but y'all seem to be fugittin' the difernce 'tween conservatives and liberals.
Conservatives (such as would be in the Tea Party Movement) have no problem with the idea of working for income and paying for what they use. They are simply asking for a reduction in the size of government, a subsequent reduction in the amount of tax revenues spent on government and government programs.
All reasonable, and well stated . . . but government has been crafted by Big Business into a subsidy and bailout machine. The Tea Party was invented to shift the focus from corporate welfare to social welfare. They were invented as a meltdown management mechanism, to stem the predictable tide of "Teddy Roosevelt populism" against the Great Malefactors who sliced up ponzi derivatives and sold them all over the globe . . . aka . . . the crime of the century. (The Tea Party is corporate America's attempt to control populist discourse, and direct rage away from them and toward their lowly servants in government)
The Tea Party has been conditioned to scream "socialism" any time a movement forms to address the influence of Big Money in Big Government. Wall Street owns both parties, yet they are completely insulated from democratic protest and review. They sank the economy through criminal risk mismanagement. They took risks they would never have been able to take had they not owned Government. The Tea Party should be working to rescue government and the market from the too-big-to fail risk-monsters who own government. (It's amazing and tragic that the Tea Party doesn't understand who funds elections, staffs government, and owns our political machinery)
Reforms should be placed on Wall Street's speculative casino. We should return to some of the postwar regulations that gave us financial stability for decades (until Reagan and the S&L's). Bush and Obama and all the Fed chiefs work for Government Sachs. The Tea Party was invented to divert attention away from the real owners of government. They were invented to go after anybody inside government who challenges their centralized power.
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