Friday, October 7, 2011

Hey, Tea Party, are you always wrong?

I have been reading the blogs for the last few days, and I want to make sure I have all this right.
-- Cain, people who aren't rich, is it really all their fault? For 1 thing, in a perfect economic model, the line wouldn't be straight, where everyone made the same amount, it would be a Bell Curve. You remember a Bell Curve, right? Very few would be severely poor or extremely wealthy, and most would fall in the middle. So your basic premise is wrong. And what does our country's economic Bell Curve look like? This gets us to-
--Cantor, ordinary people protesting financial institutions that helped ruin the economy institutes is a mob? How many have broken into those institutions? How many have taken acts of violence? I would say if the number isn't 0, it is in the single digits. What is happening isn't a mob, but a non-violent protest. And when those institutions get regulations trying to insure that what happened in the mid 2000s culminating in the ecpnomic bust in 2008 won't happen again, they ask you and your kind to repeal those laws. You agree to do so. And does the mob go and take action against you and the rest of the Tea Party? No, they are peacefully protesting, not trying to enforce mob rule.
But now we get to the person that the Tea Party doesn't like-
--Romney, we need more military? Where? We need to get out of Iraq, and I don't mean leave a few trainers. Out completely. Why are we still there? And no, I'm no peace-loving nut. I'm a retired military man. Why are we still in Europe, by the way? Is it that horrible Cold War? That was over 20 years ago. We need to defend against the USSR? Oh, that's right, there hasn't been a USSR in nearly the same time. And I haven't even brought up Afghanistan. Why? Because we still do need to be there for a while, not to prop up a corrupt government, but to insure a draw-down that is as bloodless as possible. We went there to ensure Al-Quida (I hope that's the spelling of the day) couldn't attack us from that region, and to eliminate its head people including Bin-Laden. Job done. Now let's go home. And I hate to tell you, but we as a country have made mistakes. We've propped up, and are still propping up, evil dictators who mercilessly brutalized their country. Shouldn't we acknowledge and apologize for those action? Only smug, arrogant groups refuse to do that, but you already belong to a group like that, don't you? Yes, the group is called The Tea Party.  

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