I must admit that at first when I decided to blog this story it was all about embarrassing loud mouth hypocrites. But as I started deciding what to write a got extremely upset.
You see, Joe Walsh is one of those opportunistic congressmen that has no values or sense of personal responsibility or concern for those in the Tea Party he claims to care for. I once told a friend, judge a person not by how he is perceived to treat friends but how he actually treats his family.
You see, someone that treats his family callously, a father that is a dead beat dad, will likely treat his friends at the time they need him most, badly. Someone that is capable of harming their immediate family whether it is financially or psychologically is not trustworthy. Representative Joe Walsh is a man that has so offended the body politic by demeaning Democrats, by demeaning our President even as our President has lived the moral life Rep Walsh is unable to live up to is shameful.
Is taking vacations with a girlfriend to Mexico and Italy while not paying child support or having a condo in foreclosure responsible? Of course it is not. Yet this man is adamant that we become responsible and cut the budget to the core irrespective of who gets hurt.
As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times in Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support
In 2004, Laura Walsh complained in a motion that despite her ex-husband’s claims of poverty, he took a vacation to Mexico with his girlfriend and another to Italy. …….
Before getting elected, he had told Laura Walsh that because he was out of work or between jobs, he could not make child support payments. So she was surprised to read in his congressional campaign disclosures that he was earning enough money to loan his campaign $35,000.
This hypocrisy is far too common among all politicians. Unfortunately the hypocrisy by those politicians taking advantage of the Tea Party folks is taken to another level.
Presidential Candidate and Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann has convinced many in the Tea Party that the government is evil, gives away taxpayers’ monies, and needs to be reined in. Yet, her entire life has been dedicated to being a government employee with government health care. Yet she would have those in the Tea Party support policies that will negatively affect their financial interest by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security even as her husband’s business is directly and indirectly benefiting from a plethora of government subsidies and government giveaways.
From TruthDig in Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen
But data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann has an inner Marxist that is perfectly at ease with profiting from taxpayer largesse. According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized—or “socialized”—businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. These subsidies are at the heart of America’s bizarre planned agricultural economy and as far away from Michele Bachmann’s free-market dream world as Cuba’s free medical system. If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse.
The above hypocrisy can be repeated over and over for just about every Right Wing congressperson taking advantage of those in the Tea Party. So far their formula for misleading the Tea Party has been successful. The question is how long can it last and is the damage they are causing on our economy reversible,
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