All My so-called "friends" are GOP/Tea baggers

[Anonymous]

the tea party is on record at wanting to cut defense. it is the mainstream republicans who want to keep defense off the table. clearly you do not know what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

The tea party is the republican party and the republican Party is the tea party. These tp'ers alway voted republican and always will. Bush ran up the bills, they were happy. They only appeared after there was a democrat in office. They will not touch ss and Medicare, to many of their own depend on government hand outs! Look at their demographic, for the most old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the tea party is on record at wanting to cut defense. it is the mainstream republicans who want to keep defense off the table. clearly you do not know what you are talking about.

THE Tea Party? Exactly who speaks for the one true Tea Party? Do you have any cite for what you just claimed? If you're going to cite Rand Paul, he's exactly the kind of libertarian to which I referred. Who are all the tea party leaders in favor of cutting defense?

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/us/politics/27pentagon.html


http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/taxes/tea-party-leaders-support-defense-spending-cuts/19813416/

http://www.newsmax.com/US/TeaParty-democrats-republican-gop/2011/02/23/id/387177

gist:

Republicans have mixed views as to whether defense spending should be cut. And some senior House Republicans who oppose reductions are concerned that tea party-backed GOP freshmen will unite with liberal Democrats to take a knife to the defense budget, The Hill reports.

That already happened in miniature last week, when most freshman Republicans joined liberal Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, to dump $450 million from a project for an alternate engine for the F-35 fighter jet.

Veteran Republican lawmakers were shocked that some of the freshmen didn’t know that their districts would benefit from the project.

“One thing we noticed during the alternate engine debate was the new members just did not know about the nuances of the program — they were not informed about the history of the debate,” one House GOP aide told The Hill.

Read more on Newsmax.com: GOP Fears Tea Party-Dem Union to Cut Defense
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[Anonymous]

I appreciate you finding those cites.

I'd be very pleased to see TPers go strongly libertarian - I have a lot more respect for the latter.

So - I ask this sincerely - if the TPers really are in favor of cutting the military, why aren't they more vocal about it? I don't see those signs at rallies or see clips of people shouting that angrily.

[Anonymous]

where has your head been buried? all the tea party folks talk about is the deficit and the federal budget, and the defense spending is a huge part of the budget.

99% of the tea party movement is simply fiscal - making govt smaller.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:please give me a few good reasons as to why we need a federal department of education? where are these federal elementary schools or federal universities?

Hope you don't have any special needs children! Pretty much all the SPED money comes from the feds. SPED and Title I funding (for poor kids) is really the bulk of federal education spending. The last couple years, there has been more competitive grants, but that is still a tiny percentage.

I have a good friend who is super conservative whose daughter is SPED. She is always going on about too much government spending and people who depend on the government. Meanwhile, her family uses more federal dollars than anyone I know. I wish all the best for her daughter, so I don't care, but it's just ironic.

Actual federal funding (again mostly for SPED though IDEA, and Title I) only makes up something like 7% of a school's budget.

But, of course, most tea baggers could care less about people who are in any different than them, so I doubt this will change your mind.

[Anonymous]

I am totally fine with moderate Republicans or maybe even Libertarians, because they're principled. But the tea party really does seem to be racist. I am having a hard time continuing to respect my friends who feel this way. Republicans can be very smart, and many are. But if you're a tea partier and a Palin supporter, you MUST have a few screws loose. Like they really cannot be smart. Can't emphasize that enough.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:please give me a few good reasons as to why we need a federal department of education? where are these federal elementary schools or federal universities?

Hope you don't have any special needs children! Pretty much all the SPED money comes from the feds. SPED and Title I funding (for poor kids) is really the bulk of federal education spending. The last couple years, there has been more competitive grants, but that is still a tiny percentage.

I have a good friend who is super conservative whose daughter is SPED. She is always going on about too much government spending and people who depend on the government. Meanwhile, her family uses more federal dollars than anyone I know. I wish all the best for her daughter, so I don't care, but it's just ironic.

Actual federal funding (again mostly for SPED though IDEA, and Title I) only makes up something like 7% of a school's budget.

But, of course, most tea baggers could care less about people who are in any different than them, so I doubt this will change your mind.

sorry, cannot afford that any longer. $14T in debt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:please give me a few good reasons as to why we need a federal department of education? where are these federal elementary schools or federal universities?

Hope you don't have any special needs children! Pretty much all the SPED money comes from the feds. SPED and Title I funding (for poor kids) is really the bulk of federal education spending. The last couple years, there has been more competitive grants, but that is still a tiny percentage.

I have a good friend who is super conservative whose daughter is SPED. She is always going on about too much government spending and people who depend on the government. Meanwhile, her family uses more federal dollars than anyone I know. I wish all the best for her daughter, so I don't care, but it's just ironic.

Actual federal funding (again mostly for SPED though IDEA, and Title I) only makes up something like 7% of a school's budget.

But, of course, most tea baggers could care less about people who are in any different than them, so I doubt this will change your mind.

sorry, cannot afford that any longer. $14T in debt.

Hmm, sounds like what we really need is to raise taxes. Are you in favor of that? Or do you only support those changes that don't impact you personally?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:please give me a few good reasons as to why we need a federal department of education? where are these federal elementary schools or federal universities?

Hope you don't have any special needs children! Pretty much all the SPED money comes from the feds. SPED and Title I funding (for poor kids) is really the bulk of federal education spending. The last couple years, there has been more competitive grants, but that is still a tiny percentage.

I have a good friend who is super conservative whose daughter is SPED. She is always going on about too much government spending and people who depend on the government. Meanwhile, her family uses more federal dollars than anyone I know. I wish all the best for her daughter, so I don't care, but it's just ironic.

Actual federal funding (again mostly for SPED though IDEA, and Title I) only makes up something like 7% of a school's budget.

But, of course, most tea baggers could care less about people who are in any different than them, so I doubt this will change your mind.

sorry, cannot afford that any longer. $14T in debt.

Hmm, sounds like what we really need is to raise taxes. Are you in favor of that? Or do you only support those changes that don't impact you personally?

yes, obviously we need to raise taxes. but we also need to cut $750B from the federal budget, so cannot afford the above. do you realize our balance sheet is worse than Spain and almost as bad as Greece? it could be lights out for our kids if we don't cut spending and raise taxes asap.

[Anonymous]

I could probably not continue a friendship with a tea party supporter. The social conservatism really bugs me, particularly when it is paired with the "get out of my wallet" rhetoric. And, I don't think I will ever be able to get the terribly stupid and/or nutty tea party candidate statements out of my head.

I am friends with democrats, republicans and libertarians. I'm moderate on some issues and liberal on others. I may even be considered conservative on a few things. I don't have a lot of patience for people that follow either party without ever questioning it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:please give me a few good reasons as to why we need a federal department of education? where are these federal elementary schools or federal universities?

Hope you don't have any special needs children! Pretty much all the SPED money comes from the feds. SPED and Title I funding (for poor kids) is really the bulk of federal education spending. The last couple years, there has been more competitive grants, but that is still a tiny percentage.

I have a good friend who is super conservative whose daughter is SPED. She is always going on about too much government spending and people who depend on the government. Meanwhile, her family uses more federal dollars than anyone I know. I wish all the best for her daughter, so I don't care, but it's just ironic.

Actual federal funding (again mostly for SPED though IDEA, and Title I) only makes up something like 7% of a school's budget.

But, of course, most tea baggers could care less about people who are in any different than them, so I doubt this will change your mind.

sorry, cannot afford that any longer. $14T in debt.

Well, the kids will still be there and will still grow up to be adults, they just won't be as self-sufficient. So, we will just end up paying for them through some entitlement program. I'd rather pay for it up front, so the kids are more successful and so they're not my problem (and yours!) later.

Hmm, sounds like what we really need is to raise taxes. Are you in favor of that? Or do you only support those changes that don't impact you personally?

yes, obviously we need to raise taxes. but we also need to cut $750B from the federal budget, so cannot afford the above. do you realize our balance sheet is worse than Spain and almost as bad as Greece? it could be lights out for our kids if we don't cut spending and raise taxes asap.

[Anonymous]

Allegedly the Tea Party supports fiscal responsibility, but many of the Tea Partiers I know of aren't really willing to say what cuts they'd support, outside of the usual "spcialist" programs. When I asked my friends to balance the budget using the NYTimes Budget Puzzle, none of them would do it. One of my friends was quite vociferous about the budget, but when Obama decided to cut a NASA program in her town, she cried foul. most of my other "friends" who claim to be Tea Partiers really just wanted a platform for spewing their anti-minority or anti-immigrant drivel. And then you have Sarah Palin, the Tea Party darling. She leaves me without words...

[Anonymous]

socialist, not spcialist