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The Tea Party is run by Dick Armey, former Republican majority leader, so they'll never pick a fight with the Republicans because the whole thing is financed and run by Republicans. Essentially, after GWB the Republican brand name was worthless so Armey's big idea was to put a new label on the same old horse dung and pretend it was something new. A few suckers bought it but 82% of Americans saw through the lies.
Actually, the tea baggers are led by Fox News and its golden boy Beck.
Unlike these guys, all they want to do is attack mulattoes and brownies; skinny, short, liberal white ladies; and crippled guys.
They are disgusting.
"The protests start tomorrow, Tuesday, April 27, when organizers expect more than a thousand marchers to tromp through downtown San Francisco to Wells Fargo's annual shareholder meeting at the Merchants Exchange Building. Also tomorrow in Kansas City, family farmers, retirees, veterans and union members from Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa will march through that city's financial district to the Bank of America, an action that organizers are calling "showdown in the heartland."
On Wednesday, April 28 in Charlotte, NC, citizens hurt by foreclosures and lay-offs will rally at the First United Presbyterian Church and then, proxies in hand, march to Bank of America's annual shareholder meeting at Belk Theater, while in Chicago, unions, community groups, and faith-based activists will march to the corporate offices of Goldman Sachs, whose executive bonuses, illegal practices, and political influence-peddling have made it, to use Drier's apt words, "the poster child for public anger against big banks".
Then, this Thursday, April 29, thousands of people are expected to stage a massive march on Wall Street to hold big banks accountable for undermining the economy and to demand that Wall Street do its part to help Main Street recover. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will be among the high-profile speakers.
The protest actions will culminate in a three-day "Showdown on K Street" in Washington, DC from May 15 to 17. "
Judging by how the market tanked today based on sovereign debts worries in Greece and Portugal, I'd say Wall Street is listening to what the Tea Party folks are saying. Stop bankrupting the country and passing bad checks.
Tea baggers take heed and awake from your Beck induced slumber.
That is, the few of you that are not in favor of the U.S. becoming a pseudo-Christian fundamentalist theocratic state that have multinational corporations ruling territories as their own personal fiefdoms.
"For the last four decades the Conservative Movement and its corporate backers have promoted the notion that the private sector can and should be left alone to do whatever it wants, since only the private sector (meaning international banks and corporations) can create innovation and economic growth. To facilitate this, conservative leader Grover Norquist says that government should be shrunk so much that it could be "drowned in a bathtub."
After the Great Depression, we created the Security and Exchange Commission to oversee the stock market, the FDIC to guarantee ordinary depositors against bank failures, and passed the Glass-Steagall Act that prevented banks from engaging in reckless speculative activities that would endanger the economy. As a result there was no "credit crisis" in America for over half a century - and also the greatest period of long-term economic growth on record - the period that led to the birth of the American Middle Class. The first major American credit crisis following the Great Depression happened when the Reagan Administration deregulated the Savings and Loan industry.
And then the Big Wall Street Banks, and their conservative and Republican enablers -- convinced Congress to "deregulate" Wall Street and repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in the 1990's and the results are there for everyone to see. Now they are fighting tooth and nail to kill or weaken legislation that would begin, once again to hold Wall Street Banks accountable."
The fact of the matter is the problems we have been experiencing have been building for decades.
It is the direct result of the Ayn Rand wet dream team of Greenspan, Reagan, Bobby Rubin and Milton Friedman.
If you party people want America to be great, then its time to out your money where your mouth is, and let people know you're not just some rabid lunatic fringe cult.
So I ask ince again, when are you cats going to challenge Wall Street, when will I see picket signs on Madison Ave, when are you going to call out BP?
" The crisis of middle-class America
The slow economic strangulation of the Freemans and millions of other middle-class Americans started long before the Great Recession, which merely exacerbated the “personal recession” that ordinary Americans had been suffering for years. Dubbed “median wage stagnation” by economists, the annual incomes of the bottom 90 per cent of US families have been essentially flat since 1973 – having risen by only 10 per cent in real terms over the past 37 years. That means most Americans have been treading water for more than a generation. Over the same period the incomes of the top 1 per cent have tripled. In 1973, chief executives were on average paid 26 times the median income. Now the *multiple is above 300.
The trend has only been getting stronger. Most economists see the Great Stagnation as a structural problem – meaning it is immune to the business cycle. In the last expansion, which started in January 2002 and ended in December 2007, the median US household income dropped by $2,000 – the first ever instance where most Americans were worse off at the end of a cycle than at the start. Worse is that the long era of stagnating incomes has been accompanied by something profoundly un-American: declining income mobility.
Fewer than a tenth of American private sector workers now belong to a union. People in Europe and Canada are subjected to the same forces of globalisation and technology. But they belong to unions in larger numbers and their healthcare is publicly funded. More than half of household bankruptcies in the US are causedby a serious *illness or accident. "
"Webster seems to have gotten himself in hot water with some of the Tea Party movements biggest backers -- senior citizens. Last week during a forum, Webster proposed cutting the regular Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) increases for entitlement programs including Social Security.
Webster's proposal would result in a 100 dollar per month cut for those on Social Security. Webster's proposal was so radical that none of the other six conservative candidates he was debating would explicitly call for any form of cuts whatsoever in Social Security. Webster was hounded in the press and by voters for his radical position.
As a result, Webster quickly changed his position, stating "I've never stated that Social Security benefits should be cut or reduced for those who are currently receiving benefits or those near retirement age." Despite the fact that in the debate he called for just that by saying all COLA adjustment for all entitlement programs (including Social Security) should be cut, Webster had to quickly backtrack because calling for cuts to Social Security is political suicide in a place like Florida."
The biggest issue at hand right now is taking out our abysmal failure of a government. Once we completely restructure congress, and bring in a healthy, trustworthy conservative president again, we will be back on track.
Now there is a oxymoron!
Nixon - Watergate
Reagan - Iran - Contra
Bush 41 - The Vice President during Iran-Contra
Bush 44 - Misleading and false intelligence used to manipulate the American people. Congress and the international community to support a war in Iraq.
So tell me where you going to find a "trustworthy" conservative presidential candidate?
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