The Sequester Strikes its First Victims!

[IamSam]

tw wrote We have a sequester because extremists say "my way or the highway". Or "we want America to fail" - a direct quote from Rush Limbaugh. Or "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter" - a direct quote from the extremist VP Cheney. Last week was a perfect example of how many adults can be manipulated like children. They voted for Berlusconi.

I don't know about Italy, but in the US, tea party members are an extremely ignorant and uninformed group. I suppose you could say that makes them like childrem. However, IMO they are just xenophobic and closed minded.

The far right has a significant percentage of people with racist attitudes as I've mentioned before in other threads. There is a genuine fear that black people will riot in the streets if they happen to feel like it - for whatever reason. Even a dweller here (who shall remain anonymous) mentioned to me in a pm that they were concerned because if Obama lost the recent election, African Americans would take to the streets and disrupt the entire country.

Such beliefs contribute to the " just say 'no' " attitude of conservatives in the House. They are outwardly enraged and secretly frightened that a black person has become POTUS not only once, but twice. Thus, anything Obama suggests is immediently opposed as a manner of routine. I bet that the tea party would suddenly decide the rich should be taxed to the hilt if Obama made a speech saying he had changed his stance and wanted to protect the wealthy from any new taxes.








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