I believe most people today are far less concerned about the distance future than they are the immediate future. They're worried about how they're going to pay the rent or mortgage payment next month, their soon's college tuition next fall, and layoffs. The Tea Party agenda does not address that. Instead it's a plan to radically change the function of government as we know it, revamping the tax codes, eliminating most federal regulation, and shifting power from the federal government to the states. IMHO, most people are not looking to eliminate the federal government, they just want see work in their best interest.Who are these Tea Partiers, let's say, among seniors, who are advocating for having their own Social Security and Medicare benefits cut?
Who are the Tea party veterans who are advocating for cutting their own VA benefits?
I am a "Senior" Tea Partier who. like all the other 'senior' Tea Partiers are not wanting our Social Security or Medicare cut. We've paid in to those programs all our lives, have been forced to be made dependent on them, and it isn't right that they now be taken away when we have no time left to regroup and reorganize.
We all, however, do want Congress to now start reforming the program so that you younguns, currently with heads full of mush, won't be saddled with crushing debt and reduced benefits when YOU are seniors. We didn't get into the current mess all at once but inch by inch over the years. We have to reverse it the same way, inch by inch and replace it with a system that won't crush the economy.
Of course the Statists/Leftists are pro-big-central-government and don't want that messed with. They are more interested in fine tuning a strong central government to focus more on their personal issues and are not, as you say, interested in the big picture.
Tea Partiers have woken up however and know that a big strong central government is NEVER going to provide what they want which is personal liberty with rights secured and self governance. Tea Partiers don't want a benevolent dictatorship or monarchy or any other form of government that assigns the rights people are allowed to have and responsibilities that the people are required to have. The original Tea Party rebelled against that and our Founders gave us a constitution intended to prevent that. Modern Tea Partiers want us to get back to the original consitutional intend re government.
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