my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

And this way of thinking among many people is exactly why 'they' can continue enriching themselves.

They enrich themselves because we buy their stuff.

Probably most 'tea-party voters' would if you give them choices between simple things without telling them who's opinion this is, relate much more with a left wing democrat ideology but they are imprinted to hate anything that is left wing. People are not rational. And that is what the filthy rich class uses to keep things going their way.

Uh,huh. Money and the desire of it is evil, and greedy. Those filthy, dirty, stinking... People are not rational.

And don't forget, those top 1% you are talking about got the chance of becoming so rich because the way the society is build up favors them.

You mean like Warren Buffet, or Bill Gates. Yes, WE put them at the top of the Forbes 500.

Say, you sell arms, and your friends in politics invade a few countries that benefits you tremendously. OF course going to war just to support oil and arms industry luckily never happens....

I'm sure you mean this euphemistically. My friends don't sell arms, or invade countries or benefit me tremendously. Aye, no blood for opium either.

Anyhow...is it strange that you would be asked to support your fellow American citizen that can't support himself a bit? For example because he was send out to fight in Iraq because that was more or less the only choice he had, he became handicapped and when back he was left to arrange things all by himself which isn't easy because handicapped people are not really good employees is what they say?? (or at least think).

I don't have a problem with helping people in need. I have a problem with using the force of government to take money away from people to give it away arbitrarily to voting constituencies.

Of course it is a choice you make, and a choice I can respect....but what I don't respect is all the sweet talking around it to explain why some people deserve to have bad healthcare just because they were unlucky.

When it comes down to it... We cannot afford to give everyone all the healthcare they need. Death wins in the end. Most of the expense of our health care is tied up in care at the end of life. If everyone pays in pennies, and extracts dollars the system goes bankrupt. Well, that's the way of it. Politicians try to sell you the soft soap, that there is another way where everybody gets what they want. But, it's a ponzi scheme... One that may play out for decades before the economic system meets it's end. Eventually, like Greece, the piper must be paid.