Guardian: The Tea Party is a real threat to America

[seafan]

Sunday 31 July 2011

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Economically, the Tea Party argument is feeble. Countries' debts are not like individual households; they can be serviced over generations. In the aftermath of a credit crunch, a country that tries simultaneously to cut public and private debt will suffer prolonged economic stagnation or depression. The cost in lost opportunity, broken lives and bust businesses is too high to slash public debt; indeed, the right action may be to increase it.

Nor is tax in essence different from any other fee: it is the cost of services rendered, and some services such as defence, security, healthcare and investment in innovative technology are best rendered by society as a whole. Hence taxation.

All the US's great advances – in the internet, computers, aerospace, space, the internal combustion engine, drugs, optics – have had the federal government as their sponsor. A well-designed social security system offers people security while not removing their incentive to work; well-judged federal spending on innovation boosts the economy; a banking system needs federal deposit insurance and a central bank as a lender of last resort when banks are distressed.

But in the land inhabited by Michele Bachmann, these propositions are false; they undermine US self-reliance and individualism and obstruct America's road back to greatness. ..... Maybe there will be a bargain at one minute to midnight, but until the Tea Party Republicans are exposed as dangerous charlatans and their support recedes, the threat to the US is ever-present.

Let's not forget the Tea Partiers of the Senate.


Here is Florida's.



Marco Rubio




We can use all of the media help we can get right now. Thank you, Guardian.

[aquart]

1. The Scum Billionaire conspiracy is a real threat to America.

Murdoch fans the flaming ignorance and the Koch brothers fund it.

[seafan]

2. Marco Rubio the No. 1 recipient of Koch money in 2010 Senate races

The Kochs created these monsters.


Indeed.


While the Koch billionaires gave birth to this "Tea Party", Rupert Murdoch's criminal American enterprise and right wing hate radio fuel the rage and ignorance.

[msongs]

3. Obama prefers we be bipartisan and treat teabagger philosophy as equivalent thank you nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. This reads like the early reports from Nazi Germany filed

by Shirer...

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/0671728687

This is scary

[pampango]

5. "until the Tea Party Republicans are exposed as dangerous charlatans and their support recedes..."

"Maybe there will be a bargain at one minute to midnight, but until the Tea Party Republicans are exposed as dangerous charlatans and their support recedes, the threat to the US is ever-present."

The last sentence in the article tells it all.

[WinkyDink]

6. THERE IS NO "TEA PARTY." These morons are Radical REPUBLICANS, registered as "R"!