The Tea Party Movement: A Mass of Contradictions & Me The People...
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What the Tea Party Movement Wants: A Mass of Contradictions & Me The People
What the Tea Party Movement Wants
To the Editor:
The Tea Party movement want a strong military, but don’t want to finance it; they don’t like social programs like Medicare, but readily accept their Medicare benefits; they don’t like the federal bailout of our financial markets, but would be angry if the government did nothing and their investments and retirements went down the drain; they want strong border controls, but again don’t want to pay for it.They are a mass of contradictions. John Georgiton, Columbus, Ohio, Feb., 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
the Tea Party movement’s approach of “small government” is what got us into this financial mess in the first place, and I shudder to think what might happen if we had no government regulation of big business and finance.
Often saying one is against big government is really an indirect way of saying one is in the pocket of big business and finance. Randall Roark Miami, Feb. 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
The Tea Party leaders want “strict adherence to the Constitution.” But since the Tea Party members distrust government, do they really understand and approve of what the Constitution actually states: Congress shall have power to provide for the “general welfare of the United States”? And further, “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers” (Article 1, Section 8)?
The Tea Party seems confused — lauding the Constitution, which gives broad power to Congress, on the one hand, and fearing a properly activist government as a threat on the other hand. The Tea Party leaders and followers may wish to emphasize personal freedom, but they have the “socialism” (government providing for its people) of the Constitution to contend with. Robbins Winslow Naples, Fla., Feb. 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
They wear T-shirts with “We the People” slogans and pictures of the American flag and bald eagle, but they do not represent me. In fact, I don’t know who the so-called Tea Party activists stand for besides themselves. I have observed that many of them are people who have gotten where they are through the good schools and other government infrastructure their parents and grandparents built for them. Perhaps they mean “Me the People.”
Many are senior citizens who think nothing of taking their Winnebagos to our national parks and enjoying some of the crown jewels of this nation, but then squawking about helping build a better society for the next generations. Shame on them!
I am a military veteran who has spent more than 35 years in public service. I have no problem paying more for the society that I live in, and no problem helping pay for a bigger and better society for our grandkids. This is no longer a country of prairie schooners. Richard Dickinson Glendale, Calif., Feb. 16, 2010
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The marriage of the Tea Party movement with the militia groups’ call to arms is scary.
Anger is energizing. The all-consuming rumor mill, much of which still perpetuates outrageously paranoid content not based in reality, generates comradeship and self-righteous indignation. Sadly, it will likely take some acts of horrific violence to bring these ordinary citizens back to their senses. Anne-Marie Hislop Chicago, Feb. 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
Is it too much to hope for? That all the Tea Party people, in anger, will burn their Medicare and Social Security cards, to rid themselves of government intervention, and that the resulting influx in funds will go to finance such benefits for all the rest of us?
Ellen Stein
Closter, N.J.,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/opinion/l18tea.html?scp=1&sq=john%20georgiton&st=cse#
What the Tea Party Movement Wants: A Mass of Contradictions & Me The People
What the Tea Party Movement Wants
To the Editor:
The Tea Party movement want a strong military, but don’t want to finance it; they don’t like social programs like Medicare, but readily accept their Medicare benefits; they don’t like the federal bailout of our financial markets, but would be angry if the government did nothing and their investments and retirements went down the drain; they want strong border controls, but again don’t want to pay for it.They are a mass of contradictions. John Georgiton, Columbus, Ohio, Feb., 16, 2010
•========================= =============
To the Editor:
the Tea Party movement’s approach of “small government” is what got us into this financial mess in the first place, and I shudder to think what might happen if we had no government regulation of big business and finance.
Often saying one is against big government is really an indirect way of saying one is in the pocket of big business and finance. Randall Roark Miami, Feb. 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
The Tea Party leaders want “strict adherence to the Constitution.” But since the Tea Party members distrust government, do they really understand and approve of what the Constitution actually states: Congress shall have power to provide for the “general welfare of the United States”? And further, “to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers” (Article 1, Section 8)?
The Tea Party seems confused — lauding the Constitution, which gives broad power to Congress, on the one hand, and fearing a properly activist government as a threat on the other hand. The Tea Party leaders and followers may wish to emphasize personal freedom, but they have the “socialism” (government providing for its people) of the Constitution to contend with. Robbins Winslow Naples, Fla., Feb. 16, 2010
•========================= =====================
To the Editor:
They wear T-shirts with “We the People” slogans and pictures of the American flag and bald eagle, but they do not represent me. In fact, I don’t know who the so-called Tea Party activists stand for besides themselves. I have observed that many of them are people who have gotten where they are through the good schools and other government infrastructure their parents and grandparents built for them. Perhaps they mean “Me the People.”
Many are senior citizens who think nothing of taking their Winnebagos to our national parks and enjoying some of the crown jewels of this nation, but then squawking about helping build a better society for the next generations. Shame on them!
I am a military veteran who has spent more than 35 years in public service. I have no problem paying more for the society that I live in, and no problem helping pay for a bigger and better society for our grandkids. This is no longer a country of prairie schooners. Richard Dickinson Glendale, Calif., Feb. 16, 2010
•=================================================== To the Editor:
The marriage of the Tea Party movement with the militia groups’ call to arms is scary.
Anger is energizing. The all-consuming rumor mill, much of which still perpetuates outrageously paranoid content not based in reality, generates comradeship and self-righteous indignation. Sadly, it will likely take some acts of horrific violence to bring these ordinary citizens back to their senses. Anne-Marie Hislop Chicago, Feb. 16, 2010
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To the Editor:
Is it too much to hope for? That all the Tea Party people, in anger, will burn their Medicare and Social Security cards, to rid themselves of government intervention, and that the resulting influx in funds will go to finance such benefits for all the rest of us?
Ellen Stein
Closter, N.J.,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/opinion/l18tea.html?scp=1&sq=john%20georgiton&st=cse#
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