On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, <jdavie...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > Thanks for that, Joel. The "Taxed Enough Already" (TEA) party movement has > been the unfortunate victim of a very successful smear campaign - partly > because it's managed to attract a handful of the wrong sorts of people, but > mostly because it's become a very real threat to the Washington > establishment. We "scum" are Freenet's best hope - as you can see, the > current, supposedly "tech-savvy" U.S. political administration hasn't lived > up to your expectations. >
I certainly don't think the tea party are scum, I just think that a lot of libertarians, who think that the tea party is about libertarianism, are going to get a rude awakening once they get into power, just as they did when the Republicans took over the house and congress in the mid-90s. Also, a lot of their positions are contradictory. They claim they oppose the deficit, yet they want a tax cut for people who don't need it, paid for by increasing the deficit. They oppose spending, yet supported the Bush tax cuts and the Iraq war, which together dwarf the combined effect of the recovery measures, tarp, and the economic downturn, in terms of their impact on the deficit. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: i...@sensearray.com Ph: +1 512 422 3588
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