Suburban Chic and Teabagging the Teabaggers
By Michael Boyajian
When we first moved from Brooklyn to our new home in the Hudson River Valley the first thing we noticed was that our neighbors had reflector rods planted on their front lawns where they border the road. The thinking was that this would keep cars from parking on the lawn because there was no sidewalk.
We scoffed at the idea and went without the reflectors until the edge of our lawn turned into a muddy tire rutted smudge. Then we put up the reflectors and within a few months the problem cleared up and the grass returned.
You might ask what does this all mean. Well in the context of the Teabaggers it might mean something. Though we may dislike them, some of their ideas might be on the right track and worth adopting as our own. It might be a good idea to balance the budget and control spending. This is what the Clinton Administration did and we had great prosperity.
On the other hand with taxes the Teabaggers are way off the mark. The idea is to raise taxes on the wealthy not your average American. The typical Teabagger will be unaffected by any future tax increases. The rich will be and it will not have an adverse effect on the economy. You see since the 1980s the rich have gotten richer and the poor poorer. Trickle down economics is not a reality. We did better under the Clinton Administration’s higher tax levels than we did under the Bush Administration’s lower tax levels.
Keep in mind I and many others wouldn’t mind paying a few more dollars in taxes to have cradle to grave healthcare for ourselves and our children. Young people don’t need healthcare but their children do and wouldn’t it be great if the elderly were well taken care of in their golden years. After all we are all going to age soon or later.
Now the Teabaggers are not the innocents portrayed by the media. Many of them are cold calculating political operators with racist tendancies who want to manipulate gullible people, force the Republican Party to the hard right and to destroy all progressive ideas for purely ideological reasons.
So the moral of the story is this, consider what your neighbor is doing. Though you might disagree with them most of the time there might be some ideas you can adopt as your own. There may be some gold in the often wacky agenda of the Teabagger world and that is good for you and the nation as a whole and to adopt some Teabag ideas just might flatten their movement.
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