JOIN THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT? I LIKE COFFEE BETTER.

I do not like Tea.  I do not like the Tea Party.  The only gathering I will attend is my daughter's pretend Tea Party.  Pat the teddy bear is her featured guest.  He does not keep notes in the palm of his hand.  He is confident he can handle the conversation, and can remember his own agenda.

Pat most likely will not be attending a Tea Party rally or protest any time soon.  You see, he is a brown teddy bear, and he does not pay taxes.  The "real" Tea Party does not like brown bears, and does not like tax breaks for the poor.  I say, join the coffee party.

The coffee party does not stand still. We move and think at the same time! We don't wait to vote on a "top10" of agenda items, or put those items in a "Contract from America".  America already has a contract, it is called the Constitution, and it keeps getting misinterpreted by both Republicans and Democrats.  We do not need an extreme right "tea party" to misinterpret it further.

Contract is the wrong name or word to be used for this.  All parties have to agree to a contract, and right now, a limited "few" wrote this contract, and are pushing the majority (a whole country) to accept it.  If you have any common sense, or business sense, you would just say no and refuse the contract.  Where's my attorney review?

The coffee party has no hidden agenda.  We believe and do what is right.  All it takes is a little common sense, and we can make a decision in less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee.  Everyone should get taxed equally, a flat (percentage) tax.  Do not over tax the rich, do not over tax the poor, do not over tax the middle class.  There is a reason for using a percentage calculation for taxes:  the dollar amount changes incrementally when you multiply a larger number (like a larger income) by the same percentage.  Of course if you make more money, you are going to pay more taxes.  Put a cap on total taxes at the top, and a floor for taxes at the bottom.  This means everyone has to pay something, always, and it hurts (helps) everyone equally. 

Why are politicians lawmakers?  Shouldn't they be required to have a law degree?  Or an economics degree to head finance committees?  An MBA or business degree, or even a management degree?  Did you ever try to apply for a job that you were not qualified for?  Usually common sense told you NO, but politicians are being voted into (applying for) well paying jobs, by us, and most are not qualified for them.  Fair taxation makes sense, but shouldn't we have a group of politicians (lawmakers) with the ability to actually calculate a percentage, balance a  budget, and decide what is fair? 

I read the "contract from America", it does not sound bad, and some points even make sense.  One that does not, however,  is creating a committee to audit federal agencies for constitutionality, primarily to avoid duplication and waste.  This is pointless because we have three branches of the government and a system of checks and balances supposedly in place, thus the committee itself is duplication and waste.

Unfortunately "the contract" is designed to get normal educated people to donate their money and their time to try and get seemingly ignorant (or insert a nice word for stupid here) politicians (like Palin, O'Donnell, etc.)elected who will push an underlying narrow minded agenda normally associated with staunch republicans.  Repealing the recovery act, repealing abortion, repealing gay rights:  Republicans and tea party supporters have been unsuccessful at all of these.  What have they been successful at?  Creating the need for a recovery act, creating a justification for abortion (i.e. inbreeding), and never balancing a budget, ever.

The word extremist is not generally used in a positive way.  For example:  Religious extremist, political extremist, left wing extremist, and right wing extremist (or tea party activist).  All of the examples are used to describe a small group within a group that interprets (actually misinterprets) the larger group's general principles to an unhealthy extreme.  How do you fight against a woman's right to choose and condone the death penalty? or vice versa?  There is a common sense reason for both sides of every issue, but it is drowned out by the extremists.

Any normal person with common sense knows the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, and even when someone is trying to shovel a load of crap down his or her throat.  It is why I am not a democrat or a republican.  I do not believe any one side is completely right on every issue.  I believe in a woman's right to choose, but do not condone the use of abortion as another form of birth control.  I believe in the death penalty, but only in extreme and definite cases.

This is why I am a part of the coffee party movement.  I can think for myself, do for myself, and I just generally like coffee better.  Three great reasons, none written from notes on the palms of my hands.

The Big FU goes to the Tea Party Movement and the politicians they elect, which seem to be more of a Bowel Movement than anything else.  Same shit, different extremist delivery.  And if you want to move bowels, everyone knows that coffee just works better.

Come back next week, I have not decided what has annoyed me the most yet, so the topic is to be determined...