In 2006, our local fire department bought a brand new ambulance to replace one that was eight years old and no longer capable of assuring us a safe, reliable vehicle to make the hour long journey to the closest hospital and back. Obviously, we didn’t have the $85,000 we needed to make the purchase. So, we borrowed it at a ridiculously low interest rate from the federal government. Since that day, we’ve completed approximately 750 emergency calls without even once suffering a mechanical breakdown.
However, as those in the Tea Party Traitor movement know, this loan represents an earmark legislation that they claim is ruining this country. There are 750 people in my home town that would disagree strongly.
All across the country there are middle aged and elderly citizens calling for smaller government, more freedoms, less taxes and balanced budgets. My question to all of them is “what shall we cut first?”
Nearly half of the federal budget is involved in writing checks to old people, namely Tea Party types. Shall we cut Social Security or Medicare? Of course, there is also Defense, roughly a third of the budget. We already outspend China by a margin of 6 to 1. Shall we cut Defense?
Earmarks, those legislative orphans that provide assistance to such tax sucking organizations as hospitals, fire departments, social welfare initiatives, highways, national parks and a plethora of other desirable ends, and which consumes a whopping 2% of the federal budget. Shall we cut these?
In truth, my concept is that the so called Tea Party movement is self indulgent, perfectly capable of cutting off its own nose just to spite its face. There is nothing patriotic about these apoplectic dinosaurs. They have but one interest and that one lives very close to home. It’s called ME!
Crazy is a term meant for people playing with less than a full intellectual deck. They want anarchy, endless wars, local war lords or social promiscuity. The Tea Partiers aren’t crazy. They want everything for themselves and you can fuck the rest. You lost your job with its health insurance and then you had a coronary? Tough luck, buddy. Not my problem. But I gotta go, I have to be somewhere in Nevada to get that liberal senator, that socialist, Harry Reid, bounced from office.
Start arranging your affairs, folks. If these maniacal, self indulgent (and, yes!), racist meatballs achieve power, look for more confederate flags in South Carolina, minorities unable to use public restrooms and for hospitals to beg for funding. Look for President Paul to eradicate a century’s worth of regulation and social progress. Look for the end to civilization.
Yeah! “Listen to me!” I did, and I do not like what I hear. These are the words of traitors who live amongst us.
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June 1, 2010 at 2:52 pm
The ‘Me first’ mentality. However, I think most of these Tea Party advocates fight against their best interests because they want to yell. They don’t want to debate, discuss, or resolve issues they just want to yell. They use whatever they can to throw out there to divert true topics and promote propaganda all in efforts to show just how those evil liberals should be put in their place. Because no idea is good unless it comes from a Republican.
June 2, 2010 at 12:17 am
I have to say that your story quickly becomes the fodder for anti-liberal sentiment. First, you try to scare readers into thinking that the TEA Party wants to take away emergency services, Medicare and so forth. Then you resort to name calling and slander and even further with race based scare tactics.
If you pay real attention to the TEA Party message you’d know they want the country run as it was mandated by the Constitution. Are all of their ideas ideal for everyone? Most definitely not. If anything, they are calling for an audit of the government. They are calling for the end to travel on taxpayers’ bill and wasteful spending and other such nonsense. And some services make people too dependent on the government. Such programs are bloated and top-heavy and waste precious dollars that could go to a new ambulance without the need for a loan which in turn creates more indebtedness to the government. And you’re damned right they are fighting for themselves. I go to work everyday to feed my family, not yours. And I’m sure you do the same.
If you wish to write about political scandal or anything for that matter, you have to get the whole story, and not write half-truths and fairytales. If you want to write fiction, then that is fine, too. But consolidating bumper sticker slogans, John Stewart monologues, name calling and sterotypical liberal rhetoric into a blog doesn’t make you some kind of know-it-all. As a matter of fact, it makes you look as ignorant as anyone with a misspelled sign at a TEA Party rally.
June 2, 2010 at 1:31 am
@Rich – I am pretty sure the authors intentions weren’t to highlight the idea that the Tea Party premise is to take away emergency services… Simply to identify that their intense concern about earmarks is an overcompensation for much ado about nothing.
Race based scare tactics? Are you even reading the same article? Maybe you are getting this one confused with Sarah Palins last memo.
Ideas in the Constitution are ideal for the greater good. Which is, to me, the point of this article (not to mention the entire site). Now I’m not speaking of the fake constitution that somehow is construed that we were founded on Christian principles, I’m referring to the actual document that would certainly separate itself from that notion.
Your glorified view of what the Tea Party stands for is abstract and baseless. While you go to work and feed your family, YOUR family also benefits from State and Government run programs. Life is not fair, jobs are not fair, and you have no entitlement over anyone else. Get over yourself.
I think the only half-truth is your comment and you should be ashamed of your world view. While I doubt I’ll see any posts of yours on Sarah Palins outrageous partisan posts (because that would only be fair based on your logic), I will say you are great at diverting the attention to the greater good by failing to see the bigger picture.
June 2, 2010 at 1:47 am
Hey, Rich, I doubt that my blog scared anybody, especially you. Self indulgence is a particularly obtuse personality trait. Simply saying that someone foments “half truths and fairytales” doesn’t factualize it. Calling me a name caller while deliberately classifying me as ignorant and a “stereotypical liberal” is simply more provocative diatribe. I only wish the above was fiction, but the libertarian agenda, contrary to its expressed aims, would usher in an era of hatred, bigotry, race baiting and a revisiting of an age before the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. Think this is fiction? Read Rand Paul’s response to Rachael Maddow.
Have a nice day.
June 2, 2010 at 3:39 pm
The Tea Party Scandal in my area is a perfect example of this facade. The group here is comprised of big business players that went from being rich to being wealthy during the W. years. Now that the government wants to stop their ability to collect windfall profits at the expense of the common good, they have a problem with the government. Patriots my ass.