Tea Party

[robertsondavies]

Am I a tacit or closet racist if I support the Tea Partiers? I didn't go to any of the gatherings, but as I sit in my rocking chair, I don't like the idea of printing trillions of dollars to avoid the near term pain we need to incur for years of over leveraged consumerism. Is my concern for our future standard of living tantamount to being anti-obama racist?

I love the Margaret Thatcher signature/quote above by the way. Nice work.

Sincerely,

A confused white man (gasp), who actually supports his President for what he represents for diversity, but doesn't support what Congress and President are doing to this country fiscally, and with reckless abandon.

 

[sunspotbaby]

Sure got quiet.

 

[Lynnie]

Y'all are making me giggle~~~~ stop it!

 

[hnooe]

To Denigrate and attack is par for this course.

this must make it alright.


So so sorry (Blush)


I certainly did not mean to offend anyone--it is not in my nature.

 

[Lynnie]

To Denigrate and attack is par for this course.

this must make it alright.


So so sorry (Blush)


I certainly did not mean to offend anyone--it is not in my nature.

This is why y'all make me giggle - somehow I know this isn't in your nature! ;-)

MWAH~~~~~~

 

[30ashopper]

2008 spending for social security 608 billion, medicare 386 billion....anyone want to admit sucking the 2 biggest government teats? i thought not.

I'm too young for either ss or medicare. Down the road though I wont feel guilty about accepting a ss check since the system is based on an investment contract, "what you put in is what you get out plus interest", not welfare.

i hear no means testing being sought by aarp, goalkeeper of the true welfare state.

Do you feel SS payments should be means tested? If we did that, the contract would be broken completely (it's already been 'bent' a few times) and would revert to just another form of welfare.

Speaking of which one of the big fights coming up this term will be Obama's plan to break the contract for some earners by removing the cap. Something I completely disagree with and hope reps and moderate dems put a stop too.

(and for the record, I am not, nor ever will be, a member of AARP.)

 

[30A Skunkape]

You know what is so funny about the tea party participants are or are not nuts debate...LuciferSam posted a photo of a tea lady in #111 above and she is held up as an example of a wacko (or a dbag, to be more specific). If those teabags were photoshopped out and a sign in the background added that read something along the lines of 'code pink says Bush is a Nazi', suddenly, her perceived nuttiness would shift 180 degrees and the vocal leftists would see her as 'principled' and the vocal righties would see her as 'an extremist'. Isn't it interesting?

 

[idlewind]

I will continue to speak my mind and express my thoughts. Obama is leading America in the total correct direction IMO, and his ideas are clearly supported by 70% of all Americans--some of whom you and your very cold hearted cohorts, 30A shopping and Margarita, may also disagree with--but, hey! Its a free country.

As I said, I have no problem with anyone speaking their mind. I also have no problem with debating the issues. It would seem I am in the minority on both of those positions.I would check the 70% figure, that is not AMERICANS, that is DEMOCRATS. The latest "strongly approved" numbers are 35% with 29% "strongly disapproving." The rest of the country is in a wait and see mode.

It is far too early to tell for sure the effect President Obama's policies will have. What we are experiencing now results from the Bush policies. The shame is that as far as I can see, there is no difference, both are spending our money recklessly, both are expanding wars and both are trying to appease their political base on cultural issues. Both are also leading us into oblivion IMHO.

 

[idlewind]

You know what is so funny about the tea party participants are or are not nuts debate...LuciferSam posted a photo of a tea lady in #111 above and she is held up as an example of a wacko (or a dbag, to be more specific). If those teabags were photoshopped out and a sign in the background added that read something along the lines of 'code pink says Bush is a Nazi', suddenly, her perceived nuttiness would shift 180 degrees and the vocal leftists would see her as 'principled' and the vocal righties would see her as 'an extremist'. Isn't it interesting?

Man, you hit the nail on the head. We care to much about appearances and not enough about issues. As long as the package is attractive, we will accept anything.

Something else that is funny is this constant " where have you been the last eight years" talk. People have been talking about rampant runaway government spending for years, but the issue assumed crisis mode when President BUSH gave away 900 billion for no good reason. President OBAMA then called him and raised him 1 Trillion. BOTH parties are at fault and BOTH parties deserve blame. Now let's see which party will change and propose to fix the problem or will a third party be needed?

 

[LuciferSam]

You know what is so funny about the tea party participants are or are not nuts debate...LuciferSam posted a photo of a tea lady in #111 above and she is held up as an example of a wacko (or a dbag, to be more specific). If those teabags were photoshopped out and a sign in the background added that read something along the lines of 'code pink says Bush is a Nazi', suddenly, her perceived nuttiness would shift 180 degrees and the vocal leftists would see her as 'principled' and the vocal righties would see her as 'an extremist'. Isn't it interesting?

Yeah, I think that these gatherings are largely composed of Cindy Sheehans of the right, although that's a bit denigrating to Cindy Sheehan.