Tea Bagging

The tea bag protests have been in the news an awful lot lately. While they are promoted by the right wing radio personalities and the like, I agree with what they are protesting.

This article gets it right. It's not about current tax increases. It's about insanely out of control government spending that will lead to them stealing more and more of your hard earned money in future years.

Luckily for the government the masses have too short of a memory to truly get pissed in greater numbers. Because the public seems to focus on nothing more than the most current dollar number being talked about by the media. When in fact they should get out their calculators and add up all the crazy bail-out spending that has taken place in the past year.

The protesters could also make a better stand if they openly focused their outrage against all government spending that started when "Bush agreed on a fiscal stimulus package of $170 billion in tax rebates and incentives. It picked up speed in the fall, when the Treasury spent $85 billion to take over insurance giant AIG and Congress approved $700 billion to rescue failing financial institutions." And continues to get even worse with Obama.

This excerpt sums it up well:
"Everything the federal government is doing will be forcibly extracted from our future earnings. The tea party protesters see that and are angry. Can the rest of the country be far behind?"