By Matt Patterson- FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/08/matt-patterson-obama-health-care-town-hall-democrats-republicans-gop/)

“The summit and subsequent events have revealed two distinct philosophies that are like oil and water, and are likely to mix just about as well. Democrats obsess over the uninsured; the Republicans over cost. Democrats believe it’s the business of the government to dictate coverage;… “

This is crap. The Democrats are not trying to dictate coverage. This is a lie. What they don’t want is an insurance industry that will only cover those who don’t need insurance. Insurance needs to be for everybody regardless of the risk. An insurance industry purified insured pool would leave far too many millions of god fearing Americans helpless.

“…the Republicans that government’s role must be limited and encourage competition. What we’re talking about here is two vastly different views of the nature and rationale of federal authority in our lives, a difference between top down and bottom up, between centralized or diffused power, between government that knows best and liberty that comes first.”

What foolishness. This isn’t about the role of the federal government. It’s about a health care system that’s broken and the need to establish one that works for everyone. The government and the people are on in the same, and the people love their liberty because it allows them to choose to fix the broken healthcare system that’s eroding individual wealth, damaging the economy, and causing businesses to resist hiring.

“The best line in this whole debate so far was uttered by Eric Cantor, when at the summit he put his hand on the Senate bill and said to the president: “We can’t afford this. That is the ultimate problem here.”

More lies! The plan is budget neutral. Eric cantor knows this but still insists on misinforming voters since democrats always have to be portrayed as big spending budget busters even when it’s not true.

“The president claims his plan would cost about $950 billion. That’s $950 billion more than we have. Our anticipated budget deficit for 2010 will be a record $1.6 trillion; the CBO foresees $6 trillion in deficits over the next decade, an untenable situation which even Obama’s Secretary of State admits is a sobering national security challenge.”

Again, this reform legislation is budget neutral and this man knows this. If this fellow was so concerned about the deficits he would be demanding that the Bush tax cuts be allowed to expire and that we raise taxes to fund our armies in Iraq in Afghanistan. But no, he won’t do that. The deficit has to be filled by pounding the working class into the ground.

“In fact, these deficits are a mortal threat to our civilization. If these politicians were truly honest, they would have looked at each other and said, “Cantor’s right, there’s no way we can afford this right now!” adjourned the meeting, retired to their respective offices and chambers, and gotten to work getting Americans back to work, which is what they should have been doing in the first place.”

The Republican party of “NO” is no more likely to vote for a jobs bill than they are for healthcare reform. Asking Republicans to get back to work is asking them to think of new ways not to do anything thing.

It’s time to call out Republicans on their lying and campaign of misinformation. They are hypocrites and their ideology and policies have led us into this severe recession. We need to continue to remind them of this and to keep them out of the discussion on how to recover from their legacy.

And so when you listen to republicans address Obama’s explanation of the reform package the response goes around the language in the bill directly toward the ingrained hatred of government and its stereotyped image of a liberal controlled socialist takeover. Takeover of healthcare and everything else.

Here is some typical republican talk that exemplifies the talking past the bill on the table and to the biases and prejudices of the government haters that make up the republican base.

 “My response to the President’s weekly address outlined the dangers of putting government in charge of medical decisions that should be made by patients and doctors….there is no doubt that our health care system needs to be reformed, however, the President’s bill does nothing to offer a solution to our health care reform needs.”

Rep. Parker Griffith State Senator Alabama

He’s lying or he’s stupid. How does setting ground rules for insurance companies equate to putting the government in the same room as the doctor and the patient? It doesn’t. There are a myriad of improvements to the healthcare system in the reform legislation that are needed. Again, this man is lying or he’s stupid.

“Public opinion polls demonstrate that Americans do not want a government takeover of health care. A recent CNN reported that 73 percent of Americans want Congress to start over and drop health care entirely for now. In my own town halls and meetings I have conducted in north Alabama, I talked with doctors, nurses, business owners and consumers, all who expressed opposition to a government take-over of our health care system.”

Rep. Parker Griffith State Senator Alabama

Government is not trying to take over healthcare. Nobody wants that. So if you ask people if they want it of course they will say no. What people want is access to private medical care. Ask them if they want that and they will say yes. Why are you implying that healthcare reform is a government takeover? You’re either lying or your stupid.

Republicans know they are in danger of coming out looking like fools in the healthcare debate. Initially they branded it as another big government big spending redistribution of wealth program. They refused to participate in drafting reform at the outset. But if reform is successful their party faces oblivion. To hedge against the danger of extinction, they now say if the current bill is scrapped and the process started over they will participate the next time around.

They are lying. There is no starting over. If the legislation is scrapped, they will celebrate the crumbling of the Obama administration not reopen talks on reform.

But this is not a problem in the eyes of conservatives. To them the problem doesn’t really exist. The data is all baloney concocted by a socialist president looking to take over health care and make the rich pay for the poor and illegal immigrants.

But the reasoning of a conservative moron pig like Pat Boone carries weight since he and his feeble minded republican friends have representatives in congress. Despite what we all experience every day some of us are still in total denial. What follows from a Pat Boone article is beyond senile: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=127071

“For a while, he (Obama ) was saying there were 45 million Americans without healthcare. (False, of course, in that any hospital emergency room in America is required to care for any human being who comes in.) “

This statement is beyond incredible. By this logic every person in the country can cancel their insurance policy and just get in line at the emergency room. It’s free so why pay over $1,000 a month for a family plan and do what 45 million smarter Americans are doing. Go without coverage and get free care at the best hospitals in the world. 

“Now he says it’s 30 million without insurance, and he’s determined to see that they get it. And, though we’ve just heard an earlier recording in which he himself says ramming this proposal through Congress with a 51 “hands up or down” reconciliation vote will never do, he’s decided that if that’s the only way to force this on us, that’s what he will demand. “

What does Pat Boone have against 30 million Americans who need access to healthcare? In a sane world you wouldn’t be so callous toward the lack of health care of 30 million people. Unless of course you were a wealthy person and the gutter dwellers among us were essentially invisible non-existent entities. No doubt Obama made the whole thing up in some socialist plot to redistribute the wealth.

“But wait. Analysis has shown that his 30 million includes 12 to 14 million illegal aliens, not entitled to any government benefits at all. “

You got me on this one Pat. 14 million sub-human Mexicans who we are not required to treat. So what if they die their aliens not humans.

“It includes a few million more young people who don’t want insurance, and millions more who could have and afford insurance, but choose not to have it.”

These people are choosing not to pay for health insurance but they still want you to take them to the hospital when they get hit by a car. When these people are lying in the street with broken bones and bleeding lacerations, they don’t say to the paramedics “leave me here, I choose not to buy health insurance”.  No, they want to be rushed to the hospital for emergency care which they have no intention of paying for after they get it.

“So the actual numbers of people who actually need and can’t afford healthcare may be no more than 12 million or so. That’s a lot of Americans, and we’re right to be concerned and want to help. And what conservative leaders are shouting at us is that we can do that with a much simpler plan, for peanuts compared to the Obama plan. A simpler plan that won’t bankrupt our economy.”

Not quite as simple as this Pat. Even the insured can’t afford to pay for the out of pocket deductibles, co-payments and uncovered services. That’s not just 12 million people. It’s most of the people. That’s just not a small number of Americans that we should feel sorry for while doing nothing to help. It’s the whole freak’n country.

The rich can pooh pooh the pain of the proletariat. “Stop whining it’s not so bad.” Average people don’t count for very much these days. This is the land of opportunity and we had our chance and blew it. We’re losers and this country doesn’t tolerate losers. If you’re feeling the pain it’s because that’s what you deserve.

I am an American peasant. The pain I feel is the pain of greed. The greed of the filthy rich who managed to gain too much of a piece of the pie during the periods of republican rule. But I have a surprise for you Pat Boone. I like pain. It keeps me focused. It gives me a passion for revenge that will not be assuaged until the day comes when justice prevails and all people are treated as equals. Not in terms of material wealth, but in terms of the amount of suffering they are allowed to endure before they are deemed worthy enough for equal access to medical care.

Keep signing that happy tune Pat while the rest of us suffer. As they say ignorance is bliss. I suppose the more you have of it the more the more blinded you become to the truth.

These extremists believe the country is being taken away from them. They are right about that. The majority of Americans showed up at the polls and threw these narrow minded bigots out of office. However, this is a democracy and majority rules. But not for these people. When they lose they want to take the whole country down with them. They want to hurt people. They want blood.

Listen to the lunacy from the far right:

(David Kupelian http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=127027:)

“Good Americans from sea to shining sea are grappling right now with how to mentally process what they’re witnessing in Washington, D.C. The spectacle of a far leftist president literally forcing socialized medicine down the throat of an unwilling center-right America is reminiscent, perhaps more than any other contemporary metaphor, of date rape.”

They label themselves as the “Good Americans”. What does that make the rest of us? We don’t want to be victims of an insurance industry that forces ordinary people to pay extraordinary premiums and then sets themselves up as the judge over just how much medical care we’re going to have access to. That makes us the bad Americans.

“As president, Barack Obama courted us with sweet talk, but America grew increasingly uncomfortable with his advances and firmly said, “Stop” – in fact, screamed bloody murder for months. Yet Obama remains obsessed with forcing himself on America.”

The Obama hatred is palpable. Since it transcends reason we can only deduce that it comes from an aversion to his skin complexion. Obama didn’t force himself on anyone. He was elected by a sizeable majority of Americans.

 “America is not, after all, a place like Cuba or Zimbabwe…We’re accustomed to the rule of law, to civility, to due process, even in the most difficult and contentious of times. After all, when Hillarycare was soundly rejected by Americans during Bill Clinton’s first term, he wisely backed off and stopped trying to force socialized medicine on us…”

Of course republicans dispensed with law, civility and due process with the swearing in of Obama. Proponents of health care reform want a vote and the extremist conservative republicans are doing everything they can to make sure it never happens. So much for due process and the rule of law. Extreme conservatism is being forced down our throats even though it the minority ideology.

 “How can an apparently decent man like Barack Obama… – justify lying and deceiving all the time, pretending to care about Republican input, about transparency, about controlling costs, and so on? Further, how can he justify using such dishonest means to force his will on an unwilling American public?”

It does take a lot of pretending to appear to care about republicans these days. Just the few sentences shown above tell you why.

 “Those on the far left regions where Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid dwell regard free-market capitalism as irredeemably evil, exploitive and unjust – and therefore in need of destruction to make way for the creation of something more noble and just.”

The free market is evil, exploitive and unjust. It is amoral in the same way a lion is when it kills and eats the young of a wilder beast. The lion is good at what it does just like the free market is good at what it does. We strive to be noble and just while championing the wonders of the free market. We still can’t condone injustice because it’s profitable.

 “Thus, the left thinks of their constant lying and deceiving the way you and I might regard lying and deceiving were we German undercover operatives in the Nazi army plotting to kill Hitler,…”

Associating Obama with the agreed upon worst most evil mass murderer in history is an outright act of violence by this extremist lunatic. If you rationalize that Obama is spiritually on the same level as Hitler, then it follows that he’s’ fair game for assassination.

“That’s how Obama and company think of their daily depredations that endanger the very existence of America as a land of liberty and light among the nations. …we are talking about people in the grip of dark forces and delusion, hell-bent on leading the rest of us downward, which they see as upward.”

 I don’t think the rest of the world sees us as the light among nations anymore. Not after eight years of the Bush administration. There is no need to expound on that nightmare. It was that brand of conservatism that was delusional and led us all downward. We don’t want that anymore which is why Obama was elected by a solid majority.

“…What we need is to vote every single one of Obama’s congressional collaborators out of office this November, and to do it so decisively that even “the anointed one’s” gigantic fortress-life shell of denial is shattered into a million pieces – as the bells of freedom ring once again throughout America.”

Buddy, you don’t deserve to be free you deserve to be in jail. The crimes committed against this country during the Bush administration have up to now gone unpunished. You are the ultimate collaborator and you and your kind were decisively cast into the gutter by the voters in the last election.

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Mission.aspx

There are three core values they that underlie their movement:

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor….

Apparently they don’t want to pay taxes. Me either, but it costs money to be an industrial superpower and a democracy with courts, judges, a military, police, roadways etc. The Tea Party people have responsibilities too; like paying their fair share to keep America strong.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land.

This doesn’t need to be part of their core values. They are stuck with it whether they like it or not.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government’s interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.

What the Tea Party doesn’t understand is that government promotes business as well as regulates it. Washington has given business grants, subsidies and tax breaks in an effort to assist in its climb toward prosperity. It has even used the military to protect business interests overseas. The government has been guilty of looking the other way when business has destroyed public lands and waterways.

This republic could not stand without a regulated free market. If you think corruption is rampant in Washington now imagine what it would be if business was unregulated.  Business would have overwhelmed government a long time ago, if it hasn’t already, and your liberty been sold to the highest bidding lobbyist.

So I’m back to ground zero with the Tea Party. Their core values are based on illusions. There is nothing new or special about them. In fact they are pretty much what everybody in the country stands for. These core values go without saying, they don’t need to be written down.

So what’s left? Incoherent ranting and core values that state the obvious are not the basis for a grass roots movement.  And this is why people accuse them of being a band of racists. The real reasons for their existence and anger have to remain unspoken.

Tea Party! Stop complaining and write up an agenda with specific programs you want your candidates to impose. Once you do that we can start to take you seriously.

“There is a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility these days, but so far no one has tackled the truly tough reality that the federal government was never designed to be in the business of helping people eat, work or get along when times are tough.”

My problem with conservatives is hypocrisy. I could respond to the above that the government was never designed to have a space program or a highway system. People democratically decide what they want to do with their tax money.

“Perhaps is the feds weren’t taking a sizeable chunk of our income we would have more money to help our family and neighbors when they are suddenly out of work. Perhaps we would have more money to give to churches and charities that help our fellow citizens in need.”

Again it’s the hypocrisy. What difference does it make if it’s the government or some charitable organization that’s giving the handout? In the end it’s the same thing. Helping the unemployed get through hard times. And since when has the nation’s workforce become charity cases. Are they not the backbone of America? This is my problem with republicans. It’s the contempt they harbor for working class Americans.

“Do I believe I am responsible for helping my fellow citizen in tough times? Yes. I just don’t believe the federal government is responsible for it.”

Problem is that if the government doesn’t do it we can’t depend on this fellow to chip in and help either. If he doesn’t want the government to do it we can be pretty damn certain he doesn’t believe any of his money should be redistributed to the unemployed.

“Unfortunately very few politicians from any party would get elected on a platform of slashing entitlements and few Americans would vote for them since so many of us have grown up believing the government is responsible for our financial well being. “

Whenever you read a republican article on the governments need to be fiscally responsible you will always see this comment thrown in at the end. For republicans it’s not so much about fiscal responsibility as it is about those unemployed bums freeloading off taxes paid by those who are lucky enough to still have a job. Again, if they don’t want the government to get involved with a safety net for those laid off during this great recession you can be as sure as hell they won’t be contributing to any charities to provide that support. Republicans don’t believe you deserve the support at all. Somehow deep in their heart they believe your misfortune is all your fault.

 “The sooner we start making tough choices and electing those who will make tough choices the sooner we will save our children from crushing debt and ballooning centralized government.”

Now lastly here comes the punch line. We need to elect a Republican president with spine enough to make the tough choice to cut the unemployed loose to face their destiny on their own. Republicans won’t stand side by side with their fellow citizens in distress, and they won’t help shoulder their burden during this time of national crisis.

And make no mistake it’s not their children they are worried about. Such heartless conservatives are more likely to eat their own children if they were forced to go without.  Republicans are at the point where they want to throw the dead weight overboard and put the problem behind them.

I, personally, am not so quick to abandon my fellow Americans when times get tough. Although I have to admit that I would think twice before throwing a life preserver to this fellow if he accidently fell overboard. It’s too early in the game to decide who lives and who dies.  It will come to that eventually, but the republicans seem to be ghoulishly eager to get on with it.

At first you stood alone but your gallantry attracted other republican senators who formed ranks alongside you. This was a cause worth defending in spite of the hoards that amassed to take you down. Fiscal responsibility is a cause that is hard to argue against. In the end you were right and everyone else was wrong.

If you and those who stood beside you weren’t such freak’n frauds you may even have gained the admiration of most of the people who watched you take on the system. But as I suspected, once you get by the self righteous talk of fiscal responsibility the bottom line is you don’t believe there should be an extension of benefits.

Many conservatives and Tea Party activists agree with you. They applaud what you did not on the basis of fiscal responsibility, but on the desire to cutoff government handouts. Republicans are afraid that these payments for unemployment, social security and Medicare will become embedded entitlements that will transform America into a socialist state. Americans will eventually expect these entitlements as part of what they deserve for being an American.

Republicans are afraid that Americans will get use to living off the hard earned wages of those who actually work. A system where wealth is redistributed from workers to those who don’t. Or to put it another way, you don’t want your tax dollars to go to the currently unemployed because you believe they prefer to get paid for not working than to put the effort into finding another job.

This thinking is hyper-hypocritical. At some point republicans have to face the new reality. The free market cannot employ all those who depend on a job to survive. There is no insidious plot by the jobless to suck away dollars from working people to avoid working. The jobs just aren’t there right now. We are in an emergency crisis situation. It is a humanitarian disaster not unlike those caused by an earthquake or a hurricane. The death and property damage isn’t there, but the human misery is.

And so the question becomes at what point do Americans turn against there fellow citizens. For Jim Bunning and some of his fellow republican senators the time is now. The time has come to stop taxpayer money from supporting those who have been displaced by this great recession. The unemployed are being cut loose and set adrift. Sorry, but not everybody lives when disaster strikes. The fit need to cut the life line to the drowning or else be dragged under with them.

It’s a lot like that movie Titanic. When the ship is sinking the paying customers get a seat on the life boats since there is not enough room for everybody. The passengers who reside on the lower decks are left to drown along with the rats. And that may be a good thing since they were nothing but scum to begin with.

As for me I’ll go down with the ship rather than get on a life boat with Jim Bunning. I’d rather have my soul released along with the unfortunate who are left behind to drown than to be counted among the surviving cannibals who believe that god made them better than the rest of us.

He’s there to do the people’s business not play Santa Claus. Senator Kyl hates Santa Claus and everything he stands for. There is no free lunch in a free market society. Self reliance and individualism is what we stand for not loafing around eating Cheetos on Uncle Sam’s handouts.

Alas, the people’s business these days is the extension of unemployment benefits. Unemployment is stuck around 10% and that equates to too many people to sweep under the rug. So Senator Kyl will have to vote yea and extend these benefits. But he won’t do so without scolding those who need a few bucks to keep themselves alive until the hiring begins again.

Sen. Jon Kyl believes unemployment benefits discourage people from working “because people are being paid even though they’re not working.”

I don’t agree with the senator that an unemployment check is the same as getting paid. Most of that unemployment check goes to pay COBRA premiums. But still Kyl exposes his contempt for the jobless by categorizing them as freeloaders rather than the victims of a Wall Street concocted economic crash that affected the whole world. Why the distain for common folk?

“Unemployment insurance “doesn’t create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work,”

Actually, Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, will tell you that unemployment payments are one of the most effective and immediate forms of fiscal stimulus and they do create or at least sustain jobs.

“I’m sure most of them would like work and probably have tried to seek it, but you can’t argue that it’s a job enhancer. If anything, as I said, it’s a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here,”

What really pissed me off about what Kyl said is when he referred to the unemployed as “THEM”. This is that condescending contempt for those annoying working class bums who can’t take care of themselves. He dehumanizes real people in distress by using the pronoun THEM. Sort of the way you would refer to the occupants of a leper colony.

I myself am a currently unemployed working peasant. One of the “Them” Senator Kyl talks about. I have the same contemptuous feeling about you Senator Kyl because I believe you had a lot to do with the economic crash we are currently living through.

Why are you a Senator at all Mr. Kyl? I think you’re there to make sure that the free market is free from the pesky recurring distractions of the needs of employees. After all employees are a pain in the ass and their bleating about pay raises and basic benefits is a distraction from the work of maximizing profits.  

Well Senator Kyl, I don’t like you either. If my unemployment check is the same as getting paid for doing nothing then what are we to say about your paycheck? Seems like you got me beat in the pay for nothing game. Beat by a mile.

It Is Time For a New Tax Revolthttp://biggovernment.com/jwurzelbacher/2010/03/01/it-is-time-for-a-new-tax-revolt

But I believe Joe isn’t paying that much in federal taxes to begin with. What Joe is doing is exploiting the Tea Party movement’s anti-government sentiment based on the false notion that average people are excessively over taxed, to make himself a bundle of quick cash.

It’s my belief that the average Tea Partier pays about a dime out of every dollar earned in federal income tax. This is hardly an excessive amount. Certainly not enough to warrant a revolt. Moreover, when you weigh what you get in return for that dime it’s not that bad of a deal.

Here is why Joe thinks we need a revolt:

“We will never control our government until we control the federal tax system. It is corrupted and unfair and feeds unchecked government growth…. The income tax hides the cost of the government from plain sight and provides endless amounts of our money for the advancement of politician’s personal ambitions. It is very good for those in Washington and very destructive for the rest of us.”

Joe is attacking the government even though I believe he pays a modest amount to support it. The cost of the government isn’t hidden; you can go online and see how every dollar is spent. Try going to the Congressional Budget Office Website where the cost of government is in plain sight.
 
http://www.cbo.gov/

I don’t think that a congressman can provide themselves with endless amounts of money unless the Treasury provided them with a check book and made them signatories on the treasury’s checking account.

“When it comes to more and more spending and more and more taxes, it is a one-way conversation. I’m ready to talk back and I don’t think I’m alone. That’s why I’m calling on every patriot to join me in a tax revolt march on Washington, D.C.”

Joe thinks it’s a one way conversation, but he voted for people to represent him in congress so he did have a part in the conversation. How can Joe be a patriot when the real heroes among us are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Joe isn’t being asked to fight, but he is being asked to pay for the guns and bullets our soldiers need in order to wage the war on terrorism. Apparently Joe doesn’t want to pay his fair share to defend his country. Some patriot you are Joe.

 “I’m leading a Tea Party Patriot team in a growing on-line tax revolt which arrives in Washington, D.C. on April 15th to merge with the huge physical rallies that are already planned for that day. It’s a new technology that allows people to choose a graphic “avatar” to digitally march on-line to Washington with hundreds of thousands of other Americans. Even the homebound, recovering veterans and the elderly can add their voice to this new American chorus.”

These lines from Joe are so stupid it’s almost funny. He’s inviting recovering veterans and the elderly to his tax revolt. These are the very people who depend on tax money the most. The very people Joe ‘The Plumber’ doesn’t want to receive support via federal tax dollars.

Joe has it all wrong. The real problem is collusion between politicians and big business. If Joe could focus his attacks on this scandal he’d be making sense. What he’s doing now is running cover for this unholy alliance by misdirecting attention away from it. As long as the people are divided and at each other’s throats business as usual can continue unabated in Washington.

Show us your tax return Joe. I don’t believe your being over taxed. You can’t lead a revolt until you are totally transparent about your own taxes.

I think the Tea Party Patriots are full of crap. The average member of the Tea party movement has an effective tax rate of about 10%. One dime out of every dollar to fund the greatest industrial power in the world.One dime out of every dollar to fund the greatest democrcy the world has ever seen.  Is that too much to ask?

The chart below was taken from the Congressional Budget Office and shows that unless your freak’n rich, and if you’re an average american your not, your effective tax rate is around 17%. However, that includes social security which is not a tax since you get it all back when you retire. That puts you at around 10%.

So if 10 cents out of every dollar is too much, that would mean you want to pay something less, or a number that is something close to nothing. The people in the highest quintile of the chart have reason to be angry. But you average citizen are not in that category. You’re not among the super rich.

Which leads me to ask why you are so angry over the amount of taxes rich people pay? Did your rich boss give you a 20% rise last year? Is that why you’re defending him? I doubt you got any raise at all and you might even have gotten a pay cut especially if the increase in your health insurance benefit was larger than your pay increase.

As the saying goes freedom is not cheap. The Tea Partiers are certainly cheap but not freedom. Many of our ancestors fought in wars and many were wounded or lost their lives to defend this great democracy. The Tea Partiers are not being asked for that kind of sacrifice, just one dime out of every dollar. They complain over paying that meager amount.

If taxes are not your problem and big spending is not your problem (since you’re not paying for it anyway) then what is the problem? You don’t really know do you? Neither do I since your rhetoric is incoherent.

It’s not numbers and dollars that bother you it’s much deeper than that. It may be cultural, it may be religious or it may be racial. Your problem is not Obama or socialism. Your problem is that you’re being left behind if not outright robbed by the free market. That’s a condition that can be remedied, but not by siding with the rich. Your problem is sudden social change manifested by gay marriage, acceptance of pro-choice, and ascendancy of minorities into traditionally all white positions of authority.

A lot of what you stand for is unspoken and for good reason. It can’t be spoken aloud without revealing your bigotry, intolerance and the outright failure of your ideology as implemented during the Bush administration. Yes, we all want a revolution, but we just don’t want to be a part of yours.