Tea-baggers have been out in force today promoting their ignorance to the public. An interview of an organizer in Syracuse revealed that she was currently on medicare and had retired on disability, but didn’t want this nation becoming a nanny-welfare state where people accept government money. I’m guessing she doesn’t include herself as one of the participants as she doesn’t understand that all of her programs are government subsidized as she didn’t pay enough taxes over her lifetime to cover what she is now receiving monthly.
Most of these “Tea-baggers” also fail to realize that they aren’t protesting Obama’s “Tax” but George W. Bush, whom many of them approved of while he was in office. Obama hasn’t made a single change to this years tax code, he also wasn’t the only President to sign a stimulus bill.
As the country slowly moves toward recovery, it’s nice to see people still getting out there to claim that they know the stimulus plan will not work. Because they are all economists themselves, obviously, except most economists say the best way out of a recession, when everyone else stops spending is for the Government to spend.
If everyone stops spending at the same time, which would have happened if the Government hadn’t upped their amount of spending, then NOTHING would be spent and the wheels of “Capitalism” would grind to a halt.
For those that claim that giving the money directly back to the taxpayers is the best plan, you also need to re-think things in the eyes of a larger economy that doesn’t necessarily include you getting everything you would like. Giving “Joe the Taxpayer” the money directly doesn’t help very much in the overall picture. Having an extra $500 in your pocket when everyone says times are “tough” would cause you to place the money away for a time when it is really tough, which doesn’t help the economy one bit.
Giving the money to banks so that they don’t collapse, and can turn around and lend that money out to current and new businesses will help create jobs or retain jobs that would have been lost.
Once the widespread panic slows down, companies will also stop using the excuse of a recession to fire people they wanted to fire before, but didn’t have a good enough excuse, and they will start hiring as sales pick up again.
Fox news promoted this Tea-Bag Initiative and took it as their own, whether they started it in the first place, or just used the Pirates to take over the steaming ship, it has now become a Fox Right-Wing Media Extravaganza.
Nice going participants.
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