Bill Clinton was and is right about the Tea Party!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

In Former President Bill Clinton’s book , “Back to Work- Why we need smart Government for a strong economy”, written back in 2011, he writes;

“The antigovernment movement’s most cherished conviction is that we can’t raise the taxes on the “job creators.” And not just while the economy is weak- not ever. Indeed, if it were up to them, they would cut taxes on high-income Americans even more, as they pledged to do in the 2010 campaign, and use the revenue shortfall as a reason to eliminate even more of the federal government than they have proposed to do in 2011.

The biggest problem with their argument is that we tried it their way for twenty of the last thirty years, and their strategy of using blanket tax cuts for high-income individuals didn’t work. In these twenty years, average job growth was under one million per year, income inequality increased dramatically, more people fell from the middle class back into poverty, and more middle-class people with nonexistent pay raises kept up with inflation by maxing out their credit cards and taking second mortgages on their homes, until household debt exceeded 125 percent of income.

The Tea Party retort, of course, is that past Republican presidents and members of Congress were committed to cutting taxes and weakening regulation but weren’t really serious about cutting spending. They say they are serious about it and that will make all the difference. They’re right about that. They are serious about it, and if their policies prevail, it will make a difference. It will make things worse.”

And how right he was then and now with these three paragraphs! The Tea Party has no idea what they will cause and are causing to America. The citizens that are backing the Tea party just can’t see what is happening to them with these policies.
And I also find it interesting about the name “Tea Party”. They say it is a reference to the Boston tea party, but I find a different connection.

The policies that are indorsed by this party, that they backer of which are much of the 1 percent, causes a social structure much like the one back before the Revolution. The kind where the “Lower Class” was to shut up and listen to their betters, those with “better breading” and “Chosen by God”.

The people that have swallowed this are working fast and hard to give up all our rights and beliefs that all are created equal. They are ready to bow to the upper echelon and think we all should too.

They look up to those that have achieved the American dream, yet scoff and ridicule those out to find it. They seem to forget that the American dream is for everyone to hunt and find, and that we all are to help each other to reach it, not rip and tear each other down.

To them, the rich should be the dreamers and the achievers. Oh, they will argue the point, but their actions speak louder. Look at the policies they back!

The former president is right, they will make it worse. It is up to all of us to try and get them to see the light of their follies. We also need to stop those that are want the people to believe this doctoring of social order that gives special privilege to those with better finical outlooks and hurts , as well as practically enslaves those that don’t.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

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