Is the Tea Party Movement Like a Pyramid Scheme?

Mother Jones ^ | Oct. 19, 2010 | Stephanie Mencimer

[woofie]

I assume this is total BS ....but it gives people a sense of what the left is peddling

If this guy is associated with the Tea Party I hope he is not using it to hype his stuff

[Tailgunner Joe]

If there’s anything the left hates worse than patriotism, it’s profit.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve invested all of $3 in the Tea Party “pyramid scheme” since they first appeared on the scene.

[Mad_as_heck]

Anything that comes from Mother Jones News should be taken with a freight car’s worth of salt. Motehr Jones readers think that The Nation or The New Republic are right wing publications.

[Responsibility2nd]

You’re really posting from Mother Jones? Here at FR?

Are you too old for the zot?

[doc1019]

Is the Tea Party Movement Like a Pyramid Scheme?

The left isn't getting anywhere with the usual stuff. You know, racism, crazies, etc. so they are going for the corruption angle. Gee, what next?

[pointsal]

Mother Jones magazine.... Heck, I was expecting something more earthy like Mother xxxxxx magazine

[If you are from Berkeley.... it is the most common action verb known.]

[Marty62]

My thoughts exactly. Why this hasn’t been pulled is beyond me...and I’m no fan of Meckler.

[Soothesayer]

Leftists can’t comprehend any movement which doesn’t involve leader-worship, collective thinking, or hatred of a race/class.

[meyer]

More like a trapezoid.

[ez]

This idiot doesn’t understand a pyramid scheme. There needs to be a transfer of cash at each level, with each layer added making the originator more rich until the levels grow so large they collapse the structure. This is nothing like that...there is only ONE layer.

[freebilly]

Pyramid scheme...? You mean like Social Security...?

[cripplecreek]

Funny thing is they don’t seem to mention anyone losing their fortune to the tea party or how anyone at “the top” is getting rich off it.

[Lazamataz]

A. Pyramid. Scheme.

OMG, the left is starting to drool again. Get the bib!

You know what a REAL Pyramid Scheme looks like?

[Lazamataz]

I hate you.

[I_Like_Spam]

This doesn’t even make any sense, not even to deluded college students and other misguided liberals.

Does Mother Jones even know how chain letters operate?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Did you add Mich. sales tax?

[Da Coyote]

Mother Jones is not exactly a bastion of intellect.

At all.

[lonestar]

The comparison is idiotic.

[tflabo]

Meanwhile the Federal Gov’t. hugely extorts your tax $$ in a grande scheme called Ponzi! We willingly throw a few good investment dollars at the TP pyramid. At least we know the value of the end results.