Conservatives Love Tea Bagging.

My oh my do the conservatives (all 5 of them) have their underwear in a bunch and they are looking to relieve that bunch through some good old fashioned tea bagging. They are staging these "tea parties" to protest rising tax rates and government spending. They are sending tea bags to members of Congress and the White House. These cheap skates will always whine about paying their fair share of taxes even though most of these "tea baggers" probably don't realize that their taxes won't go up but be reduced under Obama:

But everything that critics mock about these parties has long been standard practice within the Republican Party.

Thus, President Obama is being called a “socialist” who seeks to destroy capitalism. Why? Because he wants to raise the tax rate on the highest-income Americans back to, um, about 10 percentage points less than it was for most of the Reagan administration. Bizarre.

TPJ: The rich have manipulated the less affluent classes for years--they tell people who don't research these things much that their taxes are going up. Well, that's all some of these folks need to hear and off they go protesting taxes that won't be raised on them but on the ones telling them these lies. Folks like the FOX News crowd who all make millions. Yeah, the fat cats are right about one thing- their tax rates will go up. Yet even with that hike the rate will still be below the Reagan tax rate.

The protest against the government spending part is especially suicidal. To put a freeze on nearly all government spending, which is the big idea from these "tea baggers" (more on that phrase later) would ensure a steeper and longer-lasting down-ward spiral.

As it is we are seeing some signs that the bailout packages are working--big banks are starting to pull out of this hole and getting them stabilized and moving again will jump start the rest of the economy. Goldman Sachs is already in position and is looking to pay back the money loaned to them by tax payers. Wells Fargo posted better than expected earnings and Citigoup shares surged ahead of a earnings report to be released this week. In the rest of the country stimulus money is putting people back to work building new bridges, energy grids, repairing roads and on and on.

That is what people fail to realize--that the banks represent the levers that start the gears moving again. They are the ones holding all these bad loans from when the housing bubble burst, which is where much of this downturn started. So how do you fix a problem if you don't address the sector in which the problem started? Thus, why the bailout is necessary--we don't have much choice because a government spending freeze is exactly what Herbert Hoover did right before the Great Depression. It was a bad idea then and is a bad idea now.

In addition, economists on the right and the left support this Obama plan, which is already starting to show some glimmers of recovery. They agree that the last thing you should do in a deep recession is cut back on spending. This is a point Obama reiterated today along with saying he understands that we would cut back as families during this time as well as businesses. He goes on further to make it clearer to us:

However, if ever person and every business cut back then no one is spending any money, which means that there are no customers, which means there are more layoffs, which means that the economy gets even worse. That's why the government has to temporarily step in and boost government spending in order to stimulate demand.

TPJ: Thus the government becomes and is currently the investor and spender of last resort. The government is doing its job as spender of last resort to keep the economy from completely freezing over until the private sector can get back on its feet.

Now, on to the phrase, "tea bagging" that conservatives are throwing around saying they are going to "tea bag" the White House and Congress. Well, if these often socially close-minded people where more with the times they'd know that "tea bagging" is a sexual act in pop culture, which is ironically common in homosexual men!! I call it ironic because conservatives are so anti-gay and yet here they are refering to a common gay male sex act!! Teehee. I'll let you read what it exactly means for yourself--I'm not going to write it out word for word here in this post.

Check out this clip from, "The Rachel Maddow Show" about this tea bagging mayhem!! And for the rest of America all this tea bagging is leaving a bad taste in our mouths. Hehe...I couldn't resist. That said, by all means get out there and tea bag away!! I'm all for the right to assemble, demonstrate and free speech so get out there and tea bag your friends, neighbors, co-workers and even total strangers!! (wink). By the way, the tea parties are nothing like the original, which was protesting taxation without representation. These clowns have representation at all levels of government:

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