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2010-04-26 Home Front: Culture Wars
What the Tea Party Movement is Really About
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Posted by  2010-04-26 09:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 The endpoint of central planning, if not outright failure, is a much deeper and more intractable division of society into haves and have-nots. After promising a better world for everyone, the progressives will end up creating a society that is more polarized than ever.

Keep this firmly in mind, because you’ll see it first in stories that middle-income people are somehow having more and more trouble just affording the necessities of life. This is an unstoppable treadmill leading downward. There’s something very deeply wrong when ordinary necessities like food, shelter and healthcare need to be subsidized for millions of people. It means their own productivity isn’t adequate to provide for their needs. It means that economic progress is going backward. And it means that resources are being concentrated in fewer hands, rather than being spread more broadly. This is the crushing, bitter irony of Obama’s belief that we should “spread the wealth.”

And we’re already seeing everywhere, from David Brooks to Noam Chomsky, the signs of how the elites will have to deal with the polarization: by loudly proclaiming in their captive media that the have-nots are stupid and, eventually, evil.


Great article. States the problem perfectly.
Posted by WolfDog 2010-04-26 10:45||   2010-04-26 10:45|| Front Page Top

#2 TEA PARTY
Taxed Enough Already PARTY
Posted by tipper 2010-04-26 20:04||   2010-04-26 20:04|| Front Page Top

#3 TEA PARTY MOTTO

"I can see November from my house."
Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-26 20:18||   2010-04-26 20:18|| Front Page Top

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