Theft and Coercion and Capitalism (pure Capitalism not the Fascist Capitalism we have here) does not.

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medicineman said:

Absolutely the brainwashed version of this theory. You, my friend, can't see the forest for the trees. Actually, it is somewhat what we have now, only with more emphathis on the Capitalism and less on socialism. When they are in balance, (Yes they can be) why wouldn't this be a better country. Societies are responsible for their citizens, or rather they should be. Can any of you righties envision what this country would be like without government? I'll give you a clue, People like me would be caving in your head for a few bucks to feed my family. No government, no cops, Badasses would rule. No matter how much you had, there would be someone with more trying to get yours, It would come down to who had the largest gang. Right now, that position is filled by government. Just remember, we have the power to change government.

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ViRedd said:

OBAMA'S RECIPE FOR CHANGE NOT MY CUP OF TEA
by Ann Coulter
April 15, 2009

I had no idea how important this week's nationwide anti-tax tea parties were until hearing liberals denounce them with such ferocity. The New York Times' Paul Krugman wrote a column attacking the tea parties, apologizing for making fun of "crazy people." It's OK, Paul, you're allowed to do that for the same reason Jews can make fun of Jews.

On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name "tea parties" to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as "tea bagging." Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies "tea bagging."

Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with.

Except no one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them "tea parties."

But if the Republicans were calling them "tea-bagging parties," the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand, they're not called "tea-bagging parties." (That, of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Frank's condo in Georgetown.)

You know what else would be hilarious? It would be hilarious if Hillary Clinton's name were "Ima Douche." Unfortunately, it's not. It was just a dream. Most people would wake up, realize it was just a dream and scrap the joke. Not MSNBC hosts.

The point of the tea parties is to note the fact that the Democrats' modus operandi is to lead voters to believe they are no more likely to raise taxes than Republicans, get elected and immediately raise taxes.

Apparently, the people who actually pay taxes consider this a bad idea.

Obama's biggest shortcoming is that he believes the things believed by all Democrats, which have had devastating consequences every time they are put into effect. Among these is the Democrats' admiration for raising taxes on the productive.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving "tax cuts" to people who don't pay taxes. Evidently, offering to expand welfare payments isn't a big vote-getter.

Even Bush had a "stimulus" bill that sent government checks to lots of people last year. Guess what happened? It didn't stimulate the economy. Obama's stimulus bill is the mother of all pork bills for friends of O and of Congressional Democrats. ("O" stands for Obama, not Oprah, but there's probably a lot of overlap.)

And all that government spending on the Democrats' constituents will be paid for by raising taxes on the productive.

Raise taxes and the productive will work less, adopt tax shelters, barter instead of sell, turn to an underground economy -- and the government will get less money.

The perfect bar bet with a liberal would be to wager that massive government deficits in the '80s were not caused by Reagan's tax cuts. If you casually mentioned that you thought Reagan's tax cuts brought in more revenue to the government -- which they did -- you could get odds in Hollywood and Manhattan. (This became a less attractive wager in New York this week after Gov. David Paterson announced his new plan to tax bar bets.)

The lie at the heart of liberals' mantra on taxes -- "tax increases only for the rich" -- is the ineluctable fact that unless taxes are raised across the board, the government won't get its money to fund layers and layers of useless government bureaucrats, none of whom can possibly be laid off.

How much would you have to raise taxes before any of Obama's constituents noticed? They don't pay taxes, they engage in "tax-reduction" strategies, they work for the government, or they're too rich to care. (Or they have off-shore tax shelters, like George Soros.)

California tried the Obama soak-the-productive "stimulus" plan years ago and was hailed as the perfect exemplar of Democratic governance.

In June 2002, the liberal American Prospect magazine called California a "laboratory" for Democratic policies, noting that "California is the only one of the nation's 10 largest states that is uniformly under Democratic control."

They said this, mind you, as if it were a good thing. In California, the article proclaimed, "the next new deal is in tryouts." As they say in show biz: "Thanks, we'll call you. Next!"

In just a few years, Democrats had turned California into a state -- or as it's now known, a "job-free zone" -- with a $41 billion deficit, a credit rating that was slashed to junk-bond status and a middle class now located in Arizona.

Democrats governed California the way Democrats always govern. They bought the votes of government workers with taxpayer-funded jobs, salaries and benefits -- and then turned around and accused the productive class of "greed" for wanting not to have their taxes raised through the roof.

Having run out of things to tax, now the California legislature is considering a tax on taxes. Seriously. The only way out now for California is a tax on Botox and steroids. Sure, the governor will protest, but it is the best solution ...

California was, in fact, a laboratory of Democratic policies. The rabbit died, so now Obama is trying it on a national level.

That's what the tea parties are about.

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sweetpoison said:

HA kiss-ass

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may said:

Pests like you would be removed quickly, the gangs would be cut down to small groups, as these groups left the citys they would be thined by the time a group could get to where I will be they could be a hardened well working group and getting past others like me willl have changed them into a sly shy just trying to survive group but it would be easy to pick them off still and they would be. So med your fucked no matter if you dig a hole and pull the top over you.

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