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Killiana1a on 29 October 2010
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Kasz216 said:
Killiana1a said:
TheRealMafoo said:


Well, bidding on something is not the problem. There are things you don't ask for a bid on, because you know only one company can do the work. Why ask people to spend millions of dollars on something, when you know it will mean nothing?

That said, 90% of the money we spend on military I would end. I would end both wars. I would also end farmers subsidies.

I would end federally funded education. I would end Social Security, I would end Welfare, I would end military buildup. If there is a need for military research (and in some areas, there is), I would continue to fund it.

If there is no military need for NASA, I would end it.

I would aslo submit to repeal the 16th amendment (federal income tax).

I would put our money back on some standard, so a dollar has real value.

I would remove 95% of all the laws the federal government has made. I would remove laws that make drugs illegal, gives tax breaks to people who have kids, tax breaks to home ownership (this is where the federal government should collect it's money).

The Constitution was a document designed to limit what the federal government could put there hands in. Today, they tell you what you can eat, what you can drive, what you can wear, what your allowed to live in, what kind of medical care you must have, and something about every faset of your life. This is not what the federal government was put in place to do.

The things I want to change, 120 years ago, was the way things were. It's not crazy talk. Over the last 100 years the US Federal government has used its power to take control over everything.

Do you think we are better off for it? I sure as hell don't

Thank you, I appreciate the response and informed political view. I find it hard to disagree with many of your suggestions as I am employed in the private sector and have no stake as a public worker.

Do I like taxes? No, but I realize they are the cost for living in a society such as the USA or any industrialized nation. That being said, when USA today shows Federal bureaucrats averaging $70k/year in income and state workers $50k/year in income, while the private sector in total only averages $40k/year in income per worker, then something is seriously wrong.

Deficits and public sector compensation, benefits and pensions are primary factors in driving the Tea Party movement. I find it hard to disagree from these angles, but once you get the kooks talking about doing away with the separation of church and state, then I start to wonder if the media is right in the Tea Party movement being another fountain for the Christian Right?

Yes and no.   It's not really a fountain for the Christian Right... they reached out to left leaning conservative democrats... but the media scared them away.  Republicans and Independents overwhelmingly don't buy the "they're racist" angle, but something like 70% of democrats buy it.

The democrats and media did a good job of screwing up the social side... because they knew a fully realized Tea Party would basically be a Democrats for a LOT of people who vote Democrat, like the Union Democrat..

It will be interesting to see how it evolves really.

I am not denying media such as CNN and MSNBC along with the early morning ABC and whatnot that are parents and grandparents watch has tried to pigeonhole the Tea Party movement as just another bunch of disgruntled Republicans who did not vote in 2006 or 2008, but got so riled up with Obama taking office they are politically charged more than ever. This is false because if you take the time to watch the videos of Tea Party rallies, most of those participating have had none to very little political participation in the past.

What I contend with is this notion that the Christian Right is not involved at all. When I see Tea Party rallies on Fox News where they have some fundamentalist ranting and raving about doing away with a large chunk of the 1st Amendment concerning the separation of church and state, then it ain't hard to see the Christian Right is involved.

The Tea Party is a movement. Thusforth, you will have stalled movements such as the Christian Right hanging on it's coat-tails in order to get publicity for relevancy.However, one bad apple in a barrel does not spoil the entire branch.

As a conservative Democrat, I sympathize a lot with the Tea Party movement. When it correctly brings up the issues of our children and great grandchildren paying for the deficits of the Baby Boomers and their bad choices, then I am 100% with them. However, when they endorse fringe right wing candidates I just cannot bring myself to vote the way they want me to because I have a defined set of political views, which are not apt to change with a swing in the national political mood.