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Can we admit that the economic policies of our government are trending much more to the right then the left? That we had members of the GOP sign anti-tax pledges and essentially threaten to drive the economy off a cliff if they didn’t get everything they wanted? I heard a woman from Britain speaking on the threat of default that Tea Party members held over our nations head…she said they were lucky they lived in the US because nowhere else in the rest of the world would a small minority of the population be able destroy their countries credit. If they had evidence this would increase jobs I would back them. There is no evidence and the only evidence is that they want to push their Grover Norquist ideals of no government. They could not govern, because it isn’t about governing it is about pushing their political ideals. There were ideas floated that would have cut our deficit much more drastically that were DOA because they involved tax increases. How long do we have to experiment with “trickle down economics” before we can safely say it has failed? No matter how many graphs we show delineating the death of the middle class we will have a group of people voting against their own best interest in the almost religious belief that somehow the money will get to them. The Tea Party got exactly what they wanted…”starve the beast” is the motto. I can’t wait to see their faces when their social security and medicare is cut or greatly reduced. Will we see a couple hundred old white people screaming about death panels then?