Tea Party Movement

Our nation needs a third party.  In truth there is very little difference in the Republican and Democrat Parties, they agree in principal on just about everything, then disagree on some hot button issues.   Republicans want more government when it comes to abortion and Democrats want less.  Through out their history they take turns on which party is for peace and which party is for war but both line their members pockets from our national treasury through jobs, favors, and government contracts and that is really what they fight about, control of our nation's checkbook.

So yeah for the Tea Party, right?  The Tea Party is for less taxes and less government right?  What does that really mean, less taxes and less government?  What programs are they going to abolish in order to reduce taxes?  What laws are they going to repeal to create less government?  The Tea Party is thin on explanations and when one actually looks at the polling done of those who claim to be Tea Party supporters it becomes no clearer to me what they really stand for.

For example take their darling, Sara Palin, she really gets them on their feet at their rallies but what exactly has Palan done to inspire?  She has less experience that then Texas Governor George Bush who put our nation into two of the longest on going wars in American history with no real end in sight and his policies led to the financial collaspe of our economy putting our nation at the brink of another 1929 depression, is that really what we want again in a leader?  I have search high an low for any acomplishments either in government or in the faith of Palin and frankly the only person I can find that Palin has helped is herself and her family.  She says she is for less government and less taxes yet one of her greatest accomplisments as governor of Alaska was getting the tax on export Alaskan oil increased so her and her family can receive more money from that tax increase.  Palin blast entitlement programs yet she seems to believe she and her family are entitled to some of our money solely because she lives in Alaska.  How is she any different from the disabled person living on the street that believes he or she is entitled?  What makes Palan's  entitlement valid and everyone elses false and why aren't the Tea Party Movement supporters asking her these questions since they think they have the answers?

Our health care debate has really brought out the nasty in people.  Today I read about a marine, Sgt. Gary Stein, complaining about Obama's health care.  Now here is a man who receives government provided health care complaining about others  receiving the same.  What does this marine want America to do with its poor and uninsured, wheel them out onto the sidewalks of our hospitals and let them die?  Is this really the kind of nation he wants to fight and possibility die for?  A nation that will spend billions providing free healthcare in foreign nations but will not spend one penny to help our own?  What this marine fails to understand is I pay much higher costs through my taxes to provide for his healthcare that he believes he is entitled to and in insurance premiums for my healthcare  because our current system has to pass the costs of providing services to the poor and those who refused to buy insurance on to those of us who do pay.  Doctors and hosptials can not be expected to assorb those costs when they treat someone who could afford insurance but fails to by it, in order to stay in business they have to pass that costs on to those of us who do pay and that is the unfairness in the individual freedom debate.  Unless we are prepared to allow the doctors and hospitals to wheel these dead beats out onto the sidewalks and watch them die, then we must have a system that forces everyone to buy private insurance just as we have laws that force everyone to have shots or attend school or wear seatbelts or a host of other laws that government mandates and that brings us back to the Tea Party Movement.  In most of the polling of those who claim to be Tea Party supporters, they do not want to abolish Social Security and Medicare, the two entitlement programs that is sucking this nation dry, the less government they want becomes very unclear because they only seem to want these entitlement programs for themselves and not for the rest of us.  They like Palin and this marine seem to think they are entitled but no one else.  And let us be clear, 36 months after someone has been on Social Security and Medicare, they have exhausted all the money they paid into Social Security and Medicare and sometimes more, after they have been on it for 72 to 84 months they have used up all their children have paid in and those who continue to live beyond this time are drawing what their grandchildren are paying in so don't give me that line that you have paid for it, because unless you die in the first 36 months of being on Social Security or Medicare no one has paid in enough to support their life time on these programs. 

I will be the first to admit that the Obama healthcare law isn't my first choice I would have liked a law that was stronger on forcing those who can afford to buy private health insurance to do so but given that almost one half of our congress refused to take part, I figure this law may be the best possible at this time so if anyone is to blame, I blame the Republicans who chose politics over the good of our nation.  Shame on them and shame on those who send these bums back to Washington this fall.  Every Republican who failed to set at the table and work out a better deal for America should be thrown out of office on their butts.  At least the Democrats tried and one can only imagine how much better of a law we could have had if moderate Repubicans had joined moderate Democrats locking out the extremest on both the right and left but the GOP would not allow it and we wonder why we get the bums we get in congress, we vote them into office and then will not kick them out when they fail to do the job they are elected to do, represent us. 

I propose we change Social Security and Medicare so when a retiree exhausts all that he or she paid in plus reasonable interest that they be changed over to Welfare and Medicaid.  I don't propose cutting their checks, only changing the title of the funds they draw from so Americans can really see what is wrong in this nation.  I hear people on Social Security and Medicare blast Welfare and Medicaid and these people need a reality check.  They are not and have not paid their own way either.  I also propose that for anyone under the age of 65 that a decreasing scale be established giving them the ability to pay more into Social Security and Medicare extending the amount of time they will draw from these two progams and establish a time in the future when checks will be decreased greatly when one has exhausted all they paid in.  This would put our nation on a sound financial future and give today's youth the ability to increase how long they will receive funds from Social Security and Medicare.  Why doesn't the Tea Party talk about these issues and present solutions?  Where are the details?

Our Boston Tea Party came about because the British government, our government, was spending its own money to provide for the defense of the American Colonies.   A bloody war, the French and Indian war was fought and the British government shouldered that debt and in an attempt to share that costs, our government enacted a very modest tax on imported tea.  By todays standard that tax was almost nothing and I would love to trade it for our mountains of taxes today, yet some felt they should have to pay none of their own defense costs.  Those who took part in the Tea Party raid were protesting against their government over who should pay for their own protection, for some reason they believed they should get a free ride and not have to pay for their own protection.  Ask any high school history teacher, and if they are honest, they will be forced to agree that what I state was true so today's Tea Party movement is very much like that Tea Party movement.  Most of those who support todays Tea Party are white males who are either on Social Security and Medicare or within ten years of going on it and they claim they want less government when in reality it seems they just want a free ride and have someone else pay their bills and they fear Obama healthcare threatens their entitlements.  If they wanted fairness then they would accept deep cuts in Social Security and Medicare because they didn't pay in enough when they were working to provide the entitlements they enjoy and don't want less of.  For those who are soon to enjoy those entitlements, we need to pay a lot more in than we have to help support the amounts we will receive in our lifetime.  It is as simple as that. I am a 57 year old southern white male and I know there are no free rides, when someone benefits that means someone else is paying, and I say  it is time for Palin and her followers to give up their entitlements so we can truely have less government and less taxes after all Sara, Alaska is part of the US so why should the rest of us pay a fee that goes into your pocket to use America's resources?  You want less taxes and less government then get after it and start in your own backyard.

The common complaint I hear about Omaba's health care is we are providing services for those who are lazy and are not willing to work.  I have ponder this for years.  We claim to be a Christian nation and many give 10% to their church but will not give 1 penny to someone in need mostly because they are judged as lazy.  Why?  If God knows all, if He know how each one of us will live out our lives before we are even born, then it must be that God knowingly puts lazy people here on earth; so what can be God's purpose?  It must be God wants to test those who claim to be his people to see if their actions equal their claims.  After all if you can willingly give to someone you have judged as lazy then you truely are storing your riches in heaven and not here on earth. If Christians had been doing that which Christ told his followers to do we would not have a health care crises.  I challenge any minister or man or woman that claims to be Christian to prove me wrong. 

From where I am sitting the Tea Party Movement is a bunch of self rightous selfish people who have only riticule and one liners with no solutions.  Might be entertaining but it isn't what America needs, it is no better than the Dem and GOPs we already are burdened with.