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Show me another »Why didn't the tea partiers protest when Bush wanted to spend tax dollars on a moon base and a mission to Mars?
Since silence implies consent, can we assume that spending of tax dollars was A-OK? Granted, a moon base sounds cool...
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Wake-up. Bush is not the president - place the blame on your messiah and move on. YOUR tax dollars are going to go to faltering nations - nations that could care less about America - this entire thought is sickening to me and throws the Constitution in the trash. Unless we stop this madness America’s future will be forever gone. The government thinks they are such big shots right now - they are controlling everything they can and forcing businesses and banks to do whatever they want through their mob rule tactics.
As these corrupt politicians including Obama, Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Schumer, Rangel and the list goes on - as they manipulate the financial system and their own bank accounts the hard working tax payer is beginning to coil like a snake as we feel threatened by this tyrannical government and its Fascist leader Obama.
The entire country is upside down right now. Obama is running around the world making new alliances with the Communist dictators of the world, he is selling the soul of America to the other countries while mixing in apologies for the way we are and were. Obama has done more to destroy this country in three months than all of the dictators of the world have done in the last 200 years. o_O
As these corrupt politicians including Obama, Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Schumer, Rangel and the list goes on - as they manipulate the financial system and their own bank accounts the hard working tax payer is beginning to coil like a snake as we feel threatened by this tyrannical government and its Fascist leader Obama.
The entire country is upside down right now. Obama is running around the world making new alliances with the Communist dictators of the world, he is selling the soul of America to the other countries while mixing in apologies for the way we are and were. Obama has done more to destroy this country in three months than all of the dictators of the world have done in the last 200 years. o_O
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- Now they see how it is when the candidate of their choice loses. Ah, I dealt with that for 4 years.0% 0 Votes
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- I would much rather see my tax dollars burnt up in space rather than some bureaucrats crack pipe.
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0% 0 Votes - Another hypocritical progressive. Bush planned to fund this by shifting NASA funds around, not implementing higher taxes or borrowing money from future generations, as Obama did.
Secondly, NASA actually represents progress, as opposed to Obama's bailouts which keep afloat failing corporations at the tax payers expense. That's regressive politics, not progressive.
Owned0% 0 Votes - And why didn't they protest when Bush signed the initial bailout? Cause.. uhh.. if I'm not mistaken, that was him.0% 0 Votes
- I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.
The government has been abusing the taxpayer for a very long time. Ever since the income tax started in 1913. it is amazing. People did not get taxed until they made 50K, and only up to 7% (the average worker made $423/mo)
As government grows, so does spending. As spending grows, so goes taxes. Not necessarily income tax, but taxes none the less.
The current problem has been slowly building for 20+ years. It started out as a little heat, then a simmer, then a mild boil, then full fledged boiling over. It took time. A lot of these people are not typically involved in the political scene. They have finally decided they are not being represented in government, and they are fed up.
They are fed up with government, the political process, politicians, and the corruption that comes with all of it. The are people that voted republican, democrat, independent, third party, or did not vote at all.
The current message is going to the federal government. It is growing, about 200K this time around, next time who knows.
At this is not about Obama personally, this would have happened with McCain, or Clinton.
The real question is this, Why are you so happy to idly stand by and watch your children's or grandchildren's future be spent by the current generation, no matter who the president is?17% 1 Vote - So let me get this right.
You are more in favor of studying why hogs smell bad in Iowa than in space science and the many inventions that come out of those programs?
You are more interested in understanding the mating patterns of field mice in the bay area than in understanding space?
You are more interested in building a memorial to Woodstock than space science?
No one complained about the thousands of lives saved in Africa by Bush spending 100's of millions on AIDs research and prevention. You did not even see it mentioned in the media!
If you do not understand how much of an economic disaster this president has caused in such a short time, you will learn in a few years. He has made everyone forget about the Bush spending. Obama has made Bush look like an accountant!
FYI, we did protest gas prices in Silicon Valley when Clinton was president.0% 0 Votes - Speaking as a tea drinker and a Bush supporter, it might be that it was money invested in a semi private enterprise, which in the past has show about a $58 to $1 direct return. The indirect return is incalculable.
Moneys spent on these endeavors are responsible for major advances in fields from Medical to Nano Engineering.
Let's see our current administration wants to pay for young girls abortions, tax refunds for those who do not pay taxes, and give checks to Gitmo terrorists as they enter our country.
Get it? Most of America is beginning to. The Left is soon to be left behind.
PS It is hard to be a Bush supporter and a member of the GOP, but unlike the liberals that run from their ideology, I am proud to say I am a CONSERVATIVE!0% 0 Votes - First of all Bush is no longer in office- so whats the point of beating a dead horse.
Second of all he was going to shift funds in NASA to support it not throw debt unto my children.
Thirdly and most importantly these Tea Parties aren't just about taxes they are about the loss in freedoms that are occuring more and more rapidly and as a republican ill be the first to say starting with the patriot act that was from the Bush administration. Its about standing up for the Fundamentals our country was founded on. Its about not letting our President bow down to other world leaders. Or making nice with a dictator, or calling the Americans arrogant. Its about stopping this administration before it rips apart everything our fathers before us fought, bled and sweat for. It's about Common Sense, and the well being of our future and future generations to come. Its about Keeping the Free world a Free world.
Its not just about crying about taxes. Maybe if you would take the time to listen to your fellow Americans instead of name calling ( liberal, conservative) or pointing fingers why don't we join in together for the common good of eachothers life.
Why is everyone so full of hate towards one another are we really that far gone that we can't even listen anymore?0% 0 Votes -
- The same reason the lib anti war protesters,
never protested when Clinton was attacking, bombing or invading
Serbia, iraq, afghnaistan, kosavo, Haiti, sidan without congressional or UN approval.0% 0 Votes - Because it's not about taxes or spending for these people. The tens of thousands that showed up to these rallies are anti-Obama and nothing else. For whatever reason these people are against Obama, they've chosen to pretend that taxing and spending are the reasons for their disgust.
Here are the facts: If any of these protesters make less than $250,000/year, they will pay less taxes than under Bush. If they make more, then they will pay what they paid under Clinton.
As for big spending, what do they have to say for the billions spent on the unnecessary war in Iraq, including contracts to Cheney's old company (to say nothing of the over 4,500 troop deaths there)? Bush ran this country into the ground and the people voted to fix it. Now these die-hard Republicans think that they should be listened to when they want to complain about the fix to the problem that they caused.
I'd also like to add that the Boston Tea Party was a protest that involved the dumping of goods that were taxed by the British. The issue there was that taxes were being asserted by the British government with which the colonies had no representative. To invoke this event today as it was on April 15th would be to suggest that the protesters are being taxed by a government with which they do not have representation. The delusion here is that the protesters DO have representation. EVERY one of them that wasn't a felon or under the age of 18 had the opportunity to vote.
The short answer: Hypocrisy.Source(s):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/22/tax-benefits-new-contrac_n_69311.html
http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party0% 0 Votes
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