Don’t blame tea party for this mess

In rebuttal to Chrisi Vineyard’s Aug. 21 letter, she presents all the Democrat “War Room” talking points as if sent by the Democratic Central Committee, the exact twisted logic all the Democrat strategists use.

Saying the tea party is to blame for the downgrade of U.S. treasuries is like saying the guy who dialed 911 and the firemen who responded are responsible for the fire damage.

S&P had warned before that if we didn’t stop spending beyond our means they’d do what they should have done with Fannie and Freddie 10 years ago, when it was apparent that politicians, all Democrats, were pushing for people to get home loans they knew couldn’t be repaid.

Their political cronies at Freddie and Fannie kept funding their campaigns and collecting bonuses for actions that should have put them in jail.

Democrats think raising taxes beyond the ability to pay is the way to balance the budget, but recessions are triggered by taxes of more than 20 percent of the GDP, slowing the velocity of money, stunting growth and pushing the economy into negative growth.

We’re awakening too late. Politicians of both parties borrowed money that we can never pay back, causing a panic. If the tea party people who sounded the alarm can find a way to extinguish the fire before it consumes us, we’ll be darned lucky.

The tea party is a loose organization, so unorganized that the Democrats are scared of their widespread grass roots character. It has Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents as members and advocates.

Raising the debt ceiling was just a fire alarm, when the real problem is overspending and socialism in Congress and the executive branch.

Wilton Jere Tidwell

Huntley