With No Job, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

[cynatnite]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.

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The Great Depression, too, mobilized many middle-class people who had fallen on hard times. Though, as Michael Kazin, the author of “The Populist Persuasion,” notes, they tended to push for more government involvement. The Tea Party vehemently wants less — though a number of its members acknowledge that they are relying on government programs for help.

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Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s “Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s “The Law,” which denounces public benefits as “false philanthropy.”

“If you quit giving people that stuff, they would figure out how to do it on their own,” Mr. Grimes said.

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Mr. Grimes, for his part, is thinking of getting a part-time job with the Census Bureau. But he is also planning, he said, to teach high school students about the Constitution and limits on government powers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28teaparty.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Good article overall.

[louis-t]

1. So, he's going to work for the census bureau?

He wants the gubmint program that supports him to end and wishes to gain temporary employment working for the gubmint? Mr. Grimes, send back your SS check. Someone else can put it to better use.

[Aviation Pro]

2. The second most useless job ever: financial consultant .....

...just above Amway distributor, which a lot of the teabagging, motherfucking assclowns are.

[Ikonoklast]

5. 'Financial consultant'.

Last time a friend and I had breakfast together, he asked if it was ok if another guy showed up, he had some business to conduct, I said fine, the more the merrier.

The guy was pitching some sort of Amway-type pyramid scheme involving coffee; I sat there listening, eating my breakfast, saying nothing.

Then the guy went off on a tangent about losing previous his job as a 'financial consultant' because of that Socialist Obama.

I had to ask him when he lost his job, he said November of '08.

Some people are just too dumb to realize just how dumb they are.

[Contrary1]

3. So did Mr. Grimes end up getting his government health care?

Or was he pissed off because he didn't qualify for that "false philanthropy"? Funny, the article doesn't seem to answer that.

[JohnWxy]

4. didn't the Republicans pass a bill denying funding to Acorn because of their political advocacy

activities. Maybe we should stop SS payments and refuse Federal employment to this jack-ass. Unlike ACORN, it appears 100% of this guys funds are coming from the Federal Government.

The public money going to ACORN was for community support activities, such as helping people get mortgages renegotiated so they could keep their homes, and signing up new voters. Private donations is what financed their legislative advocacy activities.