The Tea Party - how frightening is this movement?

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Killiana1a said:

Mr Khan said:

Killiana1a said:

I can sympathize with the OP in having concerns with individual political entities, but I think people are making the Tea Party movement more than it is.

Funny in universities such blatantly racist individuals such as Malcolm X and Mumia Abu Jamal are revered as almost sub-culture idols, but any political movement containing a majority of Whites is made out to be racist, reactionary and xenophobic. Talk about White Guilt and double standards....

That being said, the Tea Party movement is this decade's equivalence in power to the hippies of the 1960s, the Christian Right in 1980s, and the Ross Perot voters in the 1990s.

Or as Newton's Law of Motion states, "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction."

Conservative Democrats such as myself expected this type of reaction (Tea Party movement) to Democrats controlling all three branches of the US Government from 2008-2010.

Yes, the US House of Representatives will go Republican in less than a week and I surmise it will be close to a 50 seat gain for Republicans. I will be relieved by this because now our politicians will have to engage in politics and compromise reflecting a larger view of the US to get policies passed rather than having Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts stomp on the minority (Republicans) in Congress and ram their stuff reflecting San Francisco values through with no Republican input.

They tried getting Republican input. Why do you think we have this watered-down wishy-washy health care bill, instead of something with some teeth to it?

Republicans would counter, why did Obama sell out to Big Pharma and not allow provisions in the healthcare bill to allow individual US citizens to buy generics or the same drug from Canada or another country?

This "watered-down wishy washy health care bill" is due more to the hundreds of millions the healthcare industry spent on lobbying to protect their financial bottom lines in the bill. This doesn't excuse Republicans who from the day Obama was elected never ever wanted to play politics and compromise, instead they decided from Obama's first day in office to be the Party of No. Well, this will come back to haunt them because Obama has the veto pen.  

Everyone sold out on this bill. My take is comprehensive healthcare reform should have never been taken up until we got the unemployment down to 8% or lower. Instead, Congress spent close to a year wrangling over a significant social policy, while ignoring the more important economic realities.

It doesn't help that insurance companies aren't really why Healthcare is expensive.

The truth is, nobody wants to tackle the true rising cost of healthcare... because nobody knows how.

All the main costs of healthcare are Education (which could be handled) and Pharmecuticals New equipment.

 

The US comes up with new medical technology at breakneck speeds... because the US accounts for 84% of the worlds medical research funding.

When you consider the EU is a greater economy GDP wise then the US....  this says something.

A decent amount of funding is redundant... but the vast majority of it isn't.

We really gotta figure out how to control those costs without taking out the profit motivation for developing new products, equipments and treatments.

 

As it stands now, our choice is between Unequal care, or equal care... but 10 years from now everyones care is worse then the care even the poorest people would of got under the unequal system.