Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated

cawacko said:
And I say this not because I'm a member of Gen X which I am but competition is not even close for the Baby Boomers (which my parents are members of - sorry mom & dad but you count in that group as well). First Baby Boomers want to rebel against the Greatest Generation? Watching anything on WWII and people of that group sacrificed compared to their kids who wanted to do nothing but hang around and smoke dope all day while claiming to 'change the world'. (Yes I know, very large generalizations being made here).

So with all due respect I say f*ck the baby boomers. We have enough partisan b.s. back and forth on this board everyday well we can change it up for the moment and have a little age wars.
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Fuck the Gen-Xers too. MY generation is the greatest this century will see.
 
cawacko said:
Haha, I was just playing about the baby boomers stuff. Now I have heard exactly what you just stated about women as they get older and know what they want and aren't afraid to say it.

It's funny here I am at 37 talking to girls in their mid 20's because it's cool they are so young but at the same it's also a waste because they are so young.
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I don't know about that. It's all about the relationship and your chemistry, with in reason. I was a year older than you when I was introduced to the 20 year old girl who became my wife 4 years later. We just clicked. It was awesome and I was the one who was waaaaay more worried about our age difference then she was. 10 years later that's amounted to doodly squat. We're very happily married and well adjusted.
 
"Tea party backers?" Wow, we've come a LONG way in a short time here!

Thanks for this article which totally destroys and blows out of the water, the left-wing MYTH that "Tea party backers" are drooling illiterate backwoods knuckledragging racist hicks who drive pickups and cling to guns and bibles. It's nice to know that was all a bunch of outright goddamn lies and propaganda from the left because they didn't agree politically.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I don't know about that. It's all about the relationship and your chemistry, with in reason. I was a year older than you when I was introduced to the 20 year old girl who became my wife 4 years later. We just clicked. It was awesome and I was the one who was waaaaay more worried about our age difference then she was. 10 years later that's amounted to doodly squat. We're very happily married and well adjusted.
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Interesting. I don't let a woman's age turn me off if she's young. You are correct it's all about whether you make a connection or not. There are those times though where someone younger is at a totally different point in their life than you and you can see that right away.
 
christiefan915 said:
And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

Others could not explain the contradiction.

“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.” [/I]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?hp
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there's your money quote.

They want to slash government spending, except when it benefits them.

They can't quite articulate what it is they want to "slash", but chances are it probably has something to do with being stressed out about government benefits that go to the "darkies"

GOP Congressional Candidate Courts Tea Bag Party with Anti-Government Rhetoric; Receives $200,000 Annually in Government Handouts

But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect “tea bag party” candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.

The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year.

http://firedoglake.com/2010/04/02/g...eives-200000-annually-in-government-handouts/
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christiefan915 said:
Here's an interesting article about the Tea Party. It was too long to post so I cut out the middle in the interest of brevity, but it's a good article. The last few paragraphs, bolded, indicate there may yet be hope for some of these folks. :)

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...

The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45...

And while most Republicans say they are “dissatisfied” with Washington, Tea Party supporters are more likely to classify themselves as “angry.”

Tea Party supporters’ fierce animosity toward Washington, and the president in particular, is rooted in deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich...

The overwhelming majority of supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites — compared with 11 percent of the general public.

They are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people...

And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.

But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”

Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.

Others could not explain the contradiction.

“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/politics/15poll.html?hp
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Why is this a conundrum? We paid for it, so give us the money back. :pke:
 
Pretending the big gov argument is overcome by ss is childish. We did pay in me for 35 years. You could cut gov for a lifetime and never touch SS. weak argument for small minded simpletons.
 
Lib-tard argument is that if you don't like big government then you shouldn't take Social Security, you should send your kids to private schools and when a drug-crazed asshole breaks into your home you shouldn't call the cops.
 
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