At Sea Hapless Tea Party Lunatics and Whackjobs

I witnessed the Tea Party rally in downtown Colorado Springs at Acadia Park. There was about 1000 people in the park, but many of them were students on lunch break from Palmer HS across the street, plus the regular assorted collection of townies, downtown workers, hobos, and young people from CC up the street. Lots of blather and hyperbole. The politicians speaking on the stage were not the only hucksters trying to hustle money and votes from the unenlightened mass, as several impromptu sales stands were around vending Confederate flags, stickers, buttons, and other related paraphernalia. The supporters of full grass legalization were out in full mass as well, and one could see smoking going on in the crowd, not necessarily entirely tobacco. It was a decent enough day for a rally, and the hapless media types from tv, radio, and print had their simpleton lackeys out trying to make a story out of nothing. Too bad the rain did not come three hours earlier -- that was the real story of the day, with the first real measurable rainfall (not snowfall) since at least early last autumn, about seven months ago.

All in all, a gathering of nitwits who can only complain, bellow, and whine. I have yet to hear any solutions whatsoever from these varmints: only rabble-rousing and vociferous spitting of mindless prattle. The federal and state budgets are quite clear. Either taxes need to be raised or the big programs cut. The programs that will have to get cut will have to be those for seniors like Social Security and Medicare. Medicaid and Defense are the only other real options. Given the demographic make-up of this Tea Party gathering here and likely elsewhere across the nation on THR (there were so many old balding grey haired coots along with wild-eyed middle aged zealots looking for a purpose in their lives), none of these alternatives for cuts are realistic and are minimally able to get done politically. Tax increases are just likely out, even though there is some feasibility for enactment of new taxes such as VAT, FAIR Tax, and income tax boosts. Most people cannot pay anymore with the way things are going. The wealthy elite can ante up more, but most of them do not have much more to give besides those in the ten figure and greater income bracket like sports owners, players, actors, entertainers, corporate executives and officers, and rap musicians. Those folks could give plenty more, but there really is not enough of them to make a significant dent in the area of revenue shortfall.
What has to happen is for a massive reform of the tax code. Fortune 5000 corporations need to mandated to actually pay federal income taxes instead of lobbying the system so they can work it to their advantage and shirk their duties. An indexed and progressive federal tax on corporate revenues also needs to be enacted to encourage corporations to have a minimal market share, maximize competition, open up markets for more to enter into, split apart, avoid mergers, get rid of their inner bloody pork for their VIPs, and be proper responsible legal citizens of this nation, since they are now people according to the law of the land recently ordered by our wonderful US Supreme Court.
Fat chance that will happen - even though the answer to most problems can be found in history. Back to the 50s would work, but it is politically impossible.
The unfortunate destiny of the nation is that it will go broke, declare bankruptcy or insolvency, significantly devalue the currency, and drive many more middle class and the poor into lives marked with greater hopelessness, stress, and despair. The USA is well on to the path of being a failed state, and it is only a matter of time before it eventuates and dissolves into a number of new nations.

And all the yabbering and whining by unenlightened twits who cannot see the forest for the trees is not going to stop it. The best of the ride is over: try to enjoy the downslide. It will be bad, but there are a few things to be grateful for. One just has to figure out what those are for each of us. A clue: basic, unadulterated simplicity.

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