I would like to take issue with comments made by a local Tea Party representative in last week‘s paper.

Repeating erroneous Republican talking points regarding the Affordable Care Act does not add to the dialogue. It is the law of the land and is not going away. If Republicans have suggestions as to how to improve the program fine, but complaining about a done deal accomplishes nothing.

Where in the world did the writer come up with the idea that Democrats believe “it isn’t fair that some people should have more wealth than others?”

Rather, I would argue it would not have been fair if my higher than most salary was contingent on keeping the wages of those reporting to me low. What obligations do the wealthy have towards those workers who assisted them in reaching their goals?

Then there is the decades old conservative cliché “government ignores the proper limits imposed on it by the Constitution.”

Legal scholars agree our forefathers purposely utilized vague Constitutional language because they understood that the future could not be predicted (Example: See Section 8, Enumerated Powers).

In any event, the courts have the last say as to what meets Constitutional muster, not the wishful thinking of biased lay people!

I recently purchased a used Pulitzer Prize winning book entitled “Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation” written by historian Joseph Ellis. One of the subjects discussed was George Washington’s farewell address in which he devoted several paragraphs to the need for national unity.

The following words were written by Professor Ellis:

“He (Washington) denounced excessive partisanship, most especially when it took the form of political parties pursuing a vested ideological agenda or sectional interest groups oblivious to the advantages of cooperation.”

Tea Party members would do well to listen to this prophetic message from the nation’s historical past.