TEA PARTY PLATFOM

For the Tea Party to succeed, it needs a positive platform that extends beyond states' rights (the right to own slaves, the right to secede if you can't own slaves, etc.). A friend has suggested four positions that would make a promising start.

1. Tea Party members pledge to refuse the Obama's middle class tax cuts. About 97.4% of Tea Party members have received these cuts. Returning the money will balance the budget.

2. It is in our power to return our health care to private sources. Tea Party members will immediately drop out of Medicare, a socialist takeover of the health industry.

3. Tea Party Members will burn their social security cards and mail back all social security checks, rejecting a plot to undermine the independent American character.

4. We will demand our rights. Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, we still have no representation in the British Parliament.