[Dragaera] Off-Topic Discussion: Occupy Wall Street

[Philip Hart]

> The real idea behind the tea party is simple: we want a balanced budget
> without increased taxes.

Like we had under Clinton - well, actually that was a surplus.  Which was 
a bad thing, per Greenspan et al.  And of course that was before two wars 
costing multiple trillions of dollars.

Per wiki:
In advance of a new edition of their book American Grace, David E. 
Campbell of Notre Dame and Robert D. Putnam of Harvard published in a The 
New York Times opinion the results of their research into political 
attitudes, finding that Tea Party supporters had been largely "highly 
partisan Republicans" (and not "nonpartisan political neophytes"). 
Additionally, according to Campbell and Putnam, their rank and file is 
more concerned about "putting God in government" than it is with trying to 
shrink government.[96]

A University of Washington poll of 1,695 registered voters in the state of 
Washington reported that 73% of Tea Party supporters disapprove of Obama's 
policy of engaging with Muslim countries, 88% approve of the controversial 
immigration law recently enacted in Arizona, 82% do not believe that gay 
and lesbian couples should have the legal right to marry, and that about 
52% believed that "lesbians and gays have too much political 
power".[88][89]

A New York Times/CBS News Poll during the election revealed that only a 
small percentage of Tea Party supporters considered global warming a 
serious problem, much less than the portion of the general public that 
does.


> health care law

The Heritage Foundation inspired, leading-Republican-candidate 
implemented, conservative-industries-lobbyist written health insurance 
law.  Plus voluntary end-of-life counseling = "death panels".

> despite the way that the CBO analysis was gamed)

And Obama's birth certificate is a forgery.  Thanks a ton to whoever got 
us into this.  Well, it's easy to filter, so never mind.