Tea Parties Scaring Axelrod?
Language warning if you link to the article to see for yourself, but suffice it to say that David Axelrod, the man known as Obama's puppeteer speechwriter, has decided to take it upon himself to declare the Tea Party movement as "misdirected" because, after all, Obama has given 95% of the country a tax cut! I mean, honestly! How could anyone be so misled as to think that protesting tax cuts is a good thing? After all, isn't that what Republicans want at all costs?
First, the mistake that the liberals make is that the Tea Parties are a strictly Republican idea. They're wrong. I'm a Republican. Actually, scratch that. I was a Republican. I am not a Republican as of right now. I don't stand for the ideas of Democrats and I don't stand for the ideas of the Republicans. I've never been a party member, but I have thought (up until this election) that the Republicans are the best vehicle for Conservatism. That is no longer the case. I am a Conservative. I am not a Republican. The Tea Parties, I would say, are anti-government, not anti-Democrat. We don't like what's happening, period. We don't want Democrats and we don't want Republicans. Period. We're ticked off at the federal government as a whole. Period. There's no partisanship here. This is not a bad thing considering that the federal government has burst through the confines of the United States Constitution on just about every level. We want our Constitution back. The government fired the CEO of a private company? Really? That should terrify you! If it doesn't, you are WHACKED. The government is supposed to guarantee private property, not interfere in ANY way.
Second, is Axelrod really so stupid as to assume that we're stupid enough to not realize what they're doing? A trillion dollar bail out that nobody wanted that is doing absolutely nothing to help our economy, coupled with tax cuts? Is Axelrod the only one who doesn't see the disaster that such huge deficit spending is going to cause? Oh, no worries! We'll just print a ton of money that we really don't have the assets to back up and it'll all be okay! Except for the ghastly high inflation we're going to have in about a year, right? Yeah. Except for that.
See, we don't mind the tax cuts. We would prefer tax cuts across the board. The key is "95%". The upper 5% are getting crushed by taxes. (Darn those capitalist pigs, right?) We want tax cuts for EVERYONE and we want government spending to STOP so that we actually have a surplus? You know... That thing that has to happen so we make money so we can actually pay off the debts we have already? The government may have cut taxes for the majority of people. (Personally, I don't see those cuts anywhere.) But it won't matter! In a year or two, we'll have inflation that will take the place of the tax cuts. We have to pay for high spending somewhere, people. That's a fact. You have to pay for it in high taxes, high interest rates, or high inflation. You will ALWAYS pay for it. Some ways are natural (high taxes and interest rates) and some aren't natural (high inflation). If you have inflation, that won't actually ever take care of the problem.
Anyway, before I get carried away with another economics lesson (it may be too late), I'm gonna stop and just say: Axel-face, my man. We appreciate the tax cuts. Really, we do. You're right when you say it's what we "Reaganites" have always wanted. But, see, we're not stupid. We realize that tax cuts without everything else that should accompany tax cuts is not a tax cut in the long run. In the long run, the federal government is DESTROYING the country's economy. All the government cares about is fixing things today, but we citizens are smart enough to look toward the horizon and see what's going to happen tomorrow. The government has stepped far out of the Constitutional boundaries with huge power grabs like with Government General Motors. We all know what it's trying and we've had it. You and your ilk have been pulling this crap since Carter and we're DONE.
And you know what else? It ain't personal. See, the Republicans are just the same way. They betrayed everything they stood for by reaching across the aisle to the liberals who have nothing but themselves in mind. The Republican party is equally as stupid to realize that this bipartisan plan is not going to work. It cost us a vital election. We would have had the election on a silver platter if McCain was as solid a conservative as Palin. So now, with the government swelling to engulf our entire lives and with the economy falling apart around us, we blame Republicans. We blame Democrats. We blame everyone in the government right now and we want you ALL to get out! We want the small federal government of old!
Thankfully, the Constitution guarantees us the right to criticize you. So call off your Homeland Security peons.
Thank you, and good night.