I understand what your interpretation of "we want our country back is, GfinS... The problem is that if you ask 100 Tea Baggers what it means you'll gat 50% who won't understand the question and of the remaining 50% you'll get 50 different answers... That is what we call moving the goal posts... No one on the left can debate 50 different answers...

Should the rich have the right to be rich... Of course they should but... 1. not by cheating as Wall Street has done and gotten away with and still continues to get away with and 2. the rich shoould also pay their sahre in taxes as it relates to how much wealth they have corrled for themselves...

Fact, GfinS: The tax rates on all individuals now in the US is lower than any industrialized country in the world and at a 30 year low...

Fact, GfinS: The upper 5% percent has corraled 80% of the cpountry's wealth yet pays only roughly 50% of the taxes... That means that 30% of the nation's wealth is exempted...

Fact, GfinS: Cutting taxes even more will contribute to the deficit unless Draconian cuts are made in spending...

Fact, GfinS: All the "earmarks" that the Repubs complain about (even though they get well over half of them) don't account for even 1% of the federal budget...

Fact, GfinS: There are people within the Republican Party who believe in the theory of "starve the beast" (like Bush almost did) as a strategy to kill off the New Deal...

Fact, GfinS: John Beohner is from Mars... Jus' kiddin'...

But, no, let's get real here... The debate right now that the needs to occur is how we get the country out of a 30 year downward spiril... We spend 17% of out GNP on health care yet are tryiong to compete with the rest of the industrialized world that averages 8% and with much better results... I mean, we don't rank in the top ten in life expectancy and we're now like 24th in infant mortality??? That won't get fixed with simplistic bumper-sticker Tea Party slogans... Our eductaional system is shot... We don't rank in the top 20 in math and science when there was a time we were 1st in both??? That won't get fixed with simplistic bumper-sticker Tea Party slogans...

You can go down the list of issues and seems as if one side thinks "we want our country back" or "cut taxes" is the answer to them all... Wrongo, Mary Lou... Ain't gonna happen... Might of fact, it is not onlly childish but terribly irresponsible to propagate such nonsense... These people who are exposing these as responsible policy options should not be in a positon of leadership... They should quit... This ain't no friggin' college football game here... This is our country slowly slippin' further down and the Tea Party and the Jogn Boenhers are rearranging the deck chairs and deciding what song to play next...

That, my dear, is irresonsible...

Seriouis business...

BTW, threatening to use 2nd ammendment remedies against people who one disagrees with is not only irresponsible but it is unAmerican, as well...

B~