Greg Vernon

Why I Skipped The Tea Parties

No, it has nothing to do with Maddow's et al "tea bagging" joke.

I definitely didn't skip because I somehow support the ridiculous tax and spend plan of Obama - or worse - the don't tax and but spend plans of the previous administrations.

What I noticed, as the Tea Party movement grew, is that rather than protesting taxes, economic fascism (supply/demand manipulation through regulation), and an unstable currency the Tea Party Protesters only seemed to be concerned about Obama.  Just Obama.

A contact from Austria asked the question: would the protesters care if it was McCain & Palin on the spending spree?  Would Maddow still be piddling adult humor at her viewers? Both; the protesters wouldn't care but Maddow, being the pillar of morals she is, would still be treating her viewers like hormone-enraged middle schoolers.

It seems to me that most of everyone who attended these rallies where spurred on by the talking heads at Fox screaming "Socialism!" when the tax dollars went from funding wars over seas to "saving jobs" in the U.S. itself.

Don't get me wrong, I don't support public funds going into private bank accounts.  Nor do I support fighting a war on emotions in countries on the other side of a globe.  In both of those situations, I am a debt slave; a slave to China or the IMF or whomever my "representatives" are willing to sell me to.

To me, that's not the worst part.  What is really frightening - and truly saddening - is that the generations of Americans after me share the same fate.  My kids and their kids - whom have yet to even know life and the ideas of freedom - will be born into slavery.

So, to align these two tangents: I skipped the Tea Parties because those organizing the events missed the point.  If we're in a war in Iraq or bailing out GM it doesn't much make a difference: we're still selling ourselves into bondage and worse: we're selling our children into slavery without giving them a fair chance.

We must fix the real issues; end the Federal Reserve system, stop printing money, and, most importantly, stop whining about who's in the White House when the person we want in would do the same thing!