If you aren't yet convinced, and need further evidence that the Tea-Baggers (as Bill Maher calls them) are inordinately "full of shit," take a look at Matt Taibbi's recent article in Rolling Stone, where he reports from a Palin Rally in Kentucky.
According to Taibbi, a remarkable number of those gathered to protest the out of control nature of the welfare state were resting their fat, atrophied backsides on motorized scooters paid for by Medicare, that crown jewel of our runaway welfare state.
Now, I know there are plenty of people who ride these things who have conditions more involved than their simply being too lazy to move on their own, who aren't merely disgustingly fat after years of coupling too much sitting with too much eating, and now, having reached the magical age of sixty-five, are having to lean on the taxpayer to buy them a machine to propel them through the grocery store, buffet lines ... and to the Palin Rallies, to protest out of control government spending.
I know it isn't necessarily that simple. And it's not for me to judge ...
And yet ... if ... in the United States of America, that beacon of freedom and self-reliance, one can't judge some lard ass at a Sarah Palin Show, on a scooter provided by the tax payers, well then who can one judge?
Tea Baggers, be careful whose advice you take. Because I get the feeling that choking big government isn't in the best interest of most of you.
That many of you have all the self-awareness of a twelve-year-old going on about killing his parents. It doesn't matter if Mom and Dad haven't made the best decisions through the years, if they haven't saved enough for your college, if your allowance isn't what you think it should be, your summer vacations not what they used to be ...
Dude, I got news for you: they might suck, but you'd be screwed without them.
You're not what Emerson had in mind.
Government is going to get bigger, not smaller, and you'll be among the many reasons why.
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