UCLA-TEA Party study

[Canceled2]

To the detriment of America. The tea party is an uninformed and know nothing group. They don't even know that Obama didn't raise taxes and that he lowered THEIRS.

They call for less government...the 'less' they are calling for is why our economy crashed & burned.

They know he did raise taxes and they know he has increaed spending and they know he's an incompetent arrogant boob

 

[Onceler]

LOL poor liberals have to attack Glenn Beck. Have you even watched his show lately? Even Alex Jones said he was shocked that Beck was exposing the NWO banker conspiracies.

You are rabid partisan in this picture

Beck is 100% demagogue & hack.

Did Dano take over your user name or something? How can you make fun of liberals who don't think, and then defend someone like Beck?

Hey - that Mikey Moore is 100% objective, dontchya know...

 

[cawacko]

CATO was founded by one of the biggest polluters on the planet and it depends on funded from the same cartels and corporations as all the other so called 'libertarian' think tanks. Maybe they haven't been parroting enough right wing propaganda, because their funding decreased. It is called persuasion.

Cato was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch, the billionaire co-owner of Koch Industries; the largest privately owned company in the United States.

Corporate sponsors

In 2006 Cato raised approximately $612,000 from the following 26 corporate supporters:

* Altria (the report identifies Altria Corporate Services as the contributor)
* American Petroleum Institute
* Amerisure Companies
* Amgen
* Chicago Mercantile Exchange
* Comcast Corporation
* Consumer Electronic Association
* Ebay Inc
* ExxonMobil
* FedEx Corporation
* Freedom Communications
* General Motors
* Honda North America
* Korea International Trade Association
* Microsoft
* National Association of Software and Service Companies
* Pepco Holdings Inc.
* R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
* TimeWarner
* Toyota Motor Corporation
* UST Inc
* Verisign
* Verizon Communications
* Visa USA Inc
* Volkswagen of America
* Wal-Mart Stores

By 2008, Cato's corporate support had fallen dramatically, to $187,000, about 1 percent of the institute's revenue for the year. Corporate supporters in 2008 were:

* Altria (the report identifies Altria Corporate Services as the contributor)
* Amerisure Companies
* FedEx Corporation
* Freedom Communications
* R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
* Volkswagen of America
* Wal-Mart Stores

Foundation support

The Cato Institute has been supported by:

* Castle Rock Foundation (Formerly Coors Foundation)
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Earhart Foundation
* JM Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Koch Family Foundations
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Scaife Foundations (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)

In its 2006 annual report, Cato listed that it had received funding from 72 foundations during the year, amounting to $3,113,000 or 15% of total income[/QUOTE

I'm familiar with the group. I've donated money to them and met with some of their people. I've read them for years. You obviously haven't if you think they toe some right-wing line. They are libertarians. Go check their stance on Iraq and Afghanistan if you don't believe me.

 

[Bfgrn]

CATO was founded by one of the biggest polluters on the planet and it depends on funded from the same cartels and corporations as all the other so called 'libertarian' think tanks. Maybe they haven't been parroting enough right wing propaganda, because their funding decreased. It is called persuasion.

Cato was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch, the billionaire co-owner of Koch Industries; the largest privately owned company in the United States.

Corporate sponsors

In 2006 Cato raised approximately $612,000 from the following 26 corporate supporters:

* Altria (the report identifies Altria Corporate Services as the contributor)
* American Petroleum Institute
* Amerisure Companies
* Amgen
* Chicago Mercantile Exchange
* Comcast Corporation
* Consumer Electronic Association
* Ebay Inc
* ExxonMobil
* FedEx Corporation
* Freedom Communications
* General Motors
* Honda North America
* Korea International Trade Association
* Microsoft
* National Association of Software and Service Companies
* Pepco Holdings Inc.
* R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
* TimeWarner
* Toyota Motor Corporation
* UST Inc
* Verisign
* Verizon Communications
* Visa USA Inc
* Volkswagen of America
* Wal-Mart Stores

By 2008, Cato's corporate support had fallen dramatically, to $187,000, about 1 percent of the institute's revenue for the year. Corporate supporters in 2008 were:

* Altria (the report identifies Altria Corporate Services as the contributor)
* Amerisure Companies
* FedEx Corporation
* Freedom Communications
* R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
* Volkswagen of America
* Wal-Mart Stores

Foundation support

The Cato Institute has been supported by:

* Castle Rock Foundation (Formerly Coors Foundation)
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Earhart Foundation
* JM Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Koch Family Foundations
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Scaife Foundations (Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)

In its 2006 annual report, Cato listed that it had received funding from 72 foundations during the year, amounting to $3,113,000 or 15% of total income[/QUOTE

I'm familiar with the group. I've donated money to them and met with some of their people. I've read them for years. You obviously haven't if you think they toe some right-wing line. They are libertarians. Go check their stance on Iraq and Afghanistan if you don't believe me.

We won't have to worry about Iraq and Afghanistan if we follow Cato's beliefs on climate change. I call myself a JFK liberal and a Goldwater libertarian. But I am mostly a JFK liberal. I agree with libertarians on some issues, mostly about privacy and people like Ron Paul on ending our wars of imperialism.

A site I visit is Ludwig von Mises Institute. There are articles I strongly agree with, but more I vehemently disagree with. I found Harry Browne to be very enlighened on civil liberties.

But where I have is a HUGE chasm with libertarians is on economics. From the Civil War until the Great Depression we had their 'hands off' policies. It was a catastrophe for the common man. What we need today is what the New Deal did in the 30's...government regulations that prevent another meltdown, strong consumer protection and drastic election funding reform. We have already become a corporatocracy, and the horrible right wing activist court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission will quickly create a complete corporate coup d'état.

I am not very optimistic about our future.