Tea Party activists are at it again. "Taxed to death" and "No Big Government" read the signs. I find I have to agree. According to Wikipedia, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security and Defense comprised 65 percent of the FY 2008 budget. Clearly, they are the biggest areas to cut.
Tea party fans, how many of you are for:
• Moving the Social Security retirement age to 75. (Effective 2010?)
• Cutting Social Security expenditures by 30 percent, effective 2010?
• Removing non-senior citizens from all Social Security and Medicare benefits?
• Eliminating the prescription drug benefit from Medicare?
• Closing all U.S., European and Asian military bases?
• Closing all underused domestic military bases?
• Completely pulling out of Iraq, effective immediately?
• Pulling out of Afghanistan immediately after the Taliban has been crushed, and Osama bin Laden has been killed?
Surely Corporate America will come up with suitable alternatives to a banana republic-style economy and social structure, right?
John T.L. Lee
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I think it's funny that one of the comments refers to 'tea-baggers' as homosexual slang. Are heterosexual people really that boring? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteThough, the GT did once have my posts removed because my avatar had the word 'teabagg'n.' I guess they came around, it's hard being ahead of the cultural curve.
In response to the letter, these are fair points. It amazes me how some people don't realize how necessary a government is to the functioning of society.
I liked the letter.
ReplyDeleteAs for teabagging, I heard that term (not in the political sense) in John Waters's 'Pecker' about 10 years ago (Great movie, BTW). In that case it was in a gay bar, but no, it is not unique to homosexuals as many other (cough) things apply to more than one orientation.
The commentator is ignorant when he/she says, "The term 'teabaggers" is used by opponents of the 'tea partiers". It is homosexual slang and was pretty much unknown outside of the gay community until it was made 'mainstream' by Democrats and liberals refering to the protestors."
He/she should get out more often and watch some John Waters films.
Love John Waters. I heard it an episode of Curb you Enthusiasm in 2000, and it was in some movie I saw in high school. Maybe, 'Clerks' or something like that. It was referencing a heterosexuals though.
ReplyDeleteIt can't be exclusively homosexual, you only need one man involved. And what about lesbians?
Some people are just strange.