Leftist “Elites” Invade Tea Party Protesters

At a recent Obama speech in Tampa, Florida (1-28-10) a familiar scene was played out with the local media and leftist. The media called the protesters “Republican” even though 44% of conservatives are not Republicans. The leftist infiltrated the crowd of protesters gathered to give Obama the one fingered sauté as his motorcade passed.

One of the leftist was a know it all moron with maybe a bachelor’s degree with a couple of his side kicks arguing with Tea Party protesters. He claimed to be a “economist” studying the exotic subject at some college from the great superior state of New York. All us dumb Tea Party people should be thankful for his brilliance and patience to set us strait in our thinking. The great northern liberal helping us dumb southerners with his intellectual brilliance and superior upbringing from the Yankee north lands.
Tampa Tea Party Organizers

Tampa Tea Party Organizers

His female side kick was arguing with a protester that the United States health care was ranked 37th in the world or some arbitrary rank because the infant mortality rate was higher here than in Europe or Canada. A totally false argument that has been going around in the leftist world much like Global Warming and other propaganda with no overall look at the facts. It is a cherry picked statistic but fails to take into account the real reason for the discrepancy.

In the United States we have large Negro, Hispanic and white trash populations that for some reason like to snort cocaine and other drugs while pregnant. It doesn’t matter how great the health care system is if the baby is born half dead and addicted to drugs. To do a fair study of competing heath care system you would have to eliminate extremes like race and education. A fair comparison would be the white middle 80% population of Europe verses the white middle 80% population of America including all outcomes not just infant mortality rates. If that study was ever done the United States would be years ahead of Europe and Canada.

The Tea Party protester was arguing that the United States health care system was the best and the young leftist was arguing the simple statistic which the Tea Party protester was disagreeing with. I corrected him that the infant mortality statistic was correct but her argument was totally false. She shut up and handed off to the brilliant northerner from New York.
Orlando Tea Party protesters in Tampa

Orlando Tea Party protesters in Tampa

He immediately asked “Do you know who John Maynard Keynes is?” Like this is some secret knowledge only reserved for the elites up north. This really pissed me off. If you have been to college and were paying attention in macroeconomics you probably know Keynes wrote Treatise on Money or The Means to Prosperity which lays out the demand side argument leftist and Democrats love so much. Tax and spend. It has been the only economic policy of our federal government and Federal Reserve (Bernanke 2006) have used since 2007 when the Democrats gained control of the House and Senate. How you liking them results?

What pissed me off was he was asking average citizens this asinine question. Now if only 27.2% of the population have a college degree that pretty much means 72.8% of the population does not know. Why ask the question unless you are looking to show off?

I asked him what “crowing out” was. He didn’t know so I explained “any reduction in private consumption or investment that occurs because of an increase in government spending” or something to that effect. I then asked him who Milton Friedman was and got the brilliant reply “Oh he’s a bad one” or some nonsense. Friedman was the guy who ripped Keynesian economic theory to shreds and won a Nobel Prize for his work in 1976. Suddenly he complained I was talking to loud and he wanted to move on.
Tampa Protesters 1-28-10

Tampa Protesters 1-28-10

Later down the block he and his intellectual elites were arguing again about education and how blacks were not getting the same educational money whites are. I told him there was no correlation between education spending per pupil and results. He came back with “causation and correlation are not related” or some such Cliff Notes crap. Fine he knew what correlation was so I asked him if he knew what regression analysis was. Blank stare. End of argument.

Apparently up in the great educated north they don’t explain regression analysis gives you a correlation or maybe a few. Not exactly the kind of education I would want for my kid. And I am sure in the great elite north they skip derivatives and integrals to find max, min and areas under a curve used in the backward south. Just a guess. I pointed out that in Detroit the per pupil spending was $11,000. A pretty decent sum. More than in those mean evil white kids get in the suburbs. No explanation of the “real” cause. More blank stares and he ran away again.

Finally wanting to leave a positive note I told him Libertarians were opposed to social engineering on the federal level but if a local community wanted socialized medicine let them knock themselves out. Of course I know that freeloaders would bankrupt any community offering freebies and soon they would stop the insanity but I kept my mouth shut.

What really pisses me off about these leftist is they think they are educated. This dude comes into a crowd of average citizens asking abstract economic questions. It would be like a engineer going to a Tea Party and asking “Do you know Newton’s second law?” Or a chemist asking “Do you know Boyle’s Law?” How in the hell is the average person going to know? They don’t. All they know is the federal government and Federal Reserve are taking them for a ride and they want to get off. It doesn’t take a economist to figure out when the government prints money faster than the year before there will be inflation sometime in the future. It doesn’t take a economists to figure out taxing everything that moves concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the government and takes away from families’ ability to feed their children. It doesn’t take a economist to figure out that when the government borrows billions and trillions of dollars there is less money for private companies to borrow. People know Keynesian economics is a failure even if they don’t know the dude that invented this leftist school of economic thought.