Reply #24: The Tea Party types I know aren't poor.....

[Jade Fox]

especially by world standards. In fact, they have little compassion themselves for the truly poor, who they write off as lazy.

The Tea Partiers I know are whites who have less than they expected (and probably deserve) as they head into their retirement years. But their political rage is all about themselves. And yes, they are racist as hell when you scratch the surface, and are threatened by the loss of status automatically granted to them as white people.

Does the Tea Party talk at all about poverty and job loss? Not that I've noticed. It's all crap about "Socialism" and "Big Government", which is code for "We don't want to pay taxes."