Nationwide protests against Barack Obama and taxes.
Teabaggers held protests all over the country on April 15th, 2009. Of course the very things they are protesting against were all well in play before Obama even won the election last November. Obama’s budget and deficit includes in expenses the cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is no longer an off the books adjustment with emergency funding every two months. The budget also discounts revenues from the Alternative Minimum Tax – Congress made adjustments to the amount that will be collected and Obama (For shame! The horror! That traitor!) did not count as revenue the amount of AMT that would not be collected.
I am not defending the decision of AIG to pay retention bonuses to the very people who propped up their products with toothpicks, I think those people should not be retained. They probably should be prosecuted, but there was technically nothing illegal in what they did since they were working in the unregulated sliver of credit default swaps. But this is not directly about that. This is about the right wingers and the no government oversight no matter what the cost groups who want to place all of the blame on an administration that has been in office less than a year. And for that reason, I will gladly call the protesters teabaggers.
If you want to read more about the protests in Flagstaff the story and comments are online at the Arizona Daily Sun while Fox News is blasted for their own slip of the tongue over their protest against the use of the term teabagging.
But you know the anti-government people are probably right. There are too many laws governing how clean our water should be, whether we even have water, too much interference in the way of roads, sidewalks, reliable electricity police and fire protection. How about we do away with all of it and go back to having to grow our own food washing clothes once a month in the manual ringer? You know when you are so busy just trying to survive you don’t have time to criticize the government that isn’t there. Now that the government has provided roads, running water, sewage and trash service, law enforcement and property rights you have time to complain. Yes, the first amendment even protects stupid speech. Would you really want it any other way?
