A political rant

A response to a "tea party" advocate who complained about our spending and our taxation, claiming that taxation hurts the economy and national debt hurts the economy. That seemed like a contradiction to me and I couldn't help myself. As always, I invite any comments:

The debt problem is bipartisan. The most expensive periods in our recent history were overseen by republican administrations. Not to say dems do anything much better (we're still spending like fools), but the answer isn't republicans. Don't let the "tea party" propaganda convince you of that. They don't offer a real solution. Your own statement is a contradiction, which makes sense because it's their talking point. You can't complain about our debt AND taxes. Taxes is how governments raise money to get out of debt. There's no solution there. Our economy isn't dependent on us spending so much as it is on us profiting from other countries' resources (and our own, though those are less profitable because we insist on some reasonable level of compensation and responsibility for the extraction). That imperial profit scheme is reliant on corporate multinationals, which the government needs to tax in order to pay for our services. That's how it has worked, more and more, for the past century, as we have switched from our domestic resources to those of other countries. Which is why we're in these expensive wars with no end. Which is the real reason why we're in debt. The imperialism game has gotten really expensive lately, which is to say, we're losing the game lately. What we need is a real revolution. Grass roots. Transformation of our society on an individual and community level. We need to seek domestic sustainability, fiscal sustainability (and, by default, environmental too), and turn to our innovation as the source of international relations and exchange. America needs to become the brain trust that it can be and has been in the past. No more petty fruitless bickering with the likes of Glenn Beck and Limbaugh antagonizing and drumming up irrational fear. Trust one another, at least locally, and lean on one another so that we can be more effective, like voltron.