The demographics of the movement skew heavily to people dependent on the very government they claim to opposed to. Thus, the “Keep the Government’s hands off my Medicare and Social Security” sentiments so prevalent at their astroturf rallies. I

f any of these dupes were actually concerned about bloated government spending where were they when George W. Bush “the codpiece commander” was piling up huge debts to give tax breaks to kleptocrats and conducting his illegal, botched wars “off budget”? Didn’t hear a peep out of these “patriots” then, did we?

It’s very hard to take such an obviously misinformed bunch of vague malcontents seriously.

The power of the Tea Party is evident by the vitriol it garners from their opponents. Keep up the good work.

Though it flies in the face of the entire foundation of your politics – that you, by age or nationality or circumstance, have the wisdom and the right to determine who does not “deserve” healthcare and other government services – I am not naive (my opinion comes from both experience AND education), nor will I sit back and shut up while thousands die because you and your group think taxation is outrageous, not untreated disease.

Testicles, that I do have. And so do you, to insult Martin Luther King, Jr. by invoking him in support of a political affiliation that attempts to erase the social work he accomplished.

I don’t live in Great Falls anymore. I had to leave my family behind because I couldn’t find work in my field. But I do have a job, and my work in attempting to fix this miserable world has begun (see: the election of Barack Obama, the charities I support).

I absolutely agree that wrong is wrong no matter what, which is why fiscally irresponsible tax cuts are absurd under both Bush and Obama. Same with invasion of privacy and the tolerance of “too big to fail” banks.

Like I said, I don’t live in Great Falls anymore, which bothers me, but it does come with certain blessings. Namely, exposure to things I’d otherwise never see in my life. It would be interesting to run your opinions by the poor Mexican Americans who take the same bus as me after work. The hardest workers I’ve ever seen are Montana contruction workers and California immigrant laborers. But what does their hard work earn? What do you say to the mother of three who is coming home exhausted from her second shift of the day, when she has to spend three days pay on doctor’s visit for just one of her children?

On a personal note, after all that has been said, I despise politics. I want nothing to do with it, and come to it only by way of the suffering of people that is sinful to ignore. I don’t even know you, but clearly we are ideological enemies. But ideology is a sick measure of a human, almost as sick as by his economic situation.

I wish you luck, and same to your kids and grandkids. There is nothing in your life, personally, whose greatness I doubt, even if I have no idea who you are. But I guess we have the split responsibility to stand for something, up against anything, and to be kind to each other individually. I’m sorry if I’ve muddled my responsibilities.

Jason…You have some really big testicles by saying “But I am calling you out for your politics – the failure to evolve, to be generous and creative, to see beyond your own needs and problems”. Unless the “you” in this statement is directed only at me, I’d say you slept through history class. And then you are blaming me/us old folks because you don’t have a job? Wow…I get a daily e-mail with jobs in the Great Falls area. There are jobs available but maybe they are beneath you? Heck, I’m not only calling you out for not being able to find a job but actually being so full of yourself to actually blame someone else for your lack of motivation and/or initiative.

NEXT ISSUE: You may not understanding this but I certainly have earned the damn right to be a “crotchety grandfather” and will embarrass my children as I see fit. It come with the territory of having raised them properly, supported them through many hard times and given them my unconditional love. Or is this one of those entitlement I have lost or maybe one of those entitlements young Democrats think they have earned?

As far as the dreamy libertarian ideas like “fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and a free markets”? Well, there is little I can say about your possible disdain for these values and goals. If these values and goals are a dream of every working person as you stated above, then it shouldn’t matter if we are at war, in a depression or if people are sick, dying or unhealthy. They are our road map to a what some people think is a better future. Someone famous person made a speech a long time ago and it included the words, “I have a dream” about 10 times. Cannot remember what the heck was going on back then but I think things were pretty bad for a certain group of people. I think this was a time when many people were dying of preventable sicknesses, an unpopular war, one of the highest stress periods in the history of our nation and likely a period when not many folks had health insurance. And you dismiss the idea of “fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and a free markets” as something that doesn’t have any meaning? In the words of Jack Ryan “How dare you, Sir”.

Then you state that the there is civility in “your” just out of history class type of politics? Holy smokes, you mean the civil way people (a lot of them young) were hanging or burning President Bush in effigy? How long ago was that?????? I’d say the ink hasn’t even dried on the history books that includes this type of your so called “sane and constructive” dialog. So please spare me your selective history of Democrats and civility. Not that I think the crap the Conservative did was right. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it…wouldn’t you agree?

I thought we had a pretty good future with the younger generation taking over from us older folks. Maybe I am being way too optimistic.

Jason…Do you think your parents would be proud of you for sharing your above ideas? If it was my children who wrote what you did there would be an old fashioned wood shed their future but I’m guessing you wouldn’t understand what I’m getting at.

Enuf of this…have a great life Jason. I wish you luck in finding that job and hope you can fix the miserable world you live in.

A total of 2,500,000 US citizens die each year, that means 2,455,000 WITH health insurance die each year.

How about the hundreds of thousands that die because of lifestyle choices? How about the 100,000 each year that die because of medical malpractice? Or how about the 100,000 each year that die from prescribed drugs?

What part of the economy and freedom shall the government take over to save them?

Maybe I should call the Tea Partiers the Cain generation.

“Am I my brother’s keeper?”

I never said that the retiring generation never contributed anything. But I am calling you out for your politics – the failure to evolve, to be generous and creative, to see beyond your own needs and problems. And I haven’t said that the younger crowd has done more for the world than the older crowd. Half of us can’t even pay taxes because we can’t find work – thanks for that!

You reap what you sow. And we are reaping what you sowed. Your refusal to come to terms with the fact that you have already cashed in our future is duly noted. If anyone has the right to be angry, I think it’s us, the young people who have just recently walked out of American history classes that trumpet the American dream, only to find staring back at us, the Tea Party and their repugnant signs and no ideas and an old political class that can’t see the citizens for all the fat corporate checks on their desks.

If you want policy specifics from me, I am a centrist Democrat, a la Barack Obama, who is doing a good (far from perfect) job. My people draft policy and debate it. It’s messy and half the time it irritates me, but it’s action. And it’s civil.