Washington, DC is now a money pit into which the wealth of the nation is being poured. 6 of the top 10, and 8 of the 13 wealthiest counties in the country are located in the DC metropolitan statistical area. And how much of that wealth benefits the rest of the nation? What does Washington make, other than laws and regulations enforced upon the rest of us, while corporate and labor lobbyists effectively work to exclude themselves from the costs of government and obtain unearned benefits from it?
Of course the national Chamber of Commerce wants to kill the Tea Party: they are increasingly captive to, and clients of the Federal government. And they very much wish to maintain the status quo.
Good post.
The current Fed gov’t’s, like any socialist gov’t’s, priority is to loot the nation’s wealth. They call it fairness when outright lying and redistribution when a little less deceitful but, in practice, the main activity of a socialist gov’t is to loot.
You can explain nearly every action of the socialist leadership with this simple principle; a principle as old as humanity itself, that is, the construction and maintenance of institutions that provide the power to steal.