Are there two Tea Party Movements? It seems that the Tea Party was influential in the recent election, but they must do more. It is one thing to say we need to cut government spending. However we must put forth methods as to just how to cut spending.
Without some firm plans and direction the Tea Party will become, as Thomas Friedman says, the Tea Kettle movement. "Just a way to blow off steam." We want government to cut spending and we must come up with definitive directions on just how to do that. One way is to repeal the terrible Health Care bill. This bill , in it’s present form, will only drive up medical cost and cut services.
Granted, some changes may be needed in our health care system, but the present bill is not the answer. The additional cost on business will only stymie job creation. Why would a business man hire new employees when he does not have a clear outlook as to what health care will cost him?
Our government has brought us to a state of incremental decline and we are loosing our completive edge. Politics has become a forum for legalized bribery and our representatives are divided by partisanship to the point of paralysis.
We need a leader to emerge with three characteristics. First a leader who is a Patriot, one who is more interested in fighting for his country than for his party Second a leader who convinces Americans that he, or she, actually has a plan to make America successful, thriving and respected again. Third a leader who believes his job is not to read the polls, but to change the polls.
Pollster Stan Greenburg has said that our country is in trouble and countries like China have a strategy for success and we do not. We must use our ability to attract creative talent. This means people who invent, build, and sell more goods and services. This will make people’s lives more productive, healthy, comfortable, secure and entertained. This is the plan the real Tea Party wants from its president. We will have some hard choices to make such as raising some taxes, like gasoline, and cut others like the payroll taxes and corporate taxes. The long term solution is to grow our way out of debt with American workers who are more empowered and educated to compete. It is far more than just shrinking government and slashing taxes.
Is the Tea Party up to the challenge? I see the Tea Party that is still waiting for a leader.
