Sat May 25, 2013, 08:16 PM

ck4829 (29,767 posts)

How exactly do Tea Party groups promote social welfare?

Was it when they threw five dollars at a man in a wheelchair and had Parkinson's?

Was it when they told people who said they couldn't find a job or needed to find another one to just find a job?

Was it when they cheered Rand Paul when he said people on unemployment should eat cake?

Was it when they shouted "YEAH!" when the question was to let the uninsured die?

Was it when they paraded pictures of Obama caricatured as a witch doctor and demanded that people not call them racist?

Was it when the Mad Hatter of the Tea Party, Judson Phillips, ran out on a nearly $750k hotel bill?

Saying that Tea Party groups promote the social welfare is like calling Scrooge a man of charity because he asked if there were still debtors prisons.

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
How exactly do Tea Party groups promote social welfare? (Original post)	ck4829	May 2013	OP
They are the exact opposite of social welfare	Ed Suspicious	May 2013	#1
Tea Party groups promote the welfare of the uber-wealthy, albeit a very small segment	indepat	May 2013	#2
kick	kentuck	May 2013	#3
I think they promote social warfare	LeftInTX	May 2013	#4
STOP CALLING THEM TEA PARTY	Skittles	May 2013	#5
I remember the early days when they proudly self identified as teabaggers	Dragonfli	May 2013	#7
what irks me	Skittles	May 2013	#11
Worse, they are stooges for oligarchs and the exact opposite of the namesake they would hijack	Dragonfli	May 2013	#12
absolutely right	Skittles	May 2013	#13
they do, but the whole thing is "promote the welfare of the social elite"	Dragonfli	May 2013	#6
They are perfect people who have to live among the great unwashed	Boomerproud	May 2013	#8
They DO help unite the forces of sanity, moderation and common sense against them.	Canuckistanian	May 2013	#9
THey are the most greedy group in politics	Rosa Luxemburg	May 2013	#10
I'm sure they think they promote social welfare	booley	May 2013	#14

Response to ck4829 (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 08:21 PM

Ed Suspicious (8,879 posts)

1. They are the exact opposite of social welfare

unless reducing tax burden equals social welfare.

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Sat May 25, 2013, 08:27 PM

indepat (20,899 posts)

2. Tea Party groups promote the welfare of the uber-wealthy, albeit a very small segment

of our population who would get by just fine, thank you, without this gratuitous welfare.

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Sat May 25, 2013, 08:45 PM

kentuck (101,279 posts)

3. kick

very good post!

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Sat May 25, 2013, 09:54 PM

LeftInTX (15,504 posts)

4. I think they promote social warfare

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Sat May 25, 2013, 10:18 PM

Skittles (134,494 posts)

5. STOP CALLING THEM TEA PARTY

THEY ARE TEABAGGERS

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Sat May 25, 2013, 11:06 PM

Dragonfli (10,622 posts)

7. I remember the early days when they proudly self identified as teabaggers

So very proud of coining such a "unique" term. (until their neighbors told them they knew what that meant and told them what dirty buggers they were for being up to such things)

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Sun May 26, 2013, 02:41 PM

Skittles (134,494 posts)

11. what irks me

is the idea they have ANYTHING in common with the brave Boston folk - teabaggers are bullies, cowards, hypocrites - they have more in common with the Westboro folk than they do the historical Boston protesters

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Sun May 26, 2013, 02:57 PM

Dragonfli (10,622 posts)

12. Worse, they are stooges for oligarchs and the exact opposite of the namesake they would hijack

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.

They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party.

The teabaggers know jack about history and would have been thugs in the employ of BEIC back then, helping them to maintain monopolies and benefit from colonial taxes rather than paying a corporate tax to the crown.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 03:03 PM

Skittles (134,494 posts)