Fuel For The Fire

I am interested in this tea bag party movement. Interested because one of the benefits of a depression as I pointed out some time ago was that our nation's over-indulged and overly complacent populace will no longer be able to sit idly by -- we'd have the courage to rally, to protest, to force reform. In this respect I see these teabaggers, not as the founders, but as the followers of a better national ethic towards reform. Look -- we can't force action on anything in this nation - not on our wars, our taxes, our energy dependence, nothing, and then we make the bold faced claim that our government is impotent and can't get anything done. Isn't impotence what these tea baggers want?

Not that I agree with the tea party. Not at all. They might be protesting specific taxation but they are totally and completely willing to enjoy the federal subsidies on their gold-plated sixteen lane freeways and cash their social security checks while ignoring how taxes pay for those. A national health care system? No way! Freeways? OK. They support a laissez-faire free-market system...free of governmental controls -- while ignoring the inevitable destruction of their "communities" as the only thing left in their cities will be a single 3.6 million sq ft consumption repository as it destroyed everything else in the last-one-standing economy of scale.

I also doubt, seriously doubt, that you will see a California tea party rally on the steps of the state Capitol holding a big bonfire rally burning all their newly extended federal unemployment checks using borrowed and newly printed dollars....Nope. Not gonna see that. But you might, just might, see a bonfire rally burning copies of that 2,000 page health care proposal. That, apparently, is an acceptable fuel for the fire.