Bring Them Down To Your Level

The Tea Party is mobilized and organized.  The rest of us are squeezed out of the process by neglect, cynicism, or outright disenfranchisement.  That's precisely what the GOP wants, and when that happens, it leads to stories like this.

With a low voter turnout — about 13 percent of the city’s 84,521 registered voters — residents cast ballots to strip police, firefighters and the city’s general employee’s of their current pension plans, allowing the city to save $8.5 million.

And this will happen again and again in cities, counties, and states across the nation.  Take government apart, and then give the savings to the Almighty Job Creators, who sit on the money and won't create jobs because nobody has money to buy anything.  This is what happens when you give up your right to vote and say "why bother."

That's what the GOP is glad to let you do.  That way you don't matter.