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Title: VIEWPOINT: Fire Illustrates Moral Emptiness Of Tea Party
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NewsHerald
URL Source: http://www.newsherald.com/articles/good-87792-neo-haven.html
Published: Oct 16, 2010
Author: MARILYN SINGER LYNN HAVEN
Post Date: 2010-10-16 19:23:26 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 6065
Comments: 10
Neo-conservatives in good ol’ Tennessee voted down a proposal to build a county fire department because it would have cost taxpayers a few dollars more each year. So firefighters watched a house burn to the ground with its owner’s four pets still inside. The owner didn’t a pay a $75 fee for service and so was not entitled to have his home and pets saved.
This is Tea Party USA in action. No government, no taxes, no services, no civic duty, no morality.
Reactions from the Mad Hatters were expressed with their usual contempt for another’s misery: "Good, he deserved it."
I would not believe this degree of sociopathy and abject selfishness if I did not live in Panama City, where the gestalt is the same. I fear a sense of inner pain with every tragic tale told to me concerning the lack of human empathy in interpersonal relationships as well as society as a whole. It makes sense as every civilization is the sum of its parts.
I question what happened to "Don’t do any harm to others you wouldn’t want done to you." Since the beginning of time on earth, every oral and written religion and philosophy have contained this all-important "golden rule." So when has cruelty become an accepted norm? Why has it reached epidemic proportions?
I believe it’s an outgrowth of allowing the government these past 30 years to feed a monster — the corporations, with an insatiable greed that’s now feeding on us. We need to put the blame and anger where it belongs.
The Tea Party people, funded by and the voice of this monster, would have us purge the powerless and victimize the victims. They seem to enjoy the suffering of others with the same relish reminiscent of public executions.
This misguided hatred will surely cause a descent into another dark age where the individual is truly expendable and all human rights are non-existent. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*
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The firemen are Union members not Tea Partyers.
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Liberals are now pro nuclear proliferation and in support of fundamentalist religions that are against homosexuality.
#2. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)
What a bunch of nonsense.
To get a home mortgage, the bank requires you to have homeowners insurance. In many cases today the insurance company also has requirements, for example I am required to have networked smoke detectors hooked to a monitoring service.
There are areas of the country which have private fire departments.
In a free market, insurance companies would require homeowners to subscribe to a certified private fire protection service or else they wouldn't cover your house. If they don't cover your house, you wouldn't be able to get a mortgage.
It is really that simple.
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. -- Joe Sobran
#3. To: WhiteSands (#1)
The firemen are Union members not Tea Partyers.
Looks like Teabagger Central to me, Mrs. Badeye. And since there are only 3 full-time firefighters, I doubt that they're union.
2008 Vote: 66% McCain.
Religion: 58% Southern Baptist.
Race: White alone 79%.
BTW, you're doing a great job filling in for the one-eyed blunder on his days off. You're no more troubled by facts than he is.
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
The owner didn’t a pay a $75 fee for service
A deadbeat? You know what happens if you don't pay your auto insurance premium and you have an accident, don't you?
#5. To: jwpegler (#2)
To get a home mortgage, the bank requires you to have homeowners insurance.
If you don't have a mortgage, you aren't required to carry homeowners insurance.
#6. To: Ibluafartsky (#5)
If you don't have a mortgage, you aren't required to carry homeowners insurance.
DUH!!!!!
You are by far the dumbest person I've ever encountered. I'll bet you're from Arkansas.
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. -- Joe Sobran
#7. To: jwpegler (#6)
DUH!!!!!I'll bet you're from Arkansas.
You still have a mortgage, I don't and I'm dumb? You're a fookin idiot.
You're wrong, but that is nothing new for you!
#8. To: Ibluafartsky (#7) (Edited)
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I am not wasting any more time with you, YOU DUMB BASTARD...
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist. -- Joe Sobran
#9. To: jwpegler (#8)
What a childish fookin idiot you are! Don't forget your mortgage payment, clown!
#10. To: jwpegler (#6)
I'll bet you're from Arkansas.
Alaska.
Basically, it's hick country with snow.
Other than that, might as well be Arkansas.
Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.
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