It’s hard to pin down exactly what the Tea Party movement stands for. What I hear most often are these two main themes:
1. We need to take our country back
2. We need to cut the deficit
Three time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman has an idea that would finally give the tea party protests a direction that addresses both. According to T. Boone Pickens, in January 2010 about $27.5 billion flowed from the US to Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. That’s a lot of our country’s greenbacks that could be taken back. As T. Boone Pickens has so eloquently illustrated in his Pickens Plan, that’s $27.5 billion dollars that could of stayed in the country. We don’t need to buy foreign oil.
To address the deficit Friedman also proposes a “Patriot Tax” on all imported oil with the proceeds used to pay down the hideous national debt. Nothing gets people to use available alternatives to petrol faster than high oil prices, right?
Would Fox promote the Green Tea Party Movement? Probably not, but it would be lots of fun if MSNBC thumbed their noses at them by shamelessly promoting a movement with a much larger support base. If we could combine the number of people that just marched on D.C. in support of Earth Day with existing Tea Party members that have enough sense to realize billions flowing out of the country is a problem, the Green Tea Party would be enormous. Maybe large enough to break the fossil fuel industries stranglehold on Congress.
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