There is an answer

Patrick Lowry recently suggested, in an editorial titled, "Restoring Confidence," "Is the tea party craze actually a populist movement? Or is it a cleverly orchestrated and well-funded plan to swing the balance of power away from existing governmental structures and back to corporate interests weary of regulations that impede profit-seeking?" (Notice how HDN couldn't even bring themselves to capitalize "tea party.")

The media had been portraying the Tea Party as violent racists who hate children and kick puppies, or was it hated puppies and kicked children? Whichever, I suppose it's an improvement to now be labeled as corporate shills even though major corporations would prefer liberals who are easily persuaded to institute regulations that eliminate competitors and creating onerous laws that benefit corporations by demanding the public to buy their products- health care, wind farm electricity, U.S. manufactured medicine, etc. Large corporations certainly don't mind a government that bails them out financially, approve wells that blow up and readily accepts campaign contributions. The corporate puppet masters have as much desire for the Tea Party as the existing government has.

Lowry mentioned that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin self-serving opportunistic behavior was easily transparent. Maybe it's a coincidence, but in a recent poll among liberals Beck and Palin were voted as the top two Americans that liberals hate the most, (Tea Party members came in seventh). Using their common-sense abilities, they scare the left to death.

Neither has taken money from anyone that doesn't willingly give it to them unlike politicians who use forcibly extracted money for luxurious vacations, parties for donors and other personal gains. After Obama's term has ended Beck and Palin's earnings will pale in comparison to the Obama's when they join the lecture circuit to collect millions from despondent disciples giving speeches how George Bush caused his failed presidency. Lowry's idols aren't just transparent they are in your face obvious.

Lowry wrote that, "It's the system that needs overhauling, not the individuals." The system is individuals. Individuals in a perpetual state of re-election. Individuals who have determined they are the ruling class. Individuals that would sink their children's yachts to remain in the upper circle.

Individuals who use every means they have regardless of how much foreign money it takes and how many generations of Americans it takes to pay it back. Bacon earmarks, permanent unemployment, mortgage subsidies and entitlements are all designed for votes. Obamacare was originally designed for votes from appreciative union leaders to bail out unfunded union health care pensions, the recovery bill is a slush fund for votes. All bailouts were designed for votes and political contribution kickbacks. All of these bills were voted for by self-serving opportunistic ruling class individuals who expect to remain in their elitist positions until the Grim Reaper drags them out of their congressional seats, kicking and screaming, to where they truly belong. And Lowry thinks we should keep them so they have the chance to restore public confidence?

Politicians are like milk. When it's around too long it gets rancid. Methods for financial gain by politicians can't be eliminated nor can their ability to use their office for re-election. Term limits are the answer. But, a ruling class will never, ever vote for term limits.

This is why our constitutional way of government can never be restored until the ruling class individuals are replaced -- one by one until term limits are finally instituted.

The left's ludicrous criticism and hatred will never subside for the Tea Party, but it's simply a gesture to restore honesty, common sense, fiscal responsibility and our Constitution to all levels of government -- governments we could be confident of. It would seem the Tea Party would be agreeable to all flag waving Americans, but it's certainly disagreeable to the ruling class and their socialist media who started lambasting the Tea Party before they even printed up their first T-shirt.

F.W. Campbell

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