Is America better off since the Tea Party formed?

Left wing crazies and Right wing crazies are both equally bad.


JMO though left wing crazies are worse than the right. Given that you are from the delta I would more than likely say you are democrat so I won't go into this anymore with you.

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I blame the Tea Party

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for?

Sorant,

I bet you also signed the MoveOn.org petition to criminally arrest Republican leaders for sedition regarding their actions during the government shutdown.

Hell, you probably signed the petition multiple times under different aliases. That's what you whackos consider legit.

I'll say this.

The country is worse off, because long standing failed policies of Democrats are catching up. Generations of families live a welfare lifestyle, a large portion of the populace expect the Gov't to provide for them and the policies of the left has allowed a massive amount of Americans to go and remain uneducated.

When such a large portion of America is poor, uneducated and catered to and promised things by the left, you have the debt where it is, crime where it is, unemployment where it is. Think about what just happened, again. We borrowed more money, to pay for things we can't afford, and in the process, increased spending another 3 billion dollars. Would you max out all your cards, go get a high interest loan to pay on them, get a new credit card and buy more stuff, without cutting nonessential items out of your life?

The Tea Party is fricking pathetic

I was fine with letting the country go into default, then maybe our elected officials would quit mortgaging our future and actually start acting responsibly. Not going to happen though, until there is a huge shift in the country, and that is likely not to happen in my lifetime.
Way too many like giving and receiving entitlements that are undeserved and unnecessary.

Any extremist sect within the two parties blow. I hate both parties though because they are both so corrupt and agree on more than this disagree on

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I blame the Tea Party crazies exponentially more than I blame Obama and any socially liberal people out there for the state of the US government right now.

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That's reasonable of you. After all, the Tea party controls a small chunk of the majority party of one house of congress. Obviously, this is all their fault. Stupid crazy people who want to balance the budget. Don't they realize we can just print more money?

All of the problems currently plaiging the US economy are the result of the liberal policies passed by the democratic party during the last 3 administrations:

The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, Clinton Administration (Allowed commercial banks and investment houses to be under the same company, allowing banks to invest depositors money in risky mortgage backed securities while convincing their investing customers to invest in the same products that they themselves were bundling and selling, creating a bubble that set off the bank failures and the bubble bursting of the 2008 recesssion)

Creation of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac, Clinton Administration (preditory government backed mortgage loans to people with poor to no credit setting off the housing bubble)

Affordable Care Act, Obama Administration (causes employers to limit hours of their employees to avoid having to provide healthcare, layoff employees to stay under the minimum number so as not to have to provide insurance, and makes insurance far less affordable for most people)

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I say no.

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I agree.

They're not better than any extreme and it's quite sad that people are so desperate for change at this point that they're willing to buy into what they're selling. We've become the country of "lesser of two evils" all across the board.