It's Time For Another Boston Tea Party
Please note: This is a reprint of an article I published two years ago about taxes, politics, and call to action. The article was originally published for the 4th of July, but in honor of "Tax Day" - April 15th, I thought I would share it with RedGagers.
The names of the culprits have changed over the past two years, but none of them were innocent, nor is the current administration or Congress, hence they are not exempted from being scorned and ridiculed.
Also note that this article was first published long before "Tea Party " became a cliche de jour, and really this article, and myself included, have little or nothing to do with the political entity known as the "Tea Party ", though occaisionally ideologies may appear to meld. I firmly assert that any similarities you may detect are in fact acts of plagiarism by the Tea Party. (-;
It's Time For Another Boston Tea Party
MrBill (1849) ranked 251 out of 39,613 in Politics -- 2 years ago
It's Time For Another Boston Tea Party
Being the 4th of July, I suggest we stage a new "Boston Tea Party "!
It has been 235 years since the original Boston Tea Party was thrown in protest of "taxation without representation" during King George's reign. For a 150 years Mother England had mostly mismanaged the colonies and the then current king George failed to listen to the tax complaints. So on July 4th of 1776 the Second Continental Congress passed and signed the colonist's "Declaration of Independence". King George and Mother England didn't take kindly to the petulance of the young country, but in trying to continue to exert control, ol' King George got his butt royally kicked!
Yet, 235 years after the original Boston Tea Party much of the populous still feels overly taxed, even though we are supposedly now "represented". A lot of the voters choose to vent their wrath by blaming Prez George II for their tax situation; however, many of these same folks were squawking about taxes under the previous regime of Prez Billy-Bubba. The problem is that most folks don't seem to understand who's to blame for their taxes. Forget the Prez, the president is just a figurehead, sort of like the Queen of England (but she does do a better job of waving!). Put the tax blame where it belongs - it's your Representatives and Senators that are screwing you!!!
Truthfully, it doesn't matter whether you vote for McCain or Obama in November if you keep voting for the same jerk Representatives and Senators that have been bending your sorry ass over their pork-barrels for decades! It's time to wake up America! Vote in some new members to the Congress and the Senate, some people who will be responsive to the needs of their constituents and truly "represent" us!!!
