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My experience extends beyond the halls of academia.
For most of 2008 I was self-employed. I definitely worked my ass off last year. Today I wrote a check for $11,200 to the United States Treasury for taxes still owed. I already paid $3000.
I would do some good in my own community with that $11K. As it happens, it is going to a corrupt, greedy, self-serving state bent on national suicide.
I am fed up. I am fed up with this government. I am fed up with playing the good citizen and getting bitch-slapped for my efforts. Had I worked less, not paid my mortgage, not saved, and not invested, this government would be bailing me out. Had I been in a corporate office preaching the virtues of capitalism, this government would be bailing me out. Had I taken a company and wrecked it, I would be getting billions. I am disgusted.
These tea-parties seem to be for people in my situation, although I don't see what difference they could make. Perhaps they will evolve into something bigger. Something no one can imagine now. Now that I think about it, I think I'll go.
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