Tea party nonsense

Every time I read the newspaper or watch the national news, I hear another tea party member shouting "take our country back." My question is: Take your country back from what? Whether one agrees with President Barack Obama's health care plan or not, we all know that his heart was in the right place.

Many tea party members claim to have strong religious backgrounds. Every religion is based on helping those less fortunate than you ... just like the health care plan.

Maybe the tea party people should have shouted "take back our country" when the previous administration sent our kids to fight a war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the attack on 9/11, but certainly benefited many corporations such as Blackwater and Halliburton!

BARRY MERENSTEIN
Greenfield