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Hacp

Hacp

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40% doesn't seem like an unreasonable number if you include Federal, state, and local spending. I think the interns were asking the wrong questions here.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/#usgs302a

Confirmed.
Total spending 2010--------6.5 trillion.
GDP 2010 ----------- 14.8 trillion
 
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paperfist

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Martin said:
While I wasn't terribly surprised at this, I still found it a bit humourous. Basically are they are just angry and venting at some make-believe enemy.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/18/tea-party-ignorant-taxes-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html
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Doesn't everyone fudge the numbers? I think I heard Obama say today that we'll save a trillion dollars over the next decade if his health care plan passes.

Make believe enemies? Oh like Obama's nemesis the insurance companies?
 
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Martin

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Hacp said:
40% doesn't seem like an unreasonable number if you include Federal, state, and local spending. I think the interns were asking the wrong questions here.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/#usgs302a

Confirmed.
Total spending 2010--------6.5 trillion.
GDP 2010 ----------- 14.8 trillion
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. Tea Partyers were asked how much the federal government gets in taxes as a percentage of the gross domestic product
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So they can't understand the question? I just called them ignorant, you're calling them stupid.
 
Danube

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Weird article. People are worried about their personal budgets which they know very well. Administering a quiz about federal statistics kind of misses the point that people are also being crushed by state, county and local taxes. They are getting whomped on from every side (and now many aren't even getting their tax returns). NY, NJ, CA - unions are bleeding states dry. The linked article is more heat than light.
 
Hacp

Hacp

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Martin said:
So they can't understand the question? I just called them ignorant, you're calling them stupid.
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The tea-partiers were probably talking about all government including state and local but the interns had a hard time understanding what the hell they meant because young people these days are brainwashed into being government loving, gun hating, environmental wackos.
 
JEDIYoda

JEDIYoda

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Hacp said:
The tea-partiers were probably talking about all government including state and local but the interns had a hard time understanding what the hell they meant because young people these days are brainwashed into being government loving, gun hating, environmental wackos.
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Now your being stoopid....rofl
 
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cubby1223

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What is more ignorant:

"The Right" who don't all know the exact percentage of federal taxes to GDP?

or

"The Left" who believes this health care reform bill will achieve universal care and reduce the deficit?
 
theeedude

theeedude

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Teabaggers are the anti-intellectual wing of the anti-intellectual Republican party. Ignorance is a point of pride for them, because they think it makes them "simple folk" as opposed to "elitists" in academia.
 
Tristicus

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You can claim all you want of a tea party member's ignorance, and you can claim all you want that they are stupid. But you're ignoring the obvious fact that your prized administration is running the white house like a bunch of criminals, and you're completely blind to it.
So, who's stupider?
 
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Genx87

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senseamp said:
Teabaggers are the anti-intellectual wing of the anti-intellectual Republican party. Ignorance is a point of pride for them, because they think it makes them "simple folk" as opposed to "elitists" in academia.
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What did Pelosi have to eat yesterday?
 
umbrella39

umbrella39

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Tristicus said:
You can claim all you want of a tea party member's ignorance, and you can claim all you want that they are stupid. But you're ignoring the obvious fact that your prized administration is running the white house like a bunch of criminals, and you're completely blind to it.
So, who's stupider?
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IMO, people who use the word, stupider.

History will show who the real villains are despite all the FUD, bullshit, and outright lies being peddled.
 
Siddhartha

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I question the statistical rigor of the poll. I would not draw any conclusions about the Tea Party based on this "poll".
 
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Moonbeam

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These folk may be mental Pygmies but their anger is real. Who among us knows how to properly channel his rage?
 
Tristicus

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Perknose said:
Lol, set yourself up much? :eek:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2060180
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Okay. I'll now post a picture of a cow. That means I am now the cow. Because every picture a person posts has to have them inside it.

cow.jpg


I am now cow.
 
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Martin

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Moonbeam said:
These folk may be mental Pygmies but their anger is real. Who among us knows how to properly channel his rage?
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Its true, and mocking them, while quite easy, isn't very constructive at all. But what's one to do? If you say the current economic woes are largely the result of unrestrained free-marketism, they'll call you a socialist. If you tell them socialized healthcare can drastically cut down costs, they'll call you a communist.
 
bamacre

bamacre

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Siddhartha said:
I question the statistical rigor of the poll. I would not draw any conclusions about the Tea Party based on this "poll".
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Data from 57 responses isn't much to go by, especially considering the diversity of the tea party movement.

I actually went to one of their meetings. Fairly diverse crowd, a few mainstream Republicans, a few conspiracy theorists, a couple of "Paulbots." Some people who spoke sounded fairly educated, some didn't. One particular guy I wanted to smack.
 
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