I'm sitting here stunned. There have been a few diaries out now citing new polling that reveals what many of us already knew about the tea baggers and how their racist feelings pretty much fuel their fake patriotic passion. But what has really struck a nerve with me was not proof of this because I don't need the proof. All I have to do is pretty much be myself. A young African American woman with Pro-Obama and Feingold bumper stickers on her car. I don't need a poll to tell me these people are racists. But there is one thing that was revealed and the more I see it, the more frustrated I seem to get.
The polling ,as well as admissions from the tea baggers themselves , reveal that an overwhelming majority of these Archie Bunker bigots are receiving GOVERNMENT assistance. Yet, the recent poll suggests that they don't want it for , well , people like me. That's a problem. They don't like the fact that people like me will have access to affordable health care and I'm sitting here thinking about how ******* greedy and selfish they really are as a people. See, they don't mind taking my tax dollars to take care of their selfish butt, but it's just un-American for their tax dollars to go to people like me.
That royally pisses me off because here I am a single woman with no dependents and do you all know what that means ? Let me tell you real quick what that means. That means I have to contribute a greater portion of my income in the form of taxes to this country because I don't have children or a husband to raise. Not only that, I have to pay Medicare taxes so that these tea baggers can get their little prescriptions filled. You know, so they can stand out there red faced angry and yell racist epitaphs without giving themselves a friggen stroke. I have to pay Social Security taxes so these tea baggers can travel all the way to Washington D.C. and demand that Congress not help people like me.
It's infuriating. It's very infuriating. Especially since I know that I'm not going to be able to retire and live on just Social Security. I know I will have to work to supplement that income if that program isn't completely gutted by the time I reach , hell, it'll be 90 years old at the rate we're going. It sickens me that my money is going to these people. And they have the nerve to complain about where their tax dollars are going ? They don't want to fund "Minorities" ? Well, I don't want to fund backwood bigots, fake patriots and pseudo religious militias. I don't want to fund greedy selfish little ***** who waste money on Palin events and bark at members of Congress about crap they have no idea what they are talking about. So, should I pick up a sign and march somewhere too ? Huh ?
No, because I have better things to do. I have a job. I have a life. I have neighbors to help and friends to support. I have campaigns to volunteer for . And even though some of my tax dollars are going to people for whom the word trash does trash no justice, I also know that there's a sweet old grand ma out there who worked her whole life being underpaid doing the same work as a man who's also getting my tax dollars. I know there's a veteran out there who's sacrificed his life to make sure I am safe at home on my computer ranting about who's getting some of my tax dollars, who's also getting some of those tax dollars. I know that when I drive around town and run my little errands, those men working on the roads are able to work because they're getting my tax dollars. So, to me it evens itself out. Thus, the beauty of America.
You see. I'm not a greedy selfish little **** like the tea baggers are. And if that makes me a "Socialist"....well then I guess that's Miss Socialist to them.
UPDATE: You dear hearts put me on the rec list. Thank you for allowing me to vent.