Sure, as you all know, I love to poke fun at the tea baggers. They are crazy, no doubt. They are no more against Big Government than they are against oxygen. They're simply against other people besides themselves benefiting from government (especially when Democrats are in charge). Yet, for all the fun I poke at them, their delusion is actually common among the public as a whole and not just their fringe GOP group.
Here's the overall theme facing government as viewed by the opposition to the current administration and why it boggles any rational thinking:
"LINDSTROM, Minn. — Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.
He says that too many Americans lean on taxpayers rather than living within their means. He supports politicians who promise to cut government spending. In 2010, he printed T-shirts for the Tea Party campaign of a neighbor, Chip Cravaack, who ousted this region’s long-serving Democratic congressman.
Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice."
Huh?Anyone decades from now wanting to look back and see the unimaginative and very unrealistic view of the role of government and how this Congress is the most unpopular and most unproductive in history, this story should suffice. It's really a wonder we've survived as a people this long.
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