Teabaggers Arrested for Littering...

[gnome]

you folks do know that not all those tax protesters are supporters of the former Administration? To cast the entire bunch as disguntled Bushies is rather shortsighted.

There is a huge anti-tax, anti-governement movement beginning to form. Folks are pissed off about Wall Street bailouts as well as loans to auto companies, they're pissed off about bailing out insurance companies and the rising cost of everything.

That doesn't make them Bushies and to dismiss them as such is to blind yourself from a level of discontent that is on the rise. In fact, much of that discontent was what swept Mr. Obama into power. How many Obama voters were simply mad at Bush and the entire downfall of American standard of living? They went to the polls in droves, and now many of those same people are even less happy now.

The obvious bawdiness of the teabagging double entendre aside, folks are pissed off and dismissing them as kooks is missing the point.

If anything [[[[[ie Rushiphiles have glommed onto an existing movement. Sure they are adding to the noise, but the noise was there before, but maybe you weren't listening...just like Bush.

[ccbatson]

Darn straight...Individuals are upset with expanding government. The 2 are going to be linked in terms of the degree [[bigger goverment=bigger discontent).

A model exists from history...more socialism=less liberty=more misery.

[ccbatson]

All such funds [[not that much...truth be told) are payments at less than market prices, for services rendered. Said services were specifically requested by the consumers and paid for by the proxy for those consumers [[as wrong as that is as a policy), the government.

[ccbatson]

Patients, and referring Doctors on their behalf are the requesting consumers...they come directly to me or request that I visit them. Energy, for now, is largely a private endeavor, where medicine is [[for me) about 25% socialized. That is the important distinction....who reaps the benefits? Who pays for the "service" in the realm of energy?

[ccbatson]

Big difference...here's how. Do taxpayers individually request R and D into alternate energy? Is it handled via a proxy [[ie Physician) operating in the private sector?

[Bigb23]

To the surprise of exactly no one, it's now turning out that if you peek at what's really behind those teabags, you're gonna find out that what's back there doesn't pass the smell test.
What? Why are you all laughing? Cut that out, this is serious! It's about freedom and stuff!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=teabagger

[oldredfordette]

Hey, I'm all for citizens standing up and speaking out. This exercise smells of Sean Hannity [[I don't think this is his first teabagging IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN) and the other shepherds of the radical right. The protesters might be very sincere, but the way they got there was deeply cynical.