The Tea Party you have .vs the Tea Party you want.

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Today's Tea Party, does NOT stand for the same thing the original tea party stood for.

 

 

If a Tea Party was to be formed in this day and age, it would be fighting against all these corporate kick backs that allow companies to monopolize our life.

 

IMHO, THEY ARE THE REAL ENEMY, not the governments evil spending ways that a typical tea bagger would like to criticize governments involvement in our lives.

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[ImWithStupid]

Today's Tea Party, does NOT stand for the same thing the original tea party stood for.

 

 

 

If a Tea Party was to be formed in this day and age, it would be fighting against all these corporate kick backs that allow companies to monopolize our life.

 

IMHO, THEY ARE THE REAL ENEMY, not the governments evil spending ways that a typical tea bagger would like to criticize governments involvement in our lives.

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Who do you think gives the corporations the kick backs?

[phreakwars]

Congressmen who have had their wee wee's sucked on by Corporate lobbyists.

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[ImWithStupid]

Congressmen who have had their wee wee's sucked on by Corporate lobbyists.

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Yep. I think Congress should regulate and control itself and the corporation/cronie capitalism thing will take care of itself.

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If congress was still limted to exercising the enumerated powers in Article I Section 8 of our constitution and the subsequent amendments corporate kickbacks would not exist.

 

I believe the original 2009 Tea Partiers were influenced by classical liberalism and our founding fathers. The Republicans took them over.

[phreakwars]

If congress was still limted to exercising the enumerated powers in Article I Section 8 of our constitution and the subsequent amendments corporate kickbacks would not exist.

 

I believe the original 2009 Tea Partiers were influenced by classical liberalism and our founding fathers. The Republicans took them over.

Damn straight !!

 

Alex Jones, Ron Paul, and the rest of the original Tea Party... all for taking down all the corporate dominance. A Tea Party, EVEN I would be interested in.

 

Now, all I ever hear, is Fox News making the Tea Party, one who has issue with the government, and according to Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity... big corporations=good.

 

It's very easy to see why the Republican party (also a corporation...well pretty much) would Hi-Jack the movement.

 

First the Tea party was all "DOWN WITH THESE CORPORATE ASSHOLES AND THE GOVERNMENT THAT EMPOWERS THEM", Now all of a sudden, the cry is "DOWN WITH SOCIALISM, GOVERNMENT SPENDING, LIBERALS, HEALTH CARE, ETC, ETC.."

 

Huh?

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[ImWithStupid]

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[hugo]

We have found the enemy and it is us...the first party that acknowledges the obvious; you have to either cut entitlements, raise taxes, or a combination of the two will lose in a landslide. The complaints about earmarks and government waste are red herrings. You cannot approach a balanced budget without cutting entitlements and/or raising taxes. When the Republicans chose to ignore Barry Goldwater balanced budget conservatism and went down the path of deficit spending they nade a big mistake. Instead of huge deficits forcing us to reduce the size of government it simply allowed us to act like a drunken sailor with a credit card.

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But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789