This article is funny, likely fictional but brings up some very good points on the Tea Party. The article illustrates either the small mindedness of the Tea Party followers are more sinister, the callousness of a movement designed to mislead to further move the country onto a path that continuously strips the middle class as they fight over issues that really are nothing but bait and switch fallacies.
Unfortunately with a corporate owned media, the Tea Party has become a legitimate movement however devoid of reason. The only way to counteract this is with a sea of truth with factual information that while they will deny, would ultimately plant a seed in their minds so that as the cratering begin they will have a frame of reference from which to recover from.
May the Supreme Being help our country.
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Explaining The Tea Party To My Son
By jeff61b
My son asked me a question the other day: “Hey dad, what’s the Tea Party? I mean what do they want, what do they believe in?”
I said, “That’s easy. The Tea Party believes in lower taxes and balancing the budget. They formed right after Obama was elected. They started holding Tea Party rallies protesting tax increases immediately after his inauguration.”
“So what tax increases were they protesting?”
“Well, the first thing Obama did as president was create a stimulus package to bring the country out of the recession. That included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for families and small businesses. This lowered taxes for 95% of Americans.”
“Lowered taxes? Don’t you mean he raised taxes?”
“No, the tax cuts from the stimulus package, cut income taxes for most Americans lower than they had been in over 60 years.”
“But if the Tea Party was protesting tax increases, who’s taxes were going up?”
“Well, as it turns out, nobody’s. After the Obama tax cuts, most protesters were paying less in Federal income taxes than they had ever paid in their lives. But polls showed that 98% of Tea Partiers wrongly believed their taxes had gone up.“
“Then what were they protesting?”
“Well for one thing, our country has about 12 trillion dollars in debt and most people don’t feel we can keep going deeper into debt.”
“Wow, Obama ran up TWELVE TRILLIONS DOLLARS in debt?”
“Yes. Well, maybe not ALL of it. Actually just a small part of it. The first $5 trillion took about 225 years to accumulate. The next $5 trillion in debt was from the 8 years George W. Bush was in office. Under Obama the annual deficit remained over a trillion dollars just like the last year of Bush’s presidency.“