Jorge Said:

Can Palin and/or other tea party activists call Obama unamerican, without also implying that Palin is the sa?

We Answered:

Please educate me..... When Palin was governor I was not aware she raised taxes..... I need a little more than your saying "she did the same thing"

When Obama ran for state office.... he promised to lower taxes..... he never even tried
When Obama ran for Congress ..... he promised to lower taxes..... he never even tried
When Obama ran for President ....he promised to lower taxes on 95% of America..... now he says that will have to wait and he has directly raised taxes on ALL of America..... destroyed a multimillion dollar sports fishing and hunting industry..... crippled wildlife conservation programs.... force corporate America to lose 94 billion dollars which will result in higher prices and significant job losses.... is about to destroy over 9 million jobs alone in Florida....
Wasted a years time concentrating on 32 million people who might one day have a problem.... and ignored 40+ million unemployed Americans in trouble right NOW....
He has taken FDR's failed policies and used them to pay off political supporters and done NOTHING to create REAL jobs...... turned welfare into workfare..... not a solution but the creation of a dependent subculture......

Did Palin do that too.....First I heard of that?

Vanessa Said:

Tea party activists...where is your outrage over the Goldman Sachs debacle?

We Answered:

Come on you know it, I know it, almost everyone knows it. The one issue they don't like to see brought up is racial. It's what the movement is really about and the one issue that they know they have no defense against. So they keep making up new issues, rehash old issues and flood the media, radio, tv, internet in the hopes that holes in their protestations don't let in too much light.
Could you imagine the scope of the financial meltdown had Bush been allowed to push through the privatization of Social Security?

Crystal Said:

Tea party federal budget plan?

We Answered:

Removing more money from the private sector at a time when the private sector needs as much as possible will increase the strain on existing entitlements.

What is needed is major regulatory changes, elimination of several federal departments, scaled in elimination of entitlement programs, and a tax structure that is more competitive in relation to foreign counterparts. Anyone proposal that does not include those factors are not serious attempts to address the problems we face. Real solutions aren't pretty, but they are necessary because of the excesses Progressive politicians implemented over the last century. It took decades to build the problem, it will take decades to fix it. The sooner we start, the better off we'll be.

The first step is to eliminate every federal department that is not Constitutionally justifiable. If it is not enumerated or "necessary and proper" to carrying out an enumerated power - its gone. End of story. If you want it back - pass an amendment to the Constitution.

The budget proposed by the Obama Administration last week proposed spending $3,800,000,000,000. Their anticipated revenue for the fiscal year is $2,240,000,000,000. That leaves a deficit of $1,560,000,000,000. There isn't a tax increase in the world that could raise enough to cover that difference and not completely destroy the productive capacity of the economy.

The time has come for Keynesian economics to assume its rightful place in history right next to the Mercantilist system on which it is based. Keynes' assertion that deficits, inflation, and destruction of the productive capacity don't matter because "In the long run we're all dead" wasn't good enough in the 1930s and we are paying the price today. Obama advisers Romer and Summers have both noted in their academic work that the "multiplier" for direct government spending is less than 1. They conveniently forget that fact when they take government jobs.

First on the chopping block: Dept of Education ($71.5 Billion), Dept of Energy ($28.4 Billion), Dept of Homeland Security (cut from $53.7 Billion to around $25 Billion), Dept of Housing and Urban Development ($47.5 Billion), Dept of Labor ($116.7 Billion includes 'Stimulus' Spending), Corps of Engineers - Civil Works ($6 Billion), NASA ($17.7 Billion), National Science Foundation ($7 Billion), Small Business Administration ($23.9 Billion), Corporation for National Community Service ($1.4 Billion), EPA ($9.2 Billion). Totaling a savings of around $286.5 Billion. If states and private charities wish to pick up the vacuum that eliminating these departments MAY leave, so be it. Otherwise, the 9th and 10th amendments specifically left responsibility for them to the states.

*Social Security Administration and Dept of Health and Human Services would be phased out as the programs were eliminated. These two departments alone cost approximately $800 and $900 Billion respectively. That is 76% of collected revenue for this budget. The full force of the Baby Boomers hasn't even hit the budget yet. In short - we can't sustain this level of spending. They are the biggest portion of our population. As they retire, revenue will fall and expenditure will increase. Social Security will have to be indexed to life expectancy as it was when the program started. It was created with the intention that half of the payers would never receive a dime and that everyone paying in would strategically save so that the system was only a supplement.

**TARP should be eliminated immediately and all loans given called in. That is why we have bankruptcy. So the smaller banks can take the place of the ones that grow too big and collapse under their own weight when they make bad decisions.

All other departments should be cut by at least 30% Defense from $718.8 Billion to $503.6 Billion. Interior from $13.1 Billion to $9.17 Billion. Justice from $31.3 Billion to $21.9. National Intelligence Program is entirely off budget, I can't make suggestions. State Department from $53.8 Billion to $37.1 Billion. Department of Transportation from $75.3 Billion to $24.8 Billion. Treasury from $93.4 to $37.4 Billion (Tax code simplifications would eliminate much of the IRS burden).

Spending cuts noted would lower the deficit by $638.23 Billion to $921.8 Billion. Revenue increases from increased economic activity would likely still leave a deficit of around $450 Billion in the first year, $100 Billion the second and surpluses thereafter as the full effect of the changes took effect and the US once again became the beacon of economic activity it was in the past.

Spending should be frozen at those levels until revenue justifies any expansion.

Alan Said:

Tea Party vs Coffee Party vs Cider Party?

We Answered:

Tea party, coffee party, apple cider, it does not matter, it matters that the government takes notice and starts listening to the people and starts to serve the people.
The Tea party seems to be effective as long as there is no violence the government can not label them as radicals and discredit them.
About time people are voicing there opinions and calling for the government to listen, if the government keeps on the way they are doing the Tea party may turn into a lynching party.

Cynthia Said:

Does this sum up a day in the life of a Tea Party activist?

We Answered:

I'm a Conservative, but I have to admit that this made me chuckle.

George Said:

can Palin and/or other tea party activists call Obama unamerican, without also implying that Palin is the sa?

We Answered:

Shriekin Sarah is a entertainer not no politician.

Heidi Said:

Is the Tea Party activists more christian oriented?

We Answered:

The billionaire Koch family is providing the money to fund the Tea Party movement. Check them out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinio…

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/koch-in…

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/…