tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post5332272218685541203..comments2023-10-26T07:19:41.446-05:00Comments on Science Avenger: The Tea Parties: Bad History, Bad CivicsScienceAvengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-24291784231290359842009-04-16T19:47:00.000-05:002009-04-16T19:47:00.000-05:00Goverment is not the solution to the problem, it i...<B>Goverment is not the solution to the problem, it is the problem.</B>This is why some of us resent Ronald Reagan for what he did to our discourse on governance. There was a time when capable, smart people could (and did!) go into government and build institutions. That was back when people believed we could make stuff happen by discussing our problems and figuring out what we wanted to do. They built the atomic bomb, put men on the moon, stabilized the banking system, and built a national infrastructure that whiners like us freeload off of today.<br /><br />Rhetoric like this has poisoned the whole process. Why we elect people who think this way to be stewards of those institutions is beyond me. All they do is make a lot of noise about how everybody is incompetent (except the military--those guys are still flawless, even though they're just government employees) and break things. <I>That's</I> the problem.Troublesome Frognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-61495570293617055882009-04-16T17:02:00.000-05:002009-04-16T17:02:00.000-05:00RR, the problem is that the vast majority of the p...RR, the problem is that the vast majority of the people involved in the TEA parties didn't seem the least bit concerned about these things when the people primarily responsible had R's by their names. But let some D's come along doing so and suddenly it's all about these principles and its not a left/right thing.<br /><br />Bollocks. Your tagline gives you away. Of course its a left/right thing, these events aren't remotely bipartisan. They are almost exclusively attended by those on the right. To those in the middle and on the left, it's either a big joke or a crazy, whiny racist fest. One attendee at a TEA party in Atlanta reported that the crowd was 100% white. In Atlanta. Ponder it. There is WAY more going on here than disatisfaction with pliticians.ScienceAvengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855046387193200080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3498725671447004370.post-72275920518876160932009-04-16T11:35:00.000-05:002009-04-16T11:35:00.000-05:00I would agree that we don't have taxation without ...I would agree that we don't have taxation without representation, but I think a strong correlation can be made between original tea party issues and current issues. While original tea partiers had no representation we have very little honest representation. I live in Chicago so I realize I am jaded but if the general public is angry about being taxed so that corporate execs can live high off the hog, and politicians can skim off from them and then they can give handouts to those that don't want to contribute to society or take ownership of their actions more power to them. I know the left's view point is to peg these individuals as crazy, whiney, racists who are upset they lost the election, but this is not a left right thing it is a fend up with the garbage thing!!!! "Goverment is not the solution to the problem, it is the problem." R.R.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com