1355 Pay to Party

I read this article the other day about a Tea Party convention in Kentucky. The speaker at the rally railed about cutting big government down and lowering taxes.
But the reporter noticed a lot of folks cheering in the audience were on those little motorized scooters. Turns out they’re pretty easy to get—from Medicare. It also turns out many of the folks may have been better off walking.
Some folks really need them to be sure. But there’s others who should take a hike.
Another example of government ineptitude and personal greed combining for excess spending. The cheerers were right. We do need to cut spending. But they probably wouldn’t want the spending cut on their scooters.
That seems to be the refrain. Cut my taxes, and cut spending, but make sure you cut spending on someone else.
Well maybe it’s time the Tea Party put its money where its mouth is. I read another statistic. Last year the Bureau of Public Debt received $3.1 Million in voluntary gifts from Americans wanting to help retire the 13.4 trillion dollar debt. Cool! Let’s follow their inspiration.
Tea Partiers unite! Let’s voluntarily give up our Social Security. And our Medicare. Those are just socialist things anyhow. And while we’re at it, let’s stop the two wars and cut the defense budget back to the size of the education budget. There’s another big chunk of big government spending right there.
Crazy, you say? Of course it is. Just like pretending solving our problems and cutting the budget is as easy as cutting crumpets at a tea party.
Still, I do like the idea of giving up Social Security on purpose.
But somehow I don’t think your average tea partier would embrace the term “voluntary submission”...
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