From Rush Limbaugh to Glenn Beck and from Sean Hannity to Bill O'Reilly they send the same message over and over, day after day. How do they all arrive at the same conclusions, even the same sound bites with flawless accuracy? They are paid to say what big corporations, big-time religion and the super wealthy want them to say. They speak and the Tea Party echoes. They are the programmers hired by the super wealthy to program the compliant flock of followers who rally around every concept that puts the interests of corporate America ahead and above the rights of everyday taxpaying Americans. Look at Glenn Beck's well publicized $32 million income. Around $3 million of that is earned at his job, the rest can be characterized as the payoff. What do big corporations, big-time religion and the super wealthy get for their share of that $29 or so million? They get programming that produces tens of thousands of obedient followers fighting for corporate welfare while impoverishing the middle class. Of modest incomes mostly, they nonetheless cry for huge tax breaks for the super wealthy and big corporations and they fight against anti pollution laws that hold big corporations accountable for damage done to the public and leaving it to the government to clean up the mess at taxpayer expense. This coddling of the giant powerful corporation by government is not a new idea. It has been the dream of much of the super wealthy class forever. What is new, is the force of the masses of duped average income people shouting in support of this idea at the expense of their own good future. Little do they understand (or want to understand) that, given success by the Tea Party, they will work for pennies, be saddled with all the tax burden and be deprived of the protections of the Constitution and government. That really is shooting oneself in the foot!