by RhinoRalph

Created on: January 22, 2011

The tea Party Movement is a group of middle class individuals that were experiencing for a while the pain of slipping back into poverty due to the devaluation of the dollar (30 percent in the last decade) and the consequences of it in the gas pump and in the unemployment numbers. Dissatisfaction was growing on the middle class for almost a decade after 9/11 when 401k and people's savings were wiped out. Some middle class people were just arriving from poverty, others were already there but finding they were all slipping back. One thing about middle class people is that they are good educated people that understand politics and they pay attention to economic principles.

This is the group that really experience more pain than the other two groups who are poor people and rich people. The poor are taken care of by government and even though some of them strive hard to get out from that class to move up to the next level, they are having difficulties climbing up and are now in the process of giving up and just accepting whatever government is giving them plus other promises like health care. The rich people can still take it. Some of them are also slipping back into middle class and they are probably joining the Tea Party Movement.

This is the reality of this movement and even though many people have been assessing this phenomenon erroneously, the fact remains that the middle class has been suffering economic loses for a while now. Can you blame them? If we don’t have a middle class what is the next level for the poor? Some people accuse the Tea Party Movement of being mostly white. Well, I am Hispanic and I am not active in the movement, although I hardly qualify to be in the middle class, but I back them up because that is (middle class) where I want to be as my next level of prosperity. The Party is open for everybody that wants to push for common sense. This is not about race, as many people want us to believe for their own political advantage.

The destruction of the middle class is evident and it has been government policies that have contributed to their destruction. The drop of water that spilled the bucket was Barrack Obama new policies that promise to damage even more of the middle class. Things like Cap and Trade that President Obama said it was going to make electricity bills sky rocketed. More bailouts that are not doing anything, plus high unemployment still affecting middle class and poor people are still our daily bread. The President promised to raise taxes on people making more than two hundred thousands a year. If you know about small businesses, you should know that small businesses want to expand and grow. Once they reach two hundred thousand a year they are not going to hire more people or expand. Now you can tell me if this is a good idea or just another blow to the middle class people.

As I said there is nothing about race here. If Barrack Obama had been a conservative with lots of common sense, The Tea Party Movement wouldn’t probably exist. “It is the pain stupid” could be the slogan today. The middle class is dying and there are some out there in the limbo following Main Stream Media circus. The Tea Party Movement is here to stay and supervise what politicians are doing on a daily basis. It's time we pay attention and get involved specifically and just let Washington know we still have power with our votes.

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