More educated? Uh-oh where's Topspin with his maybe they aren't GEDers comments?
Here's an interesting article about the Tea Party. It was too long to post so I cut out the middle in the interest of brevity, but it's a good article. The last few paragraphs, bolded, indicate there may yet be hope for some of these folks.
Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll...
The 18 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45...
And while most Republicans say they are “dissatisfied” with Washington, Tea Party supporters are more likely to classify themselves as “angry.”
Tea Party supporters’ fierce animosity toward Washington, and the president in particular, is rooted in deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich...
The overwhelming majority of supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites — compared with 11 percent of the general public.
They are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people...
And nearly three-quarters of those who favor smaller government said they would prefer it even if it meant spending on domestic programs would be cut.
But in follow-up interviews, Tea Party supporters said they did not want to cut Medicare or Social Security — the biggest domestic programs, suggesting instead a focus on “waste.”
Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits.
Others could not explain the contradiction.
“That’s a conundrum, isn’t it?” asked Jodine White, 62, of Rocklin, Calif. “I don’t know what to say. Maybe I don’t want smaller government. I guess I want smaller government and my Social Security.” She added, “I didn’t look at it from the perspective of losing things I need. I think I’ve changed my mind.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us...15poll.html?hp
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
More educated? Uh-oh where's Topspin with his maybe they aren't GEDers comments?
I would imagine that they're not off by much, and that it's mostly because they don't have any minorities in their midst.
Rich white people hating on brothers, there's a comment that tea baggers are twice as likely as general population to think Obama favors blacks over whites. SHOCKING lol
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
there are a lot of college educated racist, southern man is a great example of how you can do 4 yrs of essentially technical training in college and remain a narrow minded moron.
The stone that the builder refused
Will always be the head corner stone
Not to mention that you can have both.... a smaller government AND government services. Obama was even able to find $500 billion in waste in Medicare. Eliminate that waste and the government gets smaller while still providing the benefits.
That said, the boomers are a bunch of selfish bastards in general.
Quote from Cypress:
"Scientists don't use "averages". Maybe armchair supertools on message boards ascribe some meaning to "averages" between two random data points. And maybe clueless amatuers "draw a straight line" through two random end data points to define a "trend". Experts don't.
They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "
More selfish than boomers? Yeah, the gen-Xrs. They have a disproportionate sense of entitlement and enter the work force thinking they deserve to start at the top and not pay any dues. A real work ethic ended with the boomers.
As far as the woman in question, you call her selfish and I call her confused, but with a glimmer of potential. At least she recognizes the dichotomy between what she wants and what the TP advocates. If the TP were honest, they'd admit that their concerns started years ago during the previous administration, but since they overwhelmingly vote Republican, they're displacing their anger on the current administration.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
And I say this not because I'm a member of Gen X which I am but competition is not even close for the Baby Boomers (which my parents are members of - sorry mom & dad but you count in that group as well). First Baby Boomers want to rebel against the Greatest Generation? Watching anything on WWII and people of that group sacrificed compared to their kids who wanted to do nothing but hang around and smoke dope all day while claiming to 'change the world'. (Yes I know, very large generalizations being made here).
So with all due respect I say f*ck the baby boomers. We have enough partisan b.s. back and forth on this board everyday well we can change it up for the moment and have a little age wars.
The tea party isn't saying you can't have social security. It is saying we have unsustainable debts coming due in medicare and social security that need to be dealt with and that is fact. It's not an either or situation where you say if I support what the tea party believes then I don't want my social security.
I can agree with that analysis at least around my area. We pay for our own "domestic services" anyways. All the towns here fund our own libraries, schools, community centers, senior centers, sports boosters, etc.. The state income tax and all the allocated fed tax to the state goes to the dirty cities so they can get free libraries, schools, and so on.
Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?
OBAMA: I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes, I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes.
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