As some may recall, the tea party came to be on this date, two years ago after a rant by Rick Santelli who has largely been forgotten by the tea parties he founded, except today when he gets a mention in this blog and in the Chicago Tribune. About two months earlier Barack Obama had taken the oath of office and totally ruined America which was just fine, thank you very much, with George Bush in office, enjoying cheap gas, full employment and absolutely NO Sharia law!
I'm not buying his founding fatherness. I think the tea parties came to be early in the Fall of '08 when republicans realized even chicanery in Florida wasn't gonna get John McCain elected. This was surely cemented when Palin was chosen as his running mate and was really solidified when even the price of gas being magically raised to over $4 a gallon could not deter the American voter from hope for change. I think Rick just showed up early at a party metaphorically drunk and disorderly and then went home and passed out. If he was some kind of hero, wouldn't he be on Foxnews and running for president with the rest of their emplyees?
After the shenannigans in Wisconsin earlier this year, it's quite evident that all the tea parties are fronts for wealthy (republican) corporate interests. They get the governor that they pay for. The next one will have Caller ID, I think. These people (and companies) already pay scant little in taxes so they really can't bitch about that. But, profits would definitely go up with pesky unions out of the way. Next to fall by the wayside would be that horrible minmum wage act. Only socialist/communist/islamists would set a bar like that! Capitalists don't need that! Why limit people? If the free market dictates $2 an hour as an acceptable wage, it is a FREE MARKET saying that, by golly!
Oh, I'm sorry- does that seem ridiculous to you? Well, eliminate social programs along with the minimum wage, unemployment benefits, workman's compensation and all the etc's unions and democrats brought us and $2 an hour might surely be better than nothing at all.
The American Dream is still alive. We've just exported it to China is all.
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