The Tea Party’s National Day of Strike
Ladies and gents, it seems like it’s time for a little peaceful civil disobedience. Many thousands, maybe many hundreds of thousands, gathered in DC to protest health care and Obama’s plan to ruin America last September, and their voice is being ignored by Congress. The polls, which show that the majority of Americans are against the health care bill, are also being ignored as the Democrats bribe, lie, and change their precious bill in an attempt to get something, anything, passed to give them the opening they need to take control of the American health care system.
When your elected representatives ignore you, ignore the voice and will of the majority, what is a peaceful person to do? We realize that violence is not the answer, that there are many steps to take before open revolt is necessitated by the actions of the government that have crossed into oppression, and it seems that the Tea Party movement is beginning to take those steps.
From CNN:
“Tea Party activists are frustrated that despite a huge turnout over the last year Congress is ignoring them,” says Hardage, who is national operations director for the planned strike. “The question is that if the elected officials ignore you, what do you do to exercises your right to self-governance? So we decided to hold a National Day of Strike where we go after the large donors of the people pushing this radical agenda.”
Hardage says the idea of the one-day strike is to focus attention on the businesses that support the most liberal members of Congress as well as groups that advocate “big government” policies.
Now, I’ve been advocating this course of action for a couple of years (I really wasn’t a fan of Bush either). Money makes the world go ’round, and if we stop the flow of money, or seriously retard the rate of flow, we’re going to cause serious pains on the balance books of the US’s major corporations. As soon as the businesses which support the slime ball Congress critters in DC feel the pinch on their bottom lines, they’ll yank their lobbyists in for a stern lecture so fast that it’ll make their ears bleed.
In turn, the displeasure of the lobbyists will be felt by their automatons in Congress, most noticably in the realms of their bribe money and campaign funding.
And once Congressmen stop getting bribed, we’re going to get some serious changes.
Congress is controlled by powerful business interests. Congress won’t listen to us, so it’s time to by-pass them and go above their heads on the totem pole of power. Time to go to their superiors. And the experience of the unions in the early half of the last century shows that businesses respond to general strikes.
Even now, I can hear the cries of outrage from the liberals…
Libtard1: “Our economy is very tender at the moment. Such a strike would drive us head long into an open Depression!”
Libtard2: “Yeah! Is your partisanship so strong that you would be willing to destroy this Nation?”
Well, aside from the obvious fact that Obama and the Dem’s partisanship is certainly strong enough to destroy America (remember, they promised “fundamental change”), there are a couple of other glaring examples of liberal ignorance in these statements.
Our economy is very tender at the moment, and is not recovering. Federal money is being used to re-inflate an economic bubble that most Democrats, when their necks weren’t in the noose, called unsustainable, Bush’s fault, yada yada yada. Now that they’re on the Hot Seat, Bush’s “failed economic policies” seem to be a-ok with the Democrats in DC, so much so that they’re trying to re-inflate the bubble and live on the Bush model for a few more years.
We all know where this led us in the past, and where it will lead us in the future. And the libtards think that it’s naughty of conservatives to boycott this?
Maybe conservative voters screwed up supporting the Republicans that allowed this bubble to inflate, then pop. Entirely possible. But does that make the Democrat voters any less culpable if they allow their representatives to prolong the problem, if not make it worse?
Thus, we strike. Don’t go to work. Don’t buy goods subjected to a sales tax (which hits everything since these taxes are embedded in the prices of most goods). Take the fight to the people who matter, the people with the money which makes this political agenda go ’round.
But I do not like this particular approach by the Tea Parties, myself.
What good will a one day strike do?
How many of you remember the strike the private trucking industry engaged in two summers ago in response to high gas prices? You can read about it here, if you so desire.
What good did their strike do? It didn’t lower gas prices. It didn’t slow the economy. It didn’t impact the supply and flow of goods in this country. In short, it didn’t cause any stress great enough to make the strike noticeable.
What is needed is for the people who oppose the Democrats’ Plan to Destroy America to go on strike, true, but it has to be a real strike. The unions didn’t go on strike and picket for a single day then go back to work! They went on strike until they got what they wanted! And that’s what the Tea Parties need to do.
40% of this nation openly calls themselves “conservative”, maybe more, depending upon the polls you read. Could you imagine what having half of the population just sit down and refuse to be consumer cattle and economic sheep any longer would do to the finances of the businesses which are driving these changes? A general strike by conservatives that wouldn’t let up until UHC was thrown into the garbage can of history? A general strike that would not end until government spending was reined in? Until taxes were lowered from their current stratospheric heights?
The Congressmen and women of the US couldn’t ignore that like they ignored a million people standing out front of their offices, shouting their displeasure at them.
Well, they could ignore it, but it wouldn’t be wise of them to do so.
It’s time to stop beating around the bush with this crew of thieves and looters. It’s time to make sure that our elected representatives know what their job is, and that ignoring the majority of Americans is not going to be tolerated. Start storing up food, getting bottled water stashed away, etc, then go on strike and make it mean something.
If that doesn’t work, we’ll be one step closer to exercising our “…Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” (DoI), but there are steps we must take before extreme measures become necessary, and this is one of them.
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Teabaggers and others of that sad ilk are like the Anabaptists of yore, crazed enthusiasts for separating from any sort of government. Taken to the extreme – that is, an extreme even extremer than the one they are at – they can end only, like the their predecessors of the 16th century, in a self-justifying anarchy of violence. But not before splintering into a chaos of similar but fiercely competing smaller groups, each clinging viciously to its favorite constitutional amendment (but never the First).
I think you’re a little off-base there Parsifal. Most “teabaggers” (sidenote: that’s such a cliche at this point) are just scared about budget deficits and the size of government, and want to rein it all in. It’s that simple. They’re not against all government whatsoever. Nor is any self-respecting libertarian.
Parsifal:
“Taken to the extreme – that is, an extreme even extremer than the one they are at – they can end only, like the their predecessors of the 16th century, in a self-justifying anarchy of violence.”
No offense or anything fella, but does your one brain cell ever get lonely?
Have you ever contemplated what will occur when the government spends itself into oblivion due to liberal policies? Ever read anything about the situation in Zimbabwe where government debt caused hyperinflation that wrecked the economy? Or the similar situation which occurred in Weimar Germany and gave rise to Hitler? Ever read stories from Russia where it became cheaper to wipe your arse with currency than buy toilet paper?
When the government cannot afford to pay the police because they’ve blown all the money on SSI, Medicare, and Medicaid, what do you think is going to happen to places like the inner cities? I can assure you that the rural areas from which many of these Tea Party patriots hail won’t slip off into violent anarchy, those types of things have only occured in heavily Democratic / liberal places in the US, like LA, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, I mean, you never hear about lawless rioting in freakin’ Kansas…
Go figure. The looters and the theives that are intent on using the government gun to rob their way into prosperity rather than get a job and earn a living through honest work, you know, the Democrats and their ilk, are the ones who get upset whenever they’re pulled away from government nipple, not the self reliant, I-don’t-need-the-government conservatives.
But hey, it’s what I expect from a liberal. Complete ignorance of reality. Carry on.
PS: You do realize that when you call us “teabaggers”, you’re implying that there is also a “teabaggee”, correct? (“Teabaggee” meaning ‘the person getting teabagged’) You would be the teabaggee, you know?
Can you yodle? That’d be a nice talent for the teabaggees to have…
Right-wingnuts and other conservatives don’t like change until at least 50 years after it happens. Then they defend it as a venerable part of American culture and tradition. They fought Social Security to the mat and lost; now they’re retired on it. They attacked Medicare (still do, actually) with a Reagan-like looniness; now they’re glad their elders have it. They’re fighting health-care reform like mad dogs; once it happens they won’t be able to understand how we ever lived without it. Right-wingnuts and other conservatives suffer essentially from one thing: blindness. They have no forward vision to see what the nation needs, and they have no historical understanding to see what we have done and where we came from. Pity, really.
“does your one brain cell ever get lonely?” Oh, that IS clev-air. Let’s see, what sort of riposte would be appropriate? I’ve got it: I know you are, but what am I?
The reference to Hitler is a nice touch, too. No right-wing screed is complete without a reference to Hitler.
Speaking of having no historical understanding, you seem to be its Poster Boy: “Or the similar situation which occurred in Weimar Germany and gave rise to Hitler? Ever read stories from Russia where it became cheaper to wipe your arse with currency than buy toilet paper?” Uh, the hyper-inflation that you attribute to Russia actually happened in 1920s Germany. It came about mostly but not totally from the impossibility of making the reparations demands required by the Versailles Treaty, not because the Weimar Republic (which anyway was broke from World War I) spent itself crazy. Economics had to do with the ascendancy of Hitler really in only one way: unemployment; Germans welcomed anyone who looked as if he could give them a job. The essential cause of his rise was that the majority of political parties – especially those on the right – were determined to see that the Weimar experiment in democracy failed. No one wanted it, not the Centrists, not the Conservative, not the Catholic party, not the gaggle of extreme-right parties, not even the Communists. Only the Social Democrats (hint: the liberals) fought for democracy’s survival. When Hitler, the quintessential conservative (do not be fooled by the Socialist in National Socialist), came to power, he took care of them right quick. Others too, of course.
If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, you are positively toxic.
Ahhh… The sound of liberals lamenting the truth is music to my ears.
Every where and every when liberal policies have been tried, they have failed, and failed miserably.
You try to discourse on the rise of Hitler by admitting that over-spending bankrupted the country during WW1, plunging it into an economic crisis which he rode to power, just like Alexander Tytler said would happen. Poor fiscal policy led to the rise of a dictator (a socialist man of the left, mind you) who butchered millions, and you try to say that I’m a bad guy for pointing this out?
You try to tell me that Russia never had hyperinflation, heck, let’s let your own words do the talking:
“the hyper-inflation that you attribute to Russia actually happened in 1920s Germany”
Well, I had already mentioned that the Weimar Republic (that is 1920s Germany, btw. You just tried telling me that this didn’t happen, remember? That the problem was unemployment?) had hyperinflation, but here’s a news flash: Russia did too!
Yep. Russia had a massive debt that it defaulted on, just like Zimbabwe and 1920s Germany, it inflated its money supply to try and pay it off (like America is going to do as soon as credit dries up), and suffered massive inflation (which America is already suffering from without even trying to pay off our debt). This collapsed the economy. It gave rise to Putin, whom I’m sure you will agree isn’t letting go of the controls of the Russian state, no matter how many new Presidents get elected.
I was alive to watch it happen. It wasn’t even 20 years ago. The effects are still being felt today. And you want to tell me that I “have no historical understanding”? No buddy, that would be you…
Check it out: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/russianinfl.htm
And yet you still defend the massive spending of our government? You try to believe that it can’t happen here? That there will never be an American dictator? Take the bag off of your head and have a look around, it’s happening here, right now!
Right now we’ve got a very small, very select group of liberal socialists, just like those in Russia, China, and Germany who killed millions of people, writing laws behind locked doors that the majority of Americans don’t get to read, don’t approve of, and are going to be the reason we vote the Democrats who pass them out of office later this year, and yet you are happy about our slide into oligarchy, into the very thing the Founders were trying to get rid of when they revolted against England? That’s insanity.
This is what the Tea Parties are protesting. These are people who actually paid attention in history class, who actually read books on economics, who are paying attention to the world around them, and you attack them…
These are average Americans, voicing their opinions, trying to peacefully slow or stop the out of control government spending which has destroyed many, many other countries, and you attack them. Do you pride yourself on being an extremely closed minded liberal? You want to join Nancy Pelosi in calling these individuals Nazis, even though they don’t vote Progressive in the elections like any good National Socialist would? That’s insane.
We’ve got good people, average, honest folks who simply want to be allowed to work and live their lives with no ruler placing his jackboot on their throats, and you insult them and cast ridicule on their honor for their desire for freedom from a tyrannical state… No wonder your party is heading to the trash bin of history.
Seriously, if anyone’s ideas here are toxic, they’re yours, and those of your fellow liberals. Your Democrats representatives in DC are either retarded or purposefully trying to destroy this country and yet you proudly fall into formation and are going to cheerfully follow them right over the edges of a cliff.
If you had even the one brain cell I so graciously assumed you were in command of, you’d be out there with the Tea Party folks trying your damnedest to apply the brakes as well.
Slow down, there, Red Ryder, you’ll overheat and take a stroke. If the above load of feverishly delivered codswallop were audio instead of written, we’d all have your spittle on our faces. The incoherence of your syntax makes the incoherence of your . . . well, let’s be generous and call them arguments . . . uh, incoherent.
So much is either factually and historically wrong, self-contradictory, logically inconsistent, or oxymoronic (never mind plain moronic) that it is not worth taken the time to set you straight on everything. Others might benefit from it, but you clearly would not.
I’ll just take three things at random. One is sloppy and imprecise use of language. You refer to “liberal socialists.” Is there any such thing as a non-liberal socialist? I don’t thin so; very rare bird if there is. This is important. Orwell (a socialist, of course) said that bad language makes bad politics. And he hadn’t even met you.
(2) Nazis/ National Socialists. You persist, here as elsewhere, in calling them liberals, perhaps deluded by the word “Socialist” in the formal title National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Get this straight, if nothing else: The Nazis were NOT liberals. You may think it buttresses your . . . uh . . . arguments by seeing a link between the “Socialist” in National Socialism and the socialism you equate with American liberalism, but honest to God, it is plain factually wrong. The Nazis were one of several far-right parties in Weimar Germany. You could look it up almost anywhere: Richard J. Evans’s recent, magnificent three-volume history of Nazi Germany will give you chapter and verse. I don’t care if you want to think of American liberals as socialists or communists or slave traders or bunko artists or any combination thereof — it doesn’t matter, your entire diatribe is a dog’s breakfast of imbecilities — but please get this one gah dam historical fact right.
(3) Common cultural touchstones; things that are common to our cultural literacy. I did not say your ideas are toxic (thought they are). What I said was, “If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, you would be positively toxic.” I was referring, of course, to the fairly well-known line from “An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.” Just in case — and it probably IS the case — you needs this “translated,” it means, roughly, that possessing only a little bit of knowledge can lead people to to think they are more expert than they actually are.
Wait: Here’s a Lucky Strike Extra: In a previous entry you asked if I could “yodle.” I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but, no, I cannot, but if I could, I would “yodel.”