Modern-day Patriots are often misunderstood as merely GOP tools, because these Tea-Partiers found most agreement with Republicans giving lip-service to constitutionally-limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal liberty and free markets, and most incense toward Democrats' usual hostility to those things.
However, when Democrats do right by the people, and Republicans do wrong, we must be equally vocal.
Recent Iowa Statehouse activity demands such denunciation.
Even some Tea-Partiers we last elected, are guilty of the "crony capitalism" we so loath.
On nearly party-line votes, Republicans approved utilities charging customers for new power plant construction (even unapproved nuclear designs), even before beginning, with no guarantees they'll ever be built, ratepayers will ever benefit, or that we can recoup our money in that event!
This epitomizes the 'unholy alliance' that big government and big business often forms to fleece the people.
Only Senate Democrats stand between us and a scalping, like Floridians already experienced.
Likewise, Dems are more right, and GOP more wrong, on property tax reform, tho' both are still far from the positive wealth-creating tax reform we really need.
It seems they only agree on shearing Iowa drivers with another fuel tax increase, so farmers and corporations remain shielded from paying the actual damages they cause to our roads.
Whether using the State's coercive power to steal thru unequal taxation, or force unsecured investment in a publicly-granted monopoly, most government officials, of both parties, are not merely ignorant of our rights, but they are liars and thieves, not just incompetent, but criminal in their machinations.
~ Larry M. Aden, Jolley, IA.
Larry Aden is very perceptive in looking past party labels to instead examine what's inside the box. It is indeed dictatorially ludicrous for anyone of any party to assert we should be paying for utility costs (or anything else) towards someone else's speculative venture. Especially so when it may or may not ever be realized.
Posted by: randy crawford | February 23, 2012 at 05:24 PM