Teabaggers, your tax dollars at work

by: Rosi Efthim

Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 05:21:59 PM EDT

For sure, it was a hodgepodge of message. There were people who signed on because "Fox News said it was important and I'm a Republican" and those who denied there was nothing partisan about protesting taxes. You had your anti-Corzine people - somehow CORZINE SUCKS! give me the giggles at an event celebrating teabagging... but I digress. Some of the Obama signs lamely attempted to negate his recent rescue of the captain from Somali pirates (OBAMA Admin = Ship of Fools). And some of them were pure conspiracy-theory (No Birth Cert! No President! NOBAMA).

There were your odd Atlas Shruggers carrying signs reading: Who is John Galt? and stark signs in black-and-white: COMING SOON ... SOCIALISM!

There was considerable emotion but I'm not sure how many of the Flemington teabaggers were really thinking things through. For example both Flemington Councilwoman Linda Mastellone, who was most assuredly not a participant, and longtime Hunterdon Republican freeholder George Melick, made similar observations. Melick said this:

But they all want services. And the minute you take them away, they'll be all over you.

Exactly. Follow me and I'll show you a few things those tax protesters' taxes are actually paying for.  

County Courthouse, guarded by county sheriff's officers, where they historically transacted the public's justice system, and now people gather for free speech

Flemington police officer, standing in the rain in the middle of the intersection to keep you safe as you cross the street to your protest

Main Street. You drove on this to get here. Tax money paid for this too, to build it, keep the snow off it, clean it, and repair it

I wonder if she knows very much about what sometimes happened to disabled people before the Americans with Disabilities Act and the assistance administered by the federal government in transportation, housing, education etc. Or Social Securities disability benefits that keep people out of poverty.Not to mention the publicly-underwritten curb cut she's sitting in front of.

Kids at the protest, heading home. Public education? Oh, yeah. Total socialism. Thinking about that at all while you were standing next to the lady whose sign read: COMING SOON... SOCIALISM!

If this isn't entirely enough for you, pictures from the Morristown teabaggery here.