5 Responses to Tea Party Movement Pictures

  1. Rev. Hart says:

    The TEA movement has three main problems:

    1. If they are protesting the size of government, then why were they silent during the Bush administration, when the size of the federal government nearly doubled?

    2. I remember this very same demographic, when they responded to the liberals' protests against Bush. They said things like "love it or leave it!" Does that same principle apply now, to them? Should they just go find another country with a smaller government?

    3. One of their main arguments is that the current stimuli are "generational theft." But they forget that a) Wall St. was committing "class theft" freely for years, which led to this disaster, b) it was George Bush and John McCain who first proposed massive amounts of money in bailouts to the Free Market when it collapsed under its own freedom, and c) the alternative to government stimulus is Free Market stimulus, which is incapable of functioning right now because its so deeply flawed.

    Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of protests. I love living in a place where we have the right to protest, and I think it's a necessary form of communal voice in a free society. But when the ideas being proposed don't make sense, it seems like a big waste of energy and time.

  2. dan says:

    To Rev Hart: I could not have said it better myself. Obama has been in office for just three months trying to reverse the Great Recession and these knuckleheads are doing their part by calling for a revolution. And Fox "Fair and Balanced" News and did a nice job of encouraging them.

  3. Rev. Hart says:

    Dan, I don't watch FOXNews, but I'm not surprised to hear you say that the network is cheering these folks. I remember when the Latinos were marching by the hundreds of thousands a few years ago, for immigrants' rights, and on FOXNews they were ridiculed for doing so.

  4. warren says:

    I grew up in a neighbourhood where some of my neighbours were Holocaust survivors. There were people living there with a tattoo on their arm from their time at Auschwitz. This second sign is incredibly ignorant.

  5. PeteJ says:

    I mentioned this in a comment in our local newspaper, but two things bother me about this -the protests are abstract enough (no more government spending…really??) that I really have to wonder if some are out there because they are uncomfortable with someone in the whitehouse that doesn't look like them. Or, if you believe who started this 'movement' I would feel really silly getting played by a group of people. To quote Val Kilmer in 'The Saint' – "He is not a race car, he is controlled by no one"

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