Details of Budget Agreement

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Viper1 said:

enrageorange said:

Yes these "spending cuts" are next to worthless, but teaparty conservatives??? That is not what we need at all. What we need is people willing to work to fix the problem. Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've heard in the news, including fox news, they just want to cut, cut, cut as much government spending as possible. They don't really specify anything specifically. Of course they want to cut entitlements, but that is a very very broad term. They seem to want very little government regulation, but yet again the past has shown businesses will take advantage of the people without it.

The mainstream media hates the Tea Party and realy doesn't want to give them a vocal platform to speak from.   So you won't get specifics, just generalities and vagueness with the intent to confuse.

Also, keep in mind that the Tea Party is not truly a full political party like the Republicans and Democrats.  So detailed prinicples are nto going to be as well known and formulated.

If you want details, look into Ron Paul.  He's the spiritual godfather of the Tea Party and his ideas on cutting and what to cut are very well known.

Additionally, you could look into proposals and debates given by other people that have deep associations by the Tea Party, such as Rand Paul or Marco Rubio. They would give you examples of what they wanted to cut.

In the case of Ron Paul, he wanted to propose a $20 trillion dollar spending cut by freezing all government spending at the 2011 level over the next 10 years. Since expenditures would not go up, we would 'save' the said $20 trillion as we didn't increase expenses, while revenues eventually rose. Since the expenses would be capped, the government would then allocate the money to the most needed programs and reform where needed (e.g. means-testing SS and medicare, cutting defense spending).

Here's a bit from Ron Paul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCkFPaePPQ