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So who here believes the Tea Party cares about working people and the poor? (Original Post) Actor May 2016 OP
The working people and the poor are a nuisance Matrosov May 2016 #1
Well well we have the Wellstone ruled May 2016 #2
What is right and what is wrong pinebox May 2016 #3
So you say yes. Actor May 2016 #8
I think you're fishing in the wrong pond. TexasProgresive May 2016 #4
The teabaggers are the New American Bunde. Mendocino May 2016 #5
*here*? i think you're drilling a dry hole 0rganism May 2016 #6
What? Iggo May 2016 #7
I believe they actually DO care about working people. Poor, or otherwise. Captain Stern May 2016 #9
Not really, they will push their own family under the bus whenever they can Actor May 2016 #10
Some do, yes. Source: I personally know some (although they wouldn't call themselves... Shandris May 2016 #11
Working people and the poor have only themselves to count on tralala May 2016 #12
 

Matrosov

(1,098 posts)
1. The working people and the poor are a nuisance
Thu May 19, 2016, 02:49 PM
May 2016

In the eyes of the Tea Party. The whole motivation behind the Tea Party wanting lower taxes and less government spending is so that their money won't have to be 'wasted' on 'those people.'

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Well well we have the
Thu May 19, 2016, 02:54 PM
May 2016

best statement of the day so far,TeaBillies caring about anyone other than themselves or people in poverty,like the humor. Have teabilly relies,and they believe if poor people did not get their FreeBe's,they would just go away some where. Still have not figured out where the somewhere is,does anyone know?

 

pinebox

(5,761 posts)
3. What is right and what is wrong
Thu May 19, 2016, 02:56 PM
May 2016

Does the tea party care about the working poor?
Define your version of the working poor because they look out for their own which is gun toting Christian conservatives who live in a fear based world but outside that bubble you're on your own.



TexasProgresive

(12,148 posts)
4. I think you're fishing in the wrong pond.
Thu May 19, 2016, 03:12 PM
May 2016

I don't believe anyone here would agree with your question. Just saying.

Mendocino

(7,430 posts)
5. The teabaggers are the New American Bunde.
Thu May 19, 2016, 03:25 PM
May 2016

They would deny the poor food, education, health care/insurance, lodging and anything else that could possibly benefit them in hopes that they just go away and die. They would stick them in camps, feed them sawdust, work them till they are dead and sell the remains to fertilizer companies if they could get away with it.

0rganism

(23,855 posts)
6. *here*? i think you're drilling a dry hole
Thu May 19, 2016, 03:29 PM
May 2016

i'd be very surprised if anyone posting here believes such a thing, or admits to believing so

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
11. Some do, yes. Source: I personally know some (although they wouldn't call themselves...
Thu May 19, 2016, 05:53 PM
May 2016

...that now, they did 'back then'). For those not familiar with me, I was raised conservative. Eventually I reached the age of reason.

Their ideas are, predictably, different from many of ours, but since most of them ARE the working people and the poor, yeah, they do seem to be pretty sincere (again, referring to the ones I personally know. I don't speak for anyone I don't personally know on this topic).

But overall? Of course not. They were coopted less than 6 weeks after birth. No actual political organization cares about the poor.

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