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Tea Partiers main concern is when their next check arrives. Why is it almost every single one is on SS, Medicare, Tricare, VA, or some other government check? They are certainly concerned that if someone else gets a benefit theirs might get cut. I will give you that they are looking out for themselves and masking it around the "concern for the country".
You continue to spout lies, the facts simply do not support your ignorant rants.
For over 40 years I have been receiving my medical care from the VA. I never wanted to spend the last 40 plus years going in the hospital and having to be treated for injuries I sustained. I never wanted to lose 2-3 months of work each time I have to have another procedure done. I never wanted to go overseas and fight a war. I didn't want to be labeled as disabled. I wanted to spend my entire life whole. I didn't get that opportunity. Now the OP has the gall to criticize me for seeking treatment on government expense for injuries sustained while serving in the US military. Furthermore, I have paid into Social Security for over 48 years and still haven't drawn a penny in return. Yet, there are heroin addicts that are drawing SSI that have never made a single contribution to society, much less the SS system. The utter ignorance of this rant boils me to the core. The OP really needs to educate himself on the original intent and the reasons behind some of these programs. I guess that is hard to do when you never get out of your pajamas or the basement.
To the OP, you might want to remove medicaid from that list. Not that I agree with the tea party on this but many tea party individuals are against medicaid expansion set forth by the ACA. Medicare is tea party approved. Medicaid is not tea party approved.
Hey Look Tea Party Now Supports Gay Marriage As Well As Repeal of DADT
Its hare to believe but the Tea Party geezers who folded so fast on Dont Ask Dont Tell look like they are embracing gay marriage. Look at CPAC the Tea Party has been completely silent on gay marriage. We still have another day though so maybe Palin and Bachmann can fire up the base.
Heres one article and there are plenty more. Whats happened to the base??
Palin and Bachmann will say whatever they want because neither has to run for office ever again. Now they're just cashing in on appealing to the lowest common denominator. They are narrowing their base while others are trying to expand and be relevant.
The Tea Party has NEVER been about Social Issues.
It was founded after the excesses of the Trillion Dollar Stimulus Boondoggle on top of the TARP Bailout. It's a Grass Roots multi organization, formed in neighborhoods all over the country. There is no "Leader".
It's the Leftists that drag Social Issues into the Election cycle. They can't run on a record - they have to manufacture a "War on Women, War on Black people, War on Brown People, War on Guns ..... stupid stuff, but it's all they have.
I'm not saying the Social Conservatives are happy about Gay Americans - I doubt they ever will be, but they certainly can see that we move forward as a country and our populace must change with the times. There was never any doubt in my mind that we would not attain Equal Rights for all Americans. It is WRONG to discriminate toward anyone for what they may or may not do in their private bedroom.
I've always thought the 'Marriage' thing was bogus ..... on both sides. There is not a single State in the Union that does NOT require a Civil License to get Married. ALL Marriages are legally Civil Marriages - let the clergy decide who they will and will not perform wedding ceremonies for. Gays are turning people against them with this dumb stuff about Cakes, Florists & Photographers.
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Hey Look Tea Party Now Supports Gay Marriage As Well As Repeal of DADT
