November 7, 2010
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NOW YOU GET ANGRY
To the tea party people…. . .”Another side of the story . . . . “
After The 8 Years Of The Bush/Cheney Disaster,…
Now You Get Mad?
You didn’t get mad
when the Supreme Court stopped a legal
recount and appointed a President.You didn’t get mad
when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate Energy policy and push us to invade Iraq.You didn’t get mad
when a covert CIA operative got outed.You didn’t get mad
when the Patriot Act got passed.You didn’t get mad
when we illegally invaded a country
that posed no threat to us.You didn’t get mad
when we spent over 800 billion (and counting) on said illegal war.You didn’t get mad
when Bush borrowed more money from foreign sources than the previous 42 Presidents combined.You didn’t get mad
when over 10 billion dollars in cash just disappeared in Iraq.You didn’t get mad
when you found out we were torturing people.You didn’t get mad
when Bush embraced trade and outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American jobs out of the country.You didn’t get mad
when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.You didn’t get mad
when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.You didn’t get mad
when Bush rang up 10 trillion dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.You didn’t get mad
when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.You didn’t get mad
when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.You didn’t get mad
when we gave people who had more money
than they could spend, the filthy rich, over a trillion dollars in tax breaks.You didn’t get mad
with the worst 8 years of job creations in several decades.You didn’t get mad
when over 200,000 US Citizens lost their lives because they had no health insurance.You didn’t get mad
when lack of oversight and regulations
from the Bush Administration caused US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments, retirement, and home values.You finally got mad
when a black man was elected President and decided that people
in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.You are mad that the total budget is so high, yet you don’t get mad that the Defense Budget is way out of proportion to other countries or our other discretionary spendings.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since 1929 are all okay with you, but helping fellow Americans who are sick…
When I see that you are exercising critical analysis and displaying empathy towards others, especially the vulnerables, then, and only then, will I respect what you say and how you feel.
Comments (35)
Nobody’s ever said it better.
@twoberry - Thanks. I just received this from another source and I had to post it.
I enjoyed your post…but if you don’t mind me saying, the gorgeous background made the text rather hard to read? Maybe a large font?
David, I wish I could recommend this post a hundred times. Wonderful post.
I agree with the above reader. I had to move the cursor and the post to a spot where I could read the words clearly. Is it possible to change the background?
@galadrial -
@ZSA_MD -
A little trick if you’re on a PC. While holding down your CTRL key you can use your mousewheel to zoom in and out, making the font bigger or smaller. That’s what I did here to make it easier to read. If you’re on a Mac I’m guessing there is also a way. Maybe the Command key? I don’t know. Also when I change the fonts size at a site in this manner it stays that way when I return.
This was well put together. You know, Rupert Murdoch bought the NY Post and turned it into little more than a supermarket tabloid you can’t give away. He’s done about the same with FOX except a lot of people seem to buy into that.
I like your cat thing.
@galadrial - I agree. I had someone else do the site and I have already asked her to change it so that it can be more easily read. Thanks for the tip though in case I hadn’t already noticed. Hopefully she can change it tomorrow.
@TheSutraDude - When Bush illegally invaded Iraq and murdered over 100,000 innocent men, women and children, I did a root cause analysis of why our society let him get away with it. I determined that our society is lacking in four things: critical analysis, empathy, ethics/justice, and conflict management. And society’s lack of those four issues is so prevalent today that it is scary. Very scary.
Thanks for the note.
@curiousdwk -
It is indeed scary. That so many Americans accepted and even argued that torture was justified in spite of even the fact that it is an ineffective and inefficient interrogation method, that so many felt fine throwing out the Geneva Convention without considering even the selfish ramifications of doing so shows a total lack of ability to think critically, not to mention an inhumanity that spits in the face of what this nation was supposed to stand for. That tea party politicians trash the media and refuse to answer press questions as if it’s beneath them to do so.
@TheSutraDude - The Tea Party is also completely devoid of empathy and compassion. They are only out for their own kind. They are not concerned about the vulnerables in our society. (By the way, I define empathy as really understanding what and why a person thinks and feels the way(s) that they do.) With their insistence on throwing out the new health provisions they are showing that they have good coverage and don’t care if so many others don’t have good coverage. They are afraid if everyone gets coverage that their coverage will be less than it is. So they are ego-centric and only thinking of their own good and the good of others like them.
I totally agree and again there are facts that one would think would convince them to want universal healthcare even if they don’t care about a member of their own immediate families. Those facts pertain to the out of control healthcare costs we have become accustomed to being replaced by increasingly lower costs and more certainty in coverage guarantees. The disinformation campaign that was launched was massive, supported by corporate health insurance and pharmaceuticals, politicians who stated their agenda to do anything that will cause Obama to fail, and FOX. Several months ago Palin had a slip of the tongue and said in a television interview she used to “sneak across the border” into Canada to for doctor visits and she received good care there.
Unregulated capitalism is predatory by nature. It’s the economic law of the jungle. The societal problems it creates are huge as we see and inevitably self-destructing as we’ve also gotten a dose of.
@TheSutraDude - Dude, you just got me to thinking about something. Seeing how the Tea Party wants to “go back to the days of the Founding Fathers” even though that was an agrarian society and not an industrial, or technological, or entertainment based society like we have now. At the time of the Founding Fathers, there was no such thing as business being part of the control mechanism of the government. It was set up as a tri-partite government with the judicial, legislative, and executive branches. Today, there is a fourth element that probably exerts more control and that is the business lobby. This is a rather recent phenomenon and so there is virtually no control or balance of power mechanism which includes businesses.
This problem was formed when the Supreme Court granted businesses the same “rights” as individuals.
I wonder how many Tea Partiers would be for eliminating all involvement by businesses? I might promote that part of the Tea Party platform if they were to say that one way to cut government control would be to eliminate business controls. This would help to restore it to be a government “for the People”.
That’s a good point. It would never happen though. The biggest energy moguls in the country, the Koch brothers are behind the so-called “grass roots” tea party. I don’t think most of them know this because the funding organizations set up by the Koch brothers are veiled behind patriotic sounding names.
One reason many tea partiers want to go back to those days is of their false belief that this was a Christian nation back then when in fact many of the founding fathers were Masons. The real tea party itself was planned out in a pub that served as a meeting place for Masons. Even Paul Revere was a mason.
@TheSutraDude - And many of the Founding Fathers that the Tea Partiers revere as being “Christian, god-fearing men” were really Deists – not Christians. Deists believed in a god which basically wound up the mechanism of the universe and then stepped back. The god of the Deists was not a personal god with anthropomorphic characterstics like being pleased, or being jealous, or communicating directly or even indirectly. The Tea Partiers deliberately re-write history to fit their model in order to fit their purpose.
@curiousdwk -
Thank you. Masons also accept into their membership people of various religions, including Sufis, Hindus, Jews, and also agnostics and atheists. The words “In God We Trust” were added to currency much later while the eye and pyramid was (I believe) one of the original symbols. At least it preceded the former.
The tea party people I know were bothered (I don’t know “angry” is the right term, then or now) about that, and more. It isn’t so much about President Obama as it is Congress (since spending starts in the House) to them. But, I only know a handful and they aren’t like anything I see portrayed in the media or bashed on the Web.
@PunkDiva - I would say that this describes Sarah Palin and not necessarily how she is presented in the extreme but in her own version of herself.
SIMPLY EXCELLENT, and my daughter is one of those sick without ins….
Great piece! I’m gonna steal it.
No, no! You misunderstand! They did get mad! They really, really did. They just didn’t have time to get motivated. Seriously. That’s what they told reporters who thought to ask.
@soobee72 - Thanks. And do you think that the folks who are so excited to get back to the government of the Founding Fathers will say that because we started out as a tripartite government, judicial, executive, and legislative, that they will be anxious to throw out the business lobby part of our current government because it wasn’t a part back then? I might even join them if they would insist on throwing out the business influences.
with the ‘reds’ and ‘blues’ being so evenly divided, it hardly seems like we’re an United States anymore
i feel so soured by all this i feel like starting a limeade party
@an_OM_aly - What we really need is a Green Tea Party – to soothe the troubled nerves and to quiet people down so they can pause and reflect rather than emotionally react. Reflection is getting to be a lost art nowadays. And it is what is most needed. I understand that Green Tea is supposed to be good to help a person quiet down and simply reflect. That’s what we need.
@LUNAPHIA - I’m sorry. What we need are people who can act from empathy for others rather than only what they feel is best for themselves.
@ZSA_MD - Thanks Zsa. I also had trouble reading it so I consulted with my assistant (a fellow-Xangan) who does my site for me. She has since changed it.
@TheLizarellaProject - Isn’t that cat thing fun? I love hitting the red ball and watching the cat chase after it.
@dingus6 - Please feel free to steal it. I think it’s a message that should get out.
may i copy this post and use it?
muah!
@LUNAPHIA - Of course you may. Especially since you asked so nicely.
Building a straw man and then knocking it down, is a very effective way to touch the heartstrings, but makes for a post that’s simply silly and meaningless except to demonize your fellow citizens, divert blame and pat each other on the back. (Oh, and divert attention from the issue at hand.)
I wish I saw this when you posted it. Bravo.
I think the total cost of the Iraq war is 3 trillion I read somewhere. Well said! Well said!
BTW, I have a folder that I keep great writings I have found on Xanga over the last couple of years. This is one that when my grandchildren read this, they will get an idea of how America was really like, not the watered down version they will put in History books. Credit given to you.
@hesacontradiction - You’re welcome to quote anything of mine. I do not believe in “intellectual property” where a person can “own” a thought, or an idea, or a feeling, or an expression. Ownership of “things” is one thing, but ownership of “expressions” is another thing. So feel free. Most anything I say is an amalgamation of many things I have heard or read so I would hate to say that I am the originator of anything I say or write.