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I haven’t paid much attention to the tea bagging phenomenon, where angry groups gather and like the revolutionaries in Boston Harbor centuries before, demand “No taxation without representation!”   It’s the same sad story of one group of Americans using and fooling another group of Americans into giving up what money they have left.

This time around, it’s so obviously obvious and stupidly stupid, that one can only feel sorry for the tea-bagging protesters.   Rich Americans have conned a bunch of poor and middle class Americans, taking advantage of the usual tactics of fear-ignorance-greed, into fighting for the protection of their Bush Era tax-cuts.

The tax cuts that were meant to be temporary, in order to help get the U.S. economy out of it’s last recession, but ended up wiping out a budget surplus and replacing it with an economy endangering budget deficit and $12 trillion debt.

The tea-baggers are defending a tax-cut, whereby they and essentially every other American took out a $36,000  loan on their country, that’s how much each American owes the holders of Treasury Bonds (the Chinese and Japanese are the largest purchasers of Treasury Bonds), and gave the money to the richest one percent of Americans.

In return, they put themselves and their children into debt, and are now protesting the Obama administration’s attempts to help them by letting the tax cuts on the rich expire and use some of the money to lower their taxes.   They are protesting against lowering their own taxes so the rich can get their money instead.   How stupid can you get?

I think I understand why the Tea-baggers don’t get it, they’re drinking the wrong kind of tea, they should be drinking Green Tea.   Every photo of tea-baggers I’ve seen, shows them holding bags of lipton or some other black tea, instead of green tea bags.

This is a mistake.   If they switch to green tea, they will quickly realize that they are simple pawns and puppets of Wall Street, being used as wage slaves to enrich the corporate class.   If they drank green tea, they would realize that they could achieve financial freedom, by living a green lifestyle.   They would be using Green Retirement instead of Wall Street Retirement.   Plus the anti-oxidants contained in green tea might help their brains function better and reduce their bouts of unspecified anger.

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