Tea Party? How about a keg party? Part II

You can-Protest!!!!

Onto part II: Meeecah strikes back!

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." -Thomas Jefferson

Now that I have discussed the two puppets that are the faces of the Tea Party, now we can discuss the makeup of the organization and the problems in it. According to a CBS poll, 18 percent of Americans identify themselves as Tea Party supporters. Tea Party supporters tend to be "white, male, married and older than 45." In general, they are "wealthier and more well-educated" than the general public, and hold conservative views on a range of issues. Although most are registered Republican, they tend to be more conservative than Republicans at large. Political correspondent Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press, the Tea Party movement "an ideological mix of libertarianism and conservatism with the common denominator being lower spending and smaller government." Each time I see Teas Party protesters, all I see is a sea of white people. Its like watching CNN coverage of hurricane Katrina and everyone they showed were African-American-only on opposite day. The majority of the party are neo-conservative over-religious college-educated WASPs that make more money than 75% of the population. I am not saying they are racist, but these people of the Tea party are not a party that appeals to the masses, only a small portion of our population. They are SOOOO many more Americans in worse financial trouble an yet these protesters live in nice 3 bedroom house in the suburbs of a major city, while other starve to death on the streets of that same city. Inclusive of their basic tenets should include what the Declaration of Independence says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." They drop any hyper- religious views and then they could appeal to the masses and maybe right many of the wrongs of this country. The Tea Party view on free market economy bugs me a bit. I am all for free trade within an individual US state for instance but World Free Market Economies is the Capitalism system that we live under now that is just phrased as "free markets". The "free market" thought has lead to the creation of NAFTA and the WTO and look where that got us: outsourcing, unemployment, trade deficits, devaluing of the Dollar and the worst depression sine The Great Depression of the 1930's. The necessary components for the functioning of an idealized free market include the complete absence of artificial price pressures from taxes, subsidies, tariffs, or government regulation (other than protection from coercion and theft, and no government-granted monopolies (usually classified as coercive monopoly by free market advocates) like the United States Post Office, Amtrak, arguably patents, etc. This cannot be achieved in the World we live in right now. To most Tea Party members, there is simply no free market yet, given the degree of state intervention in even the most 'capitalist' of countries. From their perspective, those who say they favor a "free market" are speaking in a relative, rather than an absolute, sense—meaning (in Tea Party terms) they wish that coercion be kept to the minimum that is necessary to maximize economic freedom (such necessary coercion would be taxation, for example) and to maximize market efficiency by lowering trade barriers, making the tax system neutral in its influence on important decisions such as how to raise capital, e.g., eliminating the double tax on dividends so that equity financing is not at a disadvantage in relation to debt financing. If they could somehow come up with a radical economic policy that could come anywhere to what a Free Market Economy truly is, they could revolutionize Economics all around the World. Again though, the Tea Party needs to expand it ranks to minorities and establish itself as a legitimate 3rd party and tweak some of their beliefs-otherwise they will be up the creek without the paddle.

Mainstream media is crapping ALL over the Tea Party. Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post went onto Face the Nation last Sunday and called the Tea Party potentially violent and of being associated with “sort of bitter attitude” and being dominated by “sort of fringy elements” plus that Internet/Alternative journalism is "sort of like terrorism" Check out the lowlights from the interview:

Here's a link to her Op-Ed in the Sunday's Washington Post where she compares Tim Mcveigh to the Tea Party protesters (keep in mind this woman won a Pulitzer Prize-did she win it a raffle?)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041603842.html

Another hater of the Tea Party is old slick Willie himself, Bill Clinton. Check out his Op-Ed in the NY Times last Sunday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/opinion/19clinton.html

Clinton has based his accusation the Tea Party will engage in violence on irate and threatening phone calls and emails sent to Congress and the White House before and after the unconstitutional Obamacare bill was passed. He has exploited the discredited accusation that a Tea Party protester spat on a member of Congress. There is absolutely no evidence to support the accusation that somebody connected to the Tea Party threw a rock through the window of a Democrat’s office. Granted he is from Arkansas, but I'd did not think he was THAT dim. Dissent and protest are part of our individual freedoms-the media can call them fring groups, 3rd parties or a "movement". Either way, we need non-violent dissent in this country in order to get things back on track-like Ghandi, who had all the Indians burn their British identification cards, we should have mass burnings of Social Security cards so we do not have to be numbers in the Corporation of America-we can be human again and set things straight. We can have a revolution (not like that 60's stuff) due that fact that people are so angry and distrustful of our government that change maybe around the corner. Otherwise, life be like the movie "Brazil" where it is said : "Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating." Is it possible to have a negative credit rating?