Tea party's standard call is for responsibility
Kendall Svengalis North Stonington
Publication: The Day
Rants against tea party members based on grievances against the Bush administration are inaccurate and irrelevant to the present political environment.
Tea party members are Republicans, but also independents and Democrats outraged with the leftward and fiscally irresponsible thrust of the Obama administration.
Tea partiers are outraged by out-of-control spending and deficits that dwarf the already unacceptable Bush-era budgets, and which mortgage the future of our children and grandchildren.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke projected that by 2020 interest on the projected $20 trillion national debt will consume $1 trillion per year, virtually all income-tax revenues. The Congressional Budget Office calculated in 2004 that federal taxes must double by 2050 and increase by 150 percent by 2080 to pay existing entitlement programs.
To this, we have added a reckless and unconstitutional health insurance entitlement. And, Congress and the president enacted an $800 billion "stimulus" program that created virtually no private-sector job growth and has not reduced current or long-term unemployment.
Tea partiers have a single standard that transcends our country's unfortunate preoccupation with party label over principle. Our principles are fiscal responsibility, limited government and free markets, which are threatened like never before.
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Tea party's standard call is for responsibility
Rants against tea party members based on grievances against the Bush administration are inaccurate and irrelevant to the present political environment.
Tea party members are Republicans, but ...
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