Coming in, late, I know, but wow... my goodness. This thing is SO far out there in left field, it\'s not just Garofalo that loses credibility over it, but MSNBC for not screening her better as to what she wanted to talk about. It\'s the sort of sensationalistic story I would expect to see from.. The Enquirer, Access Hollywood, or the Rush Limbaugh show, not at all what I would expect to hear while turning on a respected news source owned by a major broadcast network. I can\'t believe I have to spell this out for anybody, but here\'s how *I* know it\'s all BS. As many of you know, I\'m a pretty die-hard libertarian. Have been for years. Sometime around 1995, I bought a couple of books from Loompanics Publishing\'s Claire Wolfe entitled \"101 things to do until the revolution\" and \"Don\'t shoot the bastards (yet): 101 more things to do until the revolution. IN these books (or one of them, I can\'t remember which) was mention of sending in tea bags with your tax return. She didn\'t speak of it as if it were her idea, but like this was already an organized thing. She had comments from IRS officials about how annoying it was to get all these teabags they had to dispose of. *I* didn\'t see what difference it would make, but I know people that could\'ve been among the first to file electronically, and didn\'t just because a jpg of a teabag, in with your electronic return is not at all the same, and they didn\'t want to give up the practice. This was before Obama OR Bush. Although, who knows, Garofalo might still claim the same thing, since 90s liberals loved to call Clinton the first black president, as if THAT wasn\'t insulting to the entire black race. He cheats on his wife, and lies about it, so he must be black? Anyway.... You know, ignorance is not something I\'m gonna be mad at anyone over. The problem is when a person, like Ganeane Garofalo, is ignorant, and yet somehow thinks they\'re an expert, and want to go on TV to spread their ignorance. Why is Obama spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave any different than Bush doing the same? Out of sight, out of mind. Bush ran on deficit spending, it\'s true. But in the short term, he gave us stimulus checks. I know even once the war began, my (taxable) income was taxed somewhere around 11-12%. THIS year, it\'s about 17%. That\'s $1000 or so out of my pocket. In the LONG run, yes, it\'s slightly better to raise taxes than to sell our kids into bondage. But people forget about those debts that their kids and THEIR kids will have to worry about. When it\'s them having to pay it, it\'s more real somehow. And it makes them mad, as it makes ME mad. For me, I don\'t much care. Regardless of how Obama spends money, or doesn\'t, any children born in America are born into a $30-40,000 debt that they didn\'t agree to take on. I kinda can\'t see me wanting to do that to my kids. To me, anything short of a balanced budget is a failure, and so Obama is failing, just like Bush failed.