The Tea Party Movement

My ideas for this blog usually come from some sort of news source or some political commentary that I think is interesting and then I research to the best of my ability the facts. Last night while watching a political satire show I heard a very interesting perspective that totally made sense and I would like to share parts of it here. After reading the post ask yourself what the real motive is behind the Tea Partiers. For those that don't know the Tea Party movement says that they are for less government, less spending and less taxes. So lets look at the facts. In 2009 more than ninety percent of the people in this country paid less taxes than they did under George Bush the year before. Where was the movement during the Bush years when spending was out of control? Anyways the comedian says the Tea Partiers are right about one thing, we have to bring down the national debt as we now pay about four hundred billion every year in interest alone. But the problem with the Tea Party movement is that they want to deregulate the free market and keep their jobs here in the U.S. They want guaranteed health coverage regardless of pre existing conditions without a mandate form the federal government. They want big tax cuts along with deficit reduction. I cant even think of a suitable analogy for that disconnect. It would be like thinking getting a handjob will clean your garage. In fairness its not just the Tea Party movement, if you ask the American people how they want to tame the deficit, either by raising taxes or cutting spending. Cutting spending wins always and by a huge margin in the poles. So what government spending do you want to see cut? The answer from the people is nothing, not a thing. America is like a family that spends way more than they bring in but mom wont give up her shopping sprees and dad wont give up that big boat he bought. Even now when we cant afford that boat and do you know what Americas boat is? It's our empire. Face it we have an empire. We have half a million troops in other peoples countries all over the world. And maintaining that empire and everything that goes into defense costs us about a trillion (that's right a trillion) dollars a year most of which goes to fighting the Russians in 1978. Fighter planes that we need for all the dogfights we get into with the Taliban, submarines to foil their plots to blow up our ships with car bombs, and space lasers to shoot down their exploding underwear. What defense spending really is, is a giant welfare program. A giant jobs program for defense workers to build crap that we don't need. So when Tea Partiers scream about handouts this is what they should be protesting. We spend more on weapons than the top 15 military powers combined. Cut it in half and see if anyone invades us. So if Tea Partiers will start protesting that I will believe that you really are "We the People" what about our grandchildren patriots. But if your unwilling to cut defense spending and give up the empire then you don't really care about the debt. He goes on with opinion about what the Tea Party movement is really about and I am not going to get into that, but think about what you just read and ask yourself are we really any different from the Roman or British empires. Why do we have massive troop numbers in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and every other foreign country we decide to meddle in. Wouldn't protecting our borders in this country with those troops be a much less expensive and more productive way of insuring our safety. Imagine this, China decides our government is being controlled by large corporations and our people no longer have a say so in how we the people conduct our lives. China sends a hundred and fifty thousand troops to topple our president and restore our former way of life. How would you feel having Chinese planes controlling our skies, and Chinese tanks and troops patrolling our streets. I know how I feel and I would do everything I could to take out every last one of them until they were gone. I imagine that's how the other countries of this world feel about us being in their countries.