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Ryan
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Ryan asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Why is it that conservatives accuse Democrats of having no jobs and not paying taxes?

but the Tea Partiers somehow find the time to travel the country protesting? They must be cashing in on A LOT of vacation time. Or maybe they don't have real jobs?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It is called hypocrisy. Many teabaggers are milking the government while they protest against the government.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/us/politics/28te...

  • 1 decade ago

    The fact is that the vast majority on government assistance are liberals and vote democrat. If somebody has earned the money to travel around, what's it to you? Are you jealous of them? You might also recognize the fact that only a small group of the tea party travel. Most the attendees are local people or within a day's drive of an event. And many do take vacation time to go.

    Another straw man argument from the loony left.

  • March 27, 2010

    With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

    By KATE ZERNIKE

    SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

    Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.

    In the last year, he has organized a local group and a statewide coalition, and even started a “bus czar” Web site to marshal protesters to Washington on short notice. This month, he mobilized 200 other Tea Party activists to go to the local office of the same congressman to protest what he sees as the government’s takeover of health care.

  • Tom S
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    President Obama's unemployment rate does not know a Republican from a Democrat. Both parties are being affected by the economy. It's just one of the parties realize that everything that is going on will make things much worse.

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  • h1e2r4
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I suppose if you look at the voting records of the no job individuals you will find them on the democratic side. Lower income individuals tend to vote for the party that promises the most entitlements. Self interest.

  • 1 decade ago

    Travel the country?

    Or maybe there's tea partiers all around the country. But I guess that's too complicated for you!

  • Paul
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    ? Most of them are local rally. And very few take the extra effort to travel out of state.

    Majority of people on welfare are Democrats.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Do you know that the unproductive are always Democrats because they hand out freebies to buy votes?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    One should resist making broad generalizations, or one may risk looking like a fool in the eyes of one's peers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Simple. The cons--especially the Tea Party crowd--are judging others by their own behavior.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Who else woul dcut off their noses to spite their face? They love taxes because most of their base voters pay little or no in the way of income and property tax

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