Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Origins of OWS not the same as Tea Party
There have been thoughts on TV recently that the Tea Party has the same origin as Occupy Wall Street. I couldn't disagree any less. The origins of the Tea Party came from the idea that government was mis-spending taxes. Maybe a better way of saying it is that the Tea Party didn't believe their taxes was used in ways in that didn't represent their beliefs. Out of this idea came the political will to block all legislation from the Democratic Party. After all, if government couldn't be trusted to use taxes in ways that were acceptable to them, why trust it at all? So no ideas that they didn't some up with on their own were to be voted down. And everyone who disagreed with their views were to be ousted, or if not in office, voted down by any means necessary. Now Occupy Wall Street started as a way to protest the money and the power being in the hands of a few people. It protests the middle class' loss of wealth and money. Since in a truly free money market society this is impossible, Occupy Wall Street must look to government to help equalize the system. Not with hand-outs, but in laws fairly and equally distributed. To ensure that all are created and treated equal and not just some get the break, it is only a government that can level the field. So what will the political will be of this group? What will they require to keep government running? But 2 things when looking at the situations this way become very clear. One is that the 2 groups have very different agendas, and therefore different goals and means to get there. And the second thing is that only one group believes in the founding principle of this country, that all men are created equal and should be given equal chances to succeed. And it isn't the Tea party. Which side are you on?
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