American Socialism for the Rich

I wrote this as a response on another blog to all those who are accusing Tea Party folks of getting suckered into working for Corporate America:

This is something that has come up a few times, that Corporate America is cheering the Tea Parties because they want folks fighting for lower taxes on Big Business and less regulation.  As a legitimate card-carrying TeaBagger, meaning I was involved in the Ron Paul campaign during the 2008 Primary elections and helped organize this year’s April 15 event and was pissed off to see Take Back Vermont signs there, I can tell you that I do not work for the benefit of Corporate America and in fact the original intention behind the Tea Parties is the opposite of what big business would want.  

Let’s consider for a moment something simple, the fact that lobbyists don’t even bother talking to Ron Paul any more because he is unbribeable.  While all your precious Democratic congressmen and women (and of course the other Republicans too) take bribes left and right to pass legislation to favor one business over another, Dr. Paul works to maintain a ‘free market,’ something we have not had in this country for a long long time.

Let’s go further now… Monetary Policy.  All us original VT Teabagging Teabaggers are the ones who hounded Peter Welch to sign HR1207 entitled ‘The Federal Reserve Transparancy Act.’  Ron Paul introduced this a couple months ago and it now has 245 co-sponsors while it waits to be reviewed in the House Finance Committee.  Peter Welch co-sponsored a bill introduced by a Republican because it seems to make sense that the Federal Reserve, which currently is immune from a real audit, should be audited, that congress should be able to see how much money they’re printing behind closed doors, which foreign countries and banks they’re doing favors for, how much of our debt they are liquidating by simply inflating/destroying our currency.  In fact, our own Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders wrote and introduced the sister bill in the Senate entitled the Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009, which has 3 co-sponsors, all of whom are Republican!  OMG!!!

As long as GM, Phizer, Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, etc. have congress in their back pockets and a nontransparent Fed then tax brackets are inconsequential, because they can get easy credit during the booms and bailouts during the busts.  HR1207 will severly impair that because it goes to the heart of the matter.

Those of you who ask why no one Teabagged during the Bush years pose a reasonable question, my answer is twofold: that there was not the catalyst of an enormous financial collapse to wake people up to monetary issues, and that Ron Paul had not made his Presidential Bid.  I waited for three hours in the rain in Ohio in 2004 to vote for Kerry because of a concern for the middle and lower classes, but that was before I understood anything about Free Market Austrian Economics.  A big government can create more social programs and give out more money everyday, but it won’t come close to supporting the little guy as much as Sound Money does, when a private bank (the Fed) doesn’t have exclusive access to the printing press and congress oversees the money supply (or gold can too).  Foreign wars without a declaration from congress target the little guys too, as they tend to enlist before wealthy kids do.  Luckily we have people like Dr. Paul who have always voted against all these undeclared wars, can’t say the same about our current President.