I too am pissed at our government!!!

[howaboutme]

So what does that make me according to the media....revolutionary, racist, unpatriotic?

I agree 200% with the concept that more Americans need to get angry, become involved and if necessary march in the streets, and peacefully change things at the polls. We have a government beholden to corporate America, special interests and lobbyists often working for other countries.

--I'm pissed about a government that seems to be posturing to involve us in another war, and this time with Iran and that will result in $10 gasoline and break our fragile economy. Who benefits?

--I'm pissed at a government that has refused for decades to defend our US economy. Instead it signs trade pacts that encourages one way, unfair trade and encourages corporations to outsource jobs at will. We can hardly find anything left made in the USA except corrupt Wall Street products.

--I'm pissed with a government that kowtows to business interests and refuses to allow American labor to experience the same free market forces that allows business to raise prices in the face of product shortages. Instead of allowing wages to rise for Americans in good times they refuse to enforce laws against employers who hire illegal labor and allow more open flood gates for temporary work visas thus making it difficult for Americans to get a fair return on the education investment such as nursing or engineering. They do this when real unemployment is 15%.

--I'm pissed about a government that after 10 years still has a manipulative corrupt computer controlled election system.

--I'm pissed about a government that didn't offer single payer insurance that could have cut the health care costs by at least a third, and made us a country where people could become entrepreneurs, innovators, reduce stress and not be tethered to employer provided health care.

--I'm pissed about a government that has allowed an economy to become structured where most of the income goes to a special club on Wall Street who produce nothing of tangible worth for the country except for massive compensation for their own club, and in the process, as demonstrated in the past two years, have harmed and pillaged the world economy while sucking on the taxpayers teats.

--I'm pissed about a government that continues to allow elections to be decided by $$$$$.

--I'm pissed at a government that borrows from China so that it can wage war, redistribute the wealth to the rich, powerful, corporate elite and countries that don't need our money.

--I'm pissed at a government that took our social security surplus money and used it to fight wars in the Middle East and give tax cuts to the rich and now that it is gone and they are calling it an entitlement.


I'm honestly and strongly considering attending a Tea Party rally and piggy backing with my own cause and sign. We the people must get the attention of Washington elite and get our country back, and the thought of it scares the crap out of the political elite. George Carlin has said it perfectly....THEY (the elite) don't want us involved, or educated as critically thinking thoughtful people.

To quote it as only Carlin could say..."They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago." http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/331953

What are you angry about?

[babylonsister]

1. You're 'considering' going to a tea party?

:rofl: Were you pissed the past 8 years, because I missed your howls of outrage then. And btw, couldn't get past this:

--I'm pissed about a government that seems to be posturing to involve us in another war, and this time with Iran and that will result in $10 gasoline and break our fragile economy. Who benefits?

Do you have proof of that, because afaik, McCain is the only one in full-throated outrage because we haven't bombed Iran yet. Our 'government' is trying to handle Iran diplomatically; I don't think another war is what they really want, unlike the sore loser.

[Jennicut]

3. Tea baggers are not really angry either. Just bored and directionless without

a Rethug in charge of the Presidency.

[howaboutme]

4. Lobbyists and their $$$$ run our Congress...doesn't that piss anyone off?

You mean why wasn't I pissed at Bush? The fact is I was. I called and wrote many letters regularly to Bush and Congress in opposition to what was going on. Those letters have only a very tiny bit of influence and it would be tiny even if we all wrote. Congress listens to $$$ and lobbyists and it is that which has finally gotten the goat of Americans. My theory is that a baby boomer bubble that has demographically gotten older and started retiring is going to be a force to be reckoned with and more involved with and influence on Washington. The only question is how malleable and manipulatable will they be?

Surely you too are pissed about lobbyists running the USA and buying elections using corrupt voting machines, or a Wall Street that runs wild. Surely you too are pissed about the saber rattling going on with some in Congress towards Iran? Sanctions could be defined as an act of war?

Concerning Iran I hope you are correct, but the rumblings and innuendos from pundits are there with Iran just as it was with Iraq. All that is missing is a PNAC 9-11 type event. There is a fair chance the USA is being set up for a Gulf of Tonkin incident that will get the USA involved. McCain and Lieberman and others are praying for it.

Most Americans even tea baggers are rightfully pissed at the direction of the country where money and special interests rules the roost even with many Democratic politicians at the expense of the greater good. The difference between many of them is that I voted for and generally support Obama, and I'm even more angry with the corporatist Republicans. The rich Koch brothers, Dick Armey, Republicans via Freedom Works are trying to hijack the tea baggers. I don't generally buy that most tea baggers are Republicans. Many are independents.

The MSM does what it does best by being a propaganda agent for the elite, and by using the racist card when it wants to discredit people. Even Fox News is getting into that act. Truth be known - neither of the Parties wants an involved electorate as George Carlin stated. They want to call the shots and control the system for their own benefit without any disruption from we the people.

[liberal N proud]

5. After 8 years, suddenly you are pissed?

[howaboutme]

7. May I suggest

that you read first and then comment. It usually works best that way. Where did I say I just now got pissed? Society just like most people have a way of moving in waves where resentment builds until enough people say enough and then things change.

[liberal N proud]

2. I am pissed that so many are so easily manipulated to follow

So many are following this anti government movement because the talking heads tell them to.

I am pissed because people can't think for them selves and how the government does or doesn't effect them. I am pissed because they let some rich bastard on propaganda TV tell them what they think.

I am pissed that this works collectively on a nation. The Nazi and Russian propaganda machines would be envious of the way propaganda works in this empire.

I hope you enjoy the fascism the Tea Baggers bring us.

[howaboutme]

6. Hopefully demanding honest government by the people is not anti-government

When groups of informed Americans are demanding more influence and a more responsive government I see it as a good thing for our democratic republic regardless of the politics involved. Politics eventually balance out. But the worst thing for our country is for the citizenry to be lemmings and uninvolved and unconcerned.

I couldn't agree more that Americans are now as manipulated into group think as were the Germans by the Nazis and Soviets by the Bolsheviks and communist propaganda machines.

The single most destructive and detrimental act perpetrated on Americans was allowing the media to become consolidated and corporatized. Instead of independent publishers and station owners vying for customers and Pulitzers using investigative reporting and serving a role of demanding accountability and keeping politicians honest, they became corporate gatekeepers with corporate interests and coordinated messages. The media today works in concert and partnership with government rather than as an advocate for the people. It is doubtful if the current non-competitive media would ever break a controversial major story (such as Watergate) that would be hugely detrimental to politicians and governments.