Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: boomerang
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
What? Did Congress raise taxes and I somehow missed it?
Well all spending increases are fundamentally tax increases, because we'll have to pay for it sooner or later through reduced services or increased taxes.
Of course the government has been racking up debt for years, and on far far stupider things than Obama has decided to spend money on, but now that stupid and easily led people have been whipped into a frenzy, we'll have some tax day tea parties. Spend a few trillion blowing up Iraq? "fuck yeah Amurrikuh!" Spend a few trillion on rebuilding our country and saving our economy? Tea party time!
If there's some kind of argument in there, it's buried too deep in all the drama to make it out. What I get out of it though, is that Democratic overspending = good, Republican overspending = bad. How did I do?
I also get the impression that liberals find tea party protests worrisome. I know they worry the media. Enough to where they don't even cover them.
Yeah, that's why when you type 'tea party msnbc' or 'tea party New York Times' into Google you end up with several mentions of them on TV, on the internet, or in the newspaper. I'm sure it's because they are so scared of them.
By the way, who is 'they'? I'd very much like to know.
You did terribly on reading and understanding my post though. I mean it was only 4 sentences. True there was one long one with a lot of commas in it, but I'm sure you can parse it if you try. My post contained no statement of value whatsoever on spending (or 'overspending) and if it were good or not in my own opinion. I stated I believed the
targets of Obama's spending were far better than the
targets of Bush's spending, but that's a far different matter. My post was describing the notable absence of these tea parties in past years when our government was also racking up large amounts of debt, and I am willing to bet significant numbers of the people who will participate them were enthusiastic supporters of the previous administration at some point.