by Heather Foster

Created on: April 17, 2009   Last Updated: August 10, 2009

Tea parties, held all over the country, have been well attended by concerned and angry citizens protesting the tax and spend politician's policies. Yes, the original tea party in Boston was about taxation without representation. However, even though we supposedly have representation today, do we really? After all, those in Washington have the power to make tax laws, but they make them so difficult that even they don't understand them. They could make the tax laws so simple, yet they don't want us to understand them.

Politicians seem to resent the taxpayers more than they represent them. After all, the current crop of politicians in Congress are mostly those that have been in their offices for many terms, voting themselves massive pay raises while voting in higher taxes on the public they are supposed to represent. Big media, with a very few exceptions, is showing an intense bias toward supporting the flagrant waste of tax dollars and socialist policies. A question comes to mind about their support of this wastefulness and the policies that accompany the spending. Do those in big media, supporting socialist agendas, realize that if those socialist policies come to fruition the first amendment, and indeed the entire bill of rights, will disappear and media will be forced to report only what government tells them to report? Are they really so ignorant that they don't remember the news' agencies of the Soviet Union reporting what their communist masters told them to report?

These tea party tax protest rallies make the very clear statement that citizens are tired of seeing their tax dollars wasted on unnecessary, and even silly, projects, while the tax bills are getting larger. Money given to groups like ACORN, which has been charged with many crimes, including voter fraud among many other wastes of taxpayer funds are infuriating taxpayers. Even people that voted for the current resident of the White House are angry because they feel promises made during the campaign were lies. All the machinations since the election have just driven home the fact that politicians are notorious for talking out both sides of the mouth, eloquently saying nothing and disrespecting their employers, the voters!

Look at the bailout measures taken and the aptly dubbed porkulus' bill. Congress approved TARP 1 and then had to follow it with TARP 2 to bail out the big banks and still lending resembled a clogged drain in drastic need of cleaning. Then came the subsequent spending bills,

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