I think we have to admit that McCain does bare some resemblance to Smeagol.
I think the problem with the Tea Partiers is that they see it as being their way or nothing. I understand their perspective and conviction but I think the issue is that they want to do it ALL at once. No compromise, every vote they make must include everything they think has to be done for the next 20 years of government. I think the problem is if we do it their way the whole economy is going to come crashing down. People compl
When our economy is plagued by the cancer of debt then compromise is not the best idea. Lets wait a few more years for the tumor to grow, or just chop tiny parts off it. Either you deal with it or let it consume you. The Tea Party movement is just the rationalization of that fact, after years of denial the populace is finally accepting the situation and urgently want it dealt with.
Hearing McCain complain about peoples actions inadvertently re-electing Obama is just hilarious. After his amazing run fro
We have to deal with it fast, but if you deal with it the TEA party way, what we'll end up is exactly what the US founding fathers rebelled against: A thin layer of rich aristocracy with poor peasants underneath them to shove around as they deem fit. This is essentially what you end up with if your solution is to reduce tax to next to nothing and thus take away the government's ability to actually govern. If you want that, ok. But unless you are one of the thin layer, I definitely doubt that you really want
The founding fathers had no problem with rich aristocracy: they WERE rich aristocracy. What they had a problem with was the unfettered power of unelected government and its intrusion into the everyday business of the common man.
And what, exactly, do you think is going to happen when a government with zero income tries to enforce the laws its passed in an effort to reign in the rich aristocracy that's trying to push around the middle and lower classes? How, with no money, do you think they're going to pay for the enforcement of the laws that are established to prevent the unelected corporations from exercising their unfettered power over the everyday business of the common man?
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When our economy is plagued by the cancer of debt then compromise is not the best idea. Lets wait a few more years for the tumor to grow, or just chop tiny parts off it. Either you deal with it or let it consume you. The Tea Party movement is just the rationalization of that fact, after years of denial the populace is finally accepting the situation and urgently want it dealt with.
Hearing McCain complain about peoples actions inadvertently re-electing Obama is just hilarious. After his amazing run fro
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We have to deal with it fast, but if you deal with it the TEA party way, what we'll end up is exactly what the US founding fathers rebelled against: A thin layer of rich aristocracy with poor peasants underneath them to shove around as they deem fit. This is essentially what you end up with if your solution is to reduce tax to next to nothing and thus take away the government's ability to actually govern. If you want that, ok. But unless you are one of the thin layer, I definitely doubt that you really want
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The founding fathers had no problem with rich aristocracy: they WERE rich aristocracy. What they had a problem with was the unfettered power of unelected government and its intrusion into the everyday business of the common man.
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And what, exactly, do you think is going to happen when a government with zero income tries to enforce the laws its passed in an effort to reign in the rich aristocracy that's trying to push around the middle and lower classes? How, with no money, do you think they're going to pay for the enforcement of the laws that are established to prevent the unelected corporations from exercising their unfettered power over the everyday business of the common man?
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Those are questions we could have asked ourselves before we spent all the money.