Cantor, tea party promote divisiveness

Membership in the tea party means being out of touch with reality. For instance, there’s Eric Cantor, the Republican tea party dandy from Virginia who recently used his slightly southern lilt of voice to call those citizens who have taken up residence at Wall Street as mobsters and anti-American.

Actually, it’s just the opposite. These are Americans who choose to give voice to their angst and anger about an out-of-touch bunch of banksters on Wall Street and their Washington cronies in Congress free reign to create and generate instruments of financial destruction. Even the Ayn Rand-minded Alan Greenspan acknowledged that this reckless behavior demonstrates the inability of Wall Street to govern itself.

Such a gathering of protesters is what our nation has recognized as a right as protected by the First Amendment. Instead of acknowledging this, Cantor whines about class warfare. Well, yes, Mr. Cantor, but not how you mean it. When you chose to demean those who have lost the jobs and homes, you chose to ignore the unfortunate circumstances of these losses and stand to deliver a further divide between the haves and have nots.

Obviously, as a member of the upper and ruling class, you could do much to provide some solutions to the unemployment problem. Thus far you have not provided anything but rhetorical nonsense about the president’s jobs bill. Instead of being so dismissive of it, give it an intelligent critique and create amendments that would advance its purpose.

So, Mr. Cantor, as you used to say to the president, “Where are the jobs?” Use your tongue not to divide, but unite this nation to help bind up its economic wounds.

Thomas McGrath

Arlington Heights