Palmer Events Center
Notes on Tea-Bagging
RECEIVED Tue., April 21, 2009
Dear Editor,
What was the recent tea-bagger protest at City Hall all about anyway? Taxes are 10% lower now than under Ronald Reagan, so what are the tea-bag folks protesting? If taxes lower by 10% than under Reagan makes Obama a socialist, then I reckon Reagan himself was an actual communist.
Perhaps the tea-bag party was a protest of the Obama administration – now only in its infant stage of four months of a four-year term. Did things really get that bad in only four little ol' months? Perhaps the tea-bagging was protesting the dastardly results of last November’s general election, which the tea-baggers lost in a landslide. (They like democracy enough, so long as it is their side that wins. Obama gets no honeymoon from these cattle rustlers, liars, and thieves, and that includes Fox News.)
The symbolic throwing of tea into Lady Bird Lake by a mostly white crowd was also probably in protest of Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights laws and basic Keynesian economics which has left right-wing, rip-off monetarist policy and supply side economics in the dustbin of history.
George W. Bush and the GOP Congress got us into this mess by deregulating banks and other nefarious organizations like Enron. And it was the irresponsible tax cuts and two expensive, unsuccessful wars of George W. Bush which first led us to unsustainable deficits which do, indeed, threaten the prosperity of the country and passes the bill for it all right on down to our posterity – our children. (But I don’t think they were protesting about that, neither.)
Thankfully, Obama’s going to fix all that.
What was the recent tea-bagger protest at City Hall all about anyway? Taxes are 10% lower now than under Ronald Reagan, so what are the tea-bag folks protesting? If taxes lower by 10% than under Reagan makes Obama a socialist, then I reckon Reagan himself was an actual communist.
Perhaps the tea-bag party was a protest of the Obama administration – now only in its infant stage of four months of a four-year term. Did things really get that bad in only four little ol' months? Perhaps the tea-bagging was protesting the dastardly results of last November’s general election, which the tea-baggers lost in a landslide. (They like democracy enough, so long as it is their side that wins. Obama gets no honeymoon from these cattle rustlers, liars, and thieves, and that includes Fox News.)
The symbolic throwing of tea into Lady Bird Lake by a mostly white crowd was also probably in protest of Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights laws and basic Keynesian economics which has left right-wing, rip-off monetarist policy and supply side economics in the dustbin of history.
George W. Bush and the GOP Congress got us into this mess by deregulating banks and other nefarious organizations like Enron. And it was the irresponsible tax cuts and two expensive, unsuccessful wars of George W. Bush which first led us to unsustainable deficits which do, indeed, threaten the prosperity of the country and passes the bill for it all right on down to our posterity – our children. (But I don’t think they were protesting about that, neither.)
Thankfully, Obama’s going to fix all that.
Thom Prentice