Re: NY Times: Tea Party Backers are SMARTER than others

On 4/17/2010 11:55 AM, Milt wrote:
> On Apr 17, 11:08 am, Beam Me Up Scotty Everyth…@blackhole.NebulaX.com> wrote:
>> On 4/17/2010 8:46 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
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>>> Steve wrote in
>>> news:om8js5prl091sn6b52gpu6gcvk87s0qf7t @&*$?%4ax.com:
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>>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:41:03 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> Steve wrote in
>>>>> news:1aqgs55sd11nqr076qnv3ibmccqn949qfu @&*$?%4ax.com:
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>>>>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:45:07 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Steve wrote in
>>>>>>> news:tdlgs51af8oo3np0trcheg4n5a1i839h47 @&*$?%4ax.com:
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>>>>>>>> On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:13:41 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>> Steve wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:9v4gs55qtuqvr5db33o6sfsv8ku6c6m1i4 @&*$?%4ax.com:
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>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:18 -0700 (PDT), Milt
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> On Apr 15, 10:13 pm, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Foxtrot wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>> innews:l4gds5tqg0jqled3iobn1s0j79c6inq71g @&*$?%4ax.com:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?hp
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated
>>> than
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling
>>> into
>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Times/CBS News poll.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nearly 9 in 10 disapprove of the job Mr. Obama is doing over
>>>>> all
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Of course we knew this already.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tea Partiers are better educated than others and they
>>>>> disapprove
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of Bow Down Obama. The corollary would be that his supporters
>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> stupid.
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>>>>>>>>>>>> These are the same people who want to cut taxes on
>>>>>>>>>>>> the rich, cut taxes on the middle class, cut federal
>>>>>>>>>>>> borrowing, and finance the federal spending they support
>>>>>>>>>>>> by………?
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>>>>>>>>>>> This kind of shoots the whole “grassroots” characterization all
>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> hell, doesn’t it?
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>>>>>>>>>> The left has to try to demonize the Tea Party movement because
>>> they
>>>>>>>>>> realize it’s potential for running the Democrats out of
>>> Washington.
>>>>>>>>>> The left is running scared.
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>>>>>>>>> Even you cannot explain how the Teabaggers plan to
>>>>>>>>> finance the government spending they support.
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>>>>>>>> “They support more government spending, you say????
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>>>>>>> “more” = your strawman.
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>>>>>>> They support prisons, the military, border controls,
>>>>>>> secret tribunals, Medicare – how do they propose to pay
>>>>>>> for them?
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>>>>>> Same way they’re paid for now, Dummy..
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>>>>> Via taxes on the rich and middle class.
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>>>>> Bingo………………
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>>>> Errrr, so what’s your point?
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>>> Conservatives have no idea how to finance government.
>>
>> The have told you…. Get the Democrats/Socialists out so the spending
>> can be dropped to a level that taxpayers can afford to pay the bills the
>> government makes.
>
> That’s funny, ‘cuz everytime you Republicans/Wackos get into office,
> spending goes through the roof.
>
> The only presidents to have balanced a budget in the post-war era were
> Johnson and Clinton. The only times government spending has actually
> dropped in the last 50 years has been when Democrats were in charge.

How’s that working so far?

> You know why interest rates went sky high under Carter? It was because
> he was trying to reign in government spending. You know why they went
> back down? Because Reagan didn’t reign in government spending. By the
> way, as a percentage of GDP, Reagan’s deficits were slightly larger
> than the one Obama will have to run this year to get us out of this
> Great recession that Republican policies sank us into.

So you say spending saves money….. right, OK come in off the ledge.

> It used to be that Republicans get us into recession, and Democrats
> get us into war. Now, you get us into recession AND war. How proud are
> YOU to be a Republican these days?

I’m NOT.