Government Benefits: A Lot For the Teabaggers to Swallow

[NSResponder]

750 views? I think I see why left-wing talk radio was a dismal failure in the marketplace.

-jcr

[IPOMonsturd]

For anybody that thinks that the "teabaggers" are just a bunch of Obama haters: Youtube the video "Barrett booed at Greenville Tea Party."

This is a REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN in Greenville, S.C. essentially getting booed off the stage

[garthggarth]

Yeah, but here in GA, the teaparty was coopted by my least favorite Georgian, Newt Gingritch, and a bunch of  neocon groups, They are trying to coop any message which has any traction, so instead of moderate conservatives, adn fiscally balanced people that the Repubs clainmed as thier own in the 80's, now they have anarchists, libertarians, strict constructionists,and protectionistswhich they will try to coopt. The corporate Republican party is clever.

[IPOMonsturd]

Here is a challenge: Watch the video entitled "Milton Friedman," (it's 28:34 long)and criticize it to your fullest.

I am just some "schmo" on youtube.....this is perhaps one of the greatest economist/philosophers of all time. Friedman (in part) is where I get my notion that "liberalism," at it's core, is a philosophy of FORCE, which is anti-freedom..

[IPOMonsturd]

Believe it or not, I am 33 years old and voted for Clinton, Gore, and Kerry.

The oath that all of our politicians take, from Congress to the Presidency, is that they will "defend, honor, and protect the Constitution."

After debating with libertarian thinking people, for a full year, I realized that they were right, and I was wrong.

For example: Our founders created the Constitution with LIMITED GOVERNMENT as the intent. Liberalism defies that intent, and creates today's problems.

[christschool]

Stop using the r word. That ain't very progressive. In fact, its neanderthal.

[SailorBarsoom]

Wasn't it Dubya himself who criticized Al Gore as being somebody who wanted to treat "Social Security, like its some kind of federal program?"

This is the mentality we're dealing with.

[maccaj6565]

As a disabled American, few things burn me up more than hypocrites of this nature. How can they not get that they're shooting themselves (and anyone else who's disabled and depends on government benefits to *survive*) right in the foot?

(P.S. - god, Sam and Rachel Maddow are both so so hot. I could watch them read the phone book. Geeks rule!)

[ldbia]

Hahahahah, yeah, it's VERY bizarre!

[chambernater]

hey you can disagree with people but when you call us tea baggers its a little much its tea party protest. when you say tea baggers you might as well be calling the people in the original tea party tea baggers and i dont think you would ever say that

[wimscheers]

Because they protested against taxation without representation. Todays tea parties are protesting against increased taxed, while they're actually decreasing. It's the same when a NRA would protest a pro-gun law, its insane. Obamas a Facist! Why? Because he is! Really? I honestly think the original tea parties would rather change their names than be associated with this lot.

[chambernater]

k tax rates arent going up .....yet how do you think we will pay back the obama budget??? there are only 3 ways taxes....or we borrow the money from other countries if they will lend us anymore ........or we print the money prices go up on comodities and its just another form of taxes so any one you choose 'taxes' are going up either now or in the future...or we can stop playing politics and actually try to solve the problem instead of ignoring it and calling everyone 'FUCKING RETARDS'

[wimscheers]

And what's the consensus among economics? Stop spending? I didn't think so.

Misdirected anger, why don't people group together trying to persecute Bush for mismanagement?

Why don't you hate him for putting you in an immensely expensive, illegal war?

It's a crisis, we're fucked. Cutting taxes won't work, stopping spending neither.

Just hope he goes after the system. The bonuses, will gambling and the same old 'elite bankers' will head us to an economic collapse in no time if they aren't handled.

[FriedDaisy]

You can blame this level of ignorance on GOP leaders & pundits whose corporate bread gets buttered with the likes of Ms. Wilder. They lure them in with exploitative Sunday go to meetin' hallelujah! fanfare then "reeducate" them with subtle lies, mixed messages of intolerance, and misleading talking points which they neither understand nor benefit from.

[sugarpuddin88]

USA second only to Mexico in Poverty & education - New story today: 1 in 10 Americans on food stamps

America bankrupt:

102 trillion for SS & medicare

25 trillion for TARP & bailouts

53 trillion plundered from other trusts

Every single American man, woman & child owes over $600K in FED Gov debt

The US dollar will collapse within the next 1 to 2 years

Longest period of time USA has gone without bombing someone: 2 years

Americans have the government they deserve

[IPOMonsturd]

Hey dumbass........... I will come on your show anytime and debate you on how we DO have a welfare "nanny state", and how that is in direct conflict with our country's founding, and on the freedom and liberty driven philosophy of our founders.

Singling out ONE possibly hypocritical old woman, and claiming that she "represents" the Tea Party goers, makes you look like the liberal douchebag that you are.

[mistergarth]

"Singling out ONE ... and claiming that she "represents" the Tea Party goers..."

I'm sure she was the only teabagger on social security. None of them get unemployment or medicaid. None of them use government-built roads. None of them attended public schools. And, when someone breaks into their home, they certainly wouldn't call the police. She was the only hypocrite at any of the teabagging events.

[smedleylt]

Don't forget that these protesters were hypocrites because most of them were on PUBLIC parks.

[IPOMonsturd]

We are all FORDED to pay for Social Security, Unemployment, and Medicaid. Public roads should paid for by state and local government, and public schools (which I am FORCED to pay for via my property tax.......and I don't even have kids!!!), are another example of FORCE.

The point here is that modern day liberalism in the U.S. (the 20th century) is, at its core, a philosophy of FORCE. It is against the principles in the philosophy of freedom.

I am a Ron Paul Republican..what are you?

[IPOMonsturd]

Speaking of Social Security......Although I disagree with it based on the philosophy that, at it's core, "liberalism" is a philosophy of FORCE. Let's look at these "hypocrites" that collect SS and go to Tea Parties: Because "liberalism" has allowed the government to grow to a size that is out of control, and in order to pay for it they have to PRINT MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, and, thus, the inflation that is created makes their SS payouts DECREASE every year against the rate of inflation.

[IPOMonsturd]

But before I attack "liberals" too much, let me tell you that I think today's "conservatives" are no better. In fact, they are probably worse. Worse because, where a liberal tells you the answer is bigger government, the conservative tells you that it is the problem......and then spends money in an out of control fashion (see GW Bush).

That is why I make it a point to call myself a "Ron Paul Republican." Tell me who you support, and I will tell you why RP better uphold hs oath of office.

[Orlor]

Go for it. I'd like to see Sedar rip into you.