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Obama To Tea Party: 'Identify, Specifically, What Would You Do?'
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"If there is anger over the economic or political landscape, he added, it is being misdirected in his direction."
"The problem that I've seen in the debate that's been taking place and in some of these Tea Party events is, I think they're misidentifying sort of who the culprits are here," said Obama. "As I said before, we had to take some emergency steps last year. But the majority of economists will tell you that the emergency steps we take are not the problem long-term. The problems long-term are the problems that I talked about earlier. We had two tax cuts that weren't paid for, two wars that weren't paid for. We've got a population that's getting older. We're all demanding services, but our taxes have actually substantially gone down."
"So the challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify, specifically, what would you do?" he added. "It's not enough just to say get control of spending. I think it's important for you to say, I'm willing to cut veterans' benefits or I'm willing to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits or I'm willing to see these taxes go up. What you can't do, which is what I've been hearing a lot from the other side, is we're going to control government spending, we're going to propose $4 trillion of additional tax cuts, and that magically somehow things are going to work. Now, some of these are very difficult choices."
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Many teabaggers and other right-wing morons get SS and Medicare, but for some reason they don't seem to understand that the idiots they are voting for want to do away with those two programs along with every other program that helps American citizens keep their heads above water!
You can talk till you are blue in the face, and most of these morons can't get it through their heads that they are voting to get rid of programs they use and live on! Only when the lose these benefits, their home, their savings, and are living on the street will the finally come to their senses and see the facts, and then again maybe they still won't see the facts!
We should push for a 3 month hiatus of SS and Medicare benefits for teabaggers and other right wingers. They'd never go for it, but it would shut them the f*ck up pretty fast once reality slapped them across the face. People fall for generalized B.S. and they end up paying a price for not paying attention. All these people know is how to act pissed and repeat moldy buzzwords for the TV camera like "freedom" "socialism" "tyranny" "taxes" etc.
They are so stupid that they actually want the US to borrow more money from China and give it to the 1% of the super rich in the form of continued ultra tax cuts, while it is them, their children, and their grandchildren who will be paying for this boondoggle while the super rich will be laughing at these suckers all the way to the bank.
This is what Goat and Webster cannot get through their thick heads.
I have a few suggestions. You want to cut government spending and lower taxes? Pull every last soldier out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Cut the general staff at the Pentagon by half. Close the School of the Americas. Forget the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. Close Guantanamo and give it back to the Cubans. Close half of the other 700+ bases not on American soil. That's for starters. The goal would be to get the defense budget down to where it is only twice the size of the next largest.
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