to FAUX News, please tell us what your reality tv "movement" known as the Tea-Party is FOR.

[JohnWxy]

We all know what they are against: that they are frustrated, angry and certainly confused, mostly old fat farts who are against taxes, but you don't get to be a movement unless you can state what you are FOR. You also should be able to articulate how you intend to accomplish what you are FOR. Just being frustrated, angry and confused does not make you a movement. Faux's reality tv show, the Tea-Party 'movement' is just a rerun of that old show: "Government is the problem" ala that 'B' movie actor's script.

If you live in a society, (if you are not a troglodyte, that is) you will have to have a government. It has been stated that societies institute governments to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty". It is understood that a government should assume the responsibilies of Government to achieve these stated ends.

There is nothing new to this Tea-Party "movement". It is just an example of the well known human tendency to wish difficulties and problems would go away. The partiers and paraders for the cameras, exemplify a human penchant for avoiding responsibility. In a democracy, the government is run by the people. When people shirk their responsibilities as citizens, to be informed voters, substituting repetitive chants for thought, then demagogues delight and we all suffer. The Tea-Partiers seem to want a government which shrinks from it's responsibilities (to establish a fair and just and orderly society). When a government abandons its responsibilities, this is a prescription for disaster.

What the Tea "Party" seems to want is a shrinking government. Well, we've had that. The Bush administration cheerfully yielded it's responsiblities to special interests (corporations, banks, predatory lenders.. whoever had the money to buy the Government). What we got was a decade of zero job growth, declining median household income, the http://motherjones.com/politics/2008/05/foreclosure-phil">DEREGULATION DISASTER, an abandonment of the war on terror for a war to free Iraqi oil (there were no terrorists in Iraq until we went there) and an exploding national debt (begun in the Bush administration and fed even futher by the necessary steps taken to rebuild an economy devastated by the DEREGULATION DISASTER). This REPUBLICAN DYSTOPIA, in which we are now mired, is the direct result of a government which abandoned it's responsibilties to the people and handed over control to the highest bidders and zealots.

Personally, I have no interest in seeing a mis-managed, mis-directed, out-sourced government afflict this nation again. I don't think we can afford it. Public policy decided by corporate boards of directors, is stupid public policy (not to mention the fact that it slightly contradicts our whole notion of government run by and for the people..... for those who care about such things). Being a corporate serf does not meet my definition of liberty.