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Monday, January 31, 2011

Schools Matter: Hey Tea Partiers: We're Ready to Help You Take Our Country Back

Schools Matter: Hey Tea Partiers: We're Ready to Help You Take Our Country Back

Hey Tea Partiers: We're Ready to Help You Take Our Country Back

If the angry Tea-Partiers would turn off their hate radio and Faux News for a few days, they may begin to realize that the source of their anger is not that there is black Kenyan in their White House or that Nancy Pelosi is trying to turn Stillwater into San Francisco or that the socialist-fascist-communist nexus is out to take away their Big Gulps or their closets-ful of bristling weaponry.

The real source of their anger is that their country has been hijacked by unrestrained corporate greed that has no loyalty to any people or any nation, the U.S. of A. included. The oligarchs are running the show, including their hate radio and TV, and the deepening chasm between the haves and the used-to-haves will not be addressed by blaming gays or feminists or abortion doctors or minorities or immigrants or even teachers.

The people of Egypt, from the dock workers to the cabbies to the university professors, have come to realize this in a blaze of insight that began with one street vendor in Tunisia who, at the end of his rope and his chances, set