Letters to the Editor
Dear editor,
The article “Taxes not Student’s Cup of Tea” (17 April 2009) would have been better served had it discussed why Republicans hijacked these Tea Parties to promote their party platform. Since you won’t report this side of the Tea Party, I will.
It began in February, when from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, CNBC reporter Rick Santelli ranted about the Obama housing bill which essentially bails out homeowners unable to pay their mortgages with tax payer dollars. Santelli teased that perhaps a Chicago Tea Party would get the attention of President Obama. While the Tea Parties began as a protest of government bailouts and over-spending (legitimate concerns in my opinion) they did not remain with these issues for long.
I watched as people in the streets of Atlanta carried signs protesting.guns and taxes?
Hold on, what were these demonstrations about anyway? Like the GOP, these Tea Parties deviated from their true, effective purpose and spread bogus information. If someone is concerned about their taxes going up, Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan includes separate tax breaks for small-business investments, tuition payments, married couples and home buyers.
Unless you make more than $250,000 the government will not take a dime more than they currently are. Our generation will not be the ones to carry this “burden of debt,” because much of the bailout money is a loan that businesses and banks will have to pay back to the tax payer. The other parts of the bailout are worthy investments in American infrastructure. And don’t even start about how Obama’s, “gonna take away my guns!”
In closing, your column was shortsighted and incorrect on too many levels for me to discuss. You did not delve into the problem, rather, you simply reported what you saw, and I do not believe that is what journalism is meant to accomplish.
While I feel you did not report on the more noteworthy story, you were not alone. You will be hard-pressed to read in the mainstream media how Republicans shred the dignity of these events and made them puppets of the Grand Ole Party.
Jamie Fleming
Former student
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Apr 24 2009. Filed under Letters to the Editor.
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