On 16/04/2010 5:47 AM, hk wrote:
Fighting Against the Tea Party

According to a New York Times poll, Tea Party supporters tend to be
Republican, white, male, married and older than 45. I'm guessing you're
not surprised.

Nope.

They also told the Times they were in favor of smaller government, "even
if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut."

Yep. 90% don't work at all. The other 10% is highly debatable. Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac, just two examples but plenty more.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want
to cut Medicare or Social Security—the biggest domestic programs,
suggesting instead a focus on "waste."

Ah, the extortion card. Justify all tax increases on SS and not the
ACORN waste. Oh wait, lets add heath care, license to tax you over, and
over and over again.

This is always the problem, of course. It's a good bet they don't want
to cut defense spending either, and interest payments on the national
debt can't be cut. But once you take out those things, you have less
than a quarter of the federal budget left. Even if 20 percent of that
were waste—and that's an improbably high number—cutting it out would
only reduce spending by 5 percent.

How come all they want to do is cut the SS and defence, the only two
real value things they do that *ALL* people benefit from. Don't want to
touch big pork and slum vote buying!

Welcome to the incoherence of the Tea Party movement. They don't really
know what they want, they just know that someone, some liberal, is doing
something they don't like. But in a way, incoherence is the whole point.

Liberalism is great when someone else is paying for it.

The movement may have started at a grass roots level, but it's
increasingly funded by some very well-heeled right-wing groups who
figure that incoherence is a virtue. They don't really care about
government waste, after all. They mostly care about making cynical use
of shock troops who can help them put a stop to any progressive
legislation that threatens corporate special interests. They need anger
to channel, not activists with pesky ideas that might interfere with
their agenda.

You statism supporter should really take a worldly view of things. Any
time in history or elsewhere on this rock when government gets too big,
it becomes a war or problem.

Does not mater if you are republican or democrat, corruption needs to be
driven out or we might as well say to our grand kids, welcome to
government debt and tax servatude.

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The Liberal way, take no responsibility.