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   wmconelly said, 4 months ago

   In the middle — the MIDDLE — of The Great Depression Congress set about gold standarding the economy back into ‘balance.’ The Great Depression then lasted until the WWII.

   If I need to work to live, and I need to commute to work, I do NOT sell my VW car to put — momentarily — my gas bill into balance. I borrow, live frugally, string out gas payments, and plan to move up the income chain during better times. Better times are coming. The elephant should let go and let ’em come on.
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Actually the TEA Party is lifting the country. Robbin’ O and his merry band of liberal dems are dragging down the country.
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   Darsan54 said, 4 months ago

   A truer comment I have never seen.
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   Darsan54 said, 4 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   You mean all those “takers” on Social Security, Medicare, using those government roads and sewers, eating safe, disease free govt. inspected food from the grocery or depending on bloated government police and fire protection?
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   ARodney said, 4 months ago

   The tea party is going to cost us a million jobs or more by forcing the sequester, which would never have even been proposed in a smart (non-GOP) congress. It’s a dumb solution for a nonexistent problem. Just the GOP’s cup of tea.
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   rickf1968 said, 4 months ago

   Liberal morons blame it all on the GOP – look at California as a prime example of what liberals do everyone with a right mind is lleaving that state – we need a clean slate across the board GOP & Dem representatives alike have ruined this economy & country. Jackass is the Dem mascot And Elephants weigh down the GOP..
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   Omnius said, 4 months ago

   The tea baggers, the new anchor babies! Just love how tea baggers are becoming the most hated people in our country. They should all be rounded up and deported to Somalia, which is just what they want to turn the USA into.
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   Dycel said, 4 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Very funny bus bunny very funny!
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   echoraven said, 4 months ago

   Always thought it was these damn taxes and depressed wages keeping me down, not some ideology that seems to be losing relevance by the day…
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    Uncle Joe said, 4 months ago

    @

    The Tea Party is losing respect & in decline:
    
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2013/just_8_now_say_they_are_tea_party_members
    
    Why don’t you try making a factual statement sometime, Howgee?
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    Radish said, 4 months ago

    ^ from above
    Only eight percent (8%) now say they are members of the Tea Party, down from a high of 24% in April 2010 just after passage of the national health care law.

    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 30% of Likely U.S. Voters now have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party. Half (49%) of voters have an unfavorable view of the movement. Twenty-one percent (21%) are undecided.
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    Rickapolis said, 4 months ago

    The GOP will continue to be the ‘STUPID party’ until they recognize the ignorance of the tea-baggers. They’ll NEVER win a presidency while they carry those idiots along with them. That they haven’t learned this yet is exactly why they are still the STUPID party.
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    mickey1339 said, 4 months ago

    @Mr. King

    “They vote out any tax increases and vote in spending for anything they want.”
    

    
    King, our most recent election shows you how incorrect you are. 2 propositions passed the ballot that raised both sales and income taxes to the highest in the nation (income taxes). Referendum in California is just one element of the process, and doesn’t have near the success rate of the propositions. Also, the courts often intervene (as with ban on gay marriage) to further complicate the process. This process is not for the exclusive use of the republicans, is constantly employed by democrats as well and is not a simple process to “revoke” a law. The link is from KCET, our L.A. PBS station. Oh yes, I’m a long time resident of Southern California and very politically active on a state/local level. I am a libertarian, not a rep. or dem, although I have voted for both parties at times, depending on the candidate or proposition involved.
    

    
    http://www.kcet.org/news/ballotbrief/ballot-measures/propositions-initiatives-and-referendums-whats-the-difference.html
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    Sky_Soldier said, 4 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    From your comment you clearly know nothing of reality.
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    Gary McSpook said, 4 months ago

    The Tea Party does little to promote anything, they simply stand in the way of progress, rather like logs jamming a river. The right wingers have always wanted to progress to halt, or even regress, so that it would be like it was in their “good old days.” Problem is, their good old days were terrible days for others like women, minorities, gays, non-Christians, etc. The right wing will always drag down this country, for they have no new ideas, they simply cling to old, sadly out-dated ideas.
    Progress will progress, fortunately, but it will always be “two steps forward, one step back” because of these loads.
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