On Tuesday 28 September 2010 20:17:26 Ian Clarke wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:57 PM, <jdavie...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for that, Joel. The "Taxed Enough Already" (TEA) party movement has > > been the unfortunate victim of a very successful smear campaign - partly > > because it's managed to attract a handful of the wrong sorts of people, but > > mostly because it's become a very real threat to the Washington > > establishment. We "scum" are Freenet's best hope - as you can see, the > > current, supposedly "tech-savvy" U.S. political administration hasn't lived > > up to your expectations. > > I certainly don't think the tea party are scum, I just think that a lot of > libertarians, who think that the tea party is about libertarianism, are > going to get a rude awakening once they get into power, just as they did > when the Republicans took over the house and congress in the mid-90s. > > Also, a lot of their positions are contradictory. They claim they oppose > the deficit, yet they want a tax cut for people who don't need it, paid for > by increasing the deficit. They oppose spending, yet supported the Bush tax > cuts and the Iraq war, which together dwarf the combined effect of the > recovery measures, tarp, and the economic downturn, in terms of their impact > on the deficit.
I am replying to the two tea party fans off-list since even on chat@ there is some expectation that content be vaguely Freenet-related. For the record, if I had originally written the mail for wide distribution I wouldn't have called the Tea Party scum, but that *is* what I believe, and I will justify this position off-list. (I might post it on my blog too).
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