Bruce Springsteen Forum

Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

- They’re right about our Debt being a bad thing.
- They are right about our Deficit being a bad thing.
- They are right about having a balanced budget.
- They’re even right about taxes (although that really wasn’t part of their initial platform exactly).

I’ve always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. Especially since we get almost nothing back compared to every other civilized country. Now Hedge-fund guys and other billionaires paying 19 percent is another matter entirely, but that’s an issue of tax reform and closing loopholes and no one objects to that. What the Tea Partyers are not correct about is connecting these things to the Debt Ceiling. But you can’t really blame them. They didn’t know there was one.
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As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the Media’s power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.
Since we can’t have real democracy, or jobs, or a decent wage, or money that has any value, or affordable education, or real health care, or more importantly real health, at least let us have the emotional satisfaction of hating the right people for the right reasons!
The Media has become just another meaningless bureaucratic institution that exists solely for the purpose of keeping the population distracted and diverted by the use of a constant barrage of bad news, intentionally or unintentionally designed to keep us from thinking, acting, and organizing, but mostly to remind us about those starving children in Africa, keeping us grateful that our miserable lives aren’t any worse.
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