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NY Times: Poll Finds Tea Party Anger Rooted in Issues of Class
NY Times ^ | April 14, 2010 | By KATE ZERNIKE and MEGAN THEE-BRENAN

Posted on 04/14/2010 4:05:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These two reporterettes are both lazy and stupid.

While the majority of us may be educated and middle class, it isn’t class envy or feeling sorry for the poor.

We are pissed off at the direction that politicians are taking this country. We want less government controls, smaller government and no unions for government employees. And we are pissed off that they are not listening to us.


41 posted on 04/14/2010 4:23:21 PM PDT by 23 Everest (Vote them all out of office!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is disinformation from the New York Times, because independents are a huge part of the Tea Party, as well as some Democrats. Anyone remember the poll that said that more than half of Tea Partiers are independents or Democrats?


42 posted on 04/14/2010 4:25:25 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Tzimisce
But while most Americans blame the Bush administration or Wall Street for the current state of the American economy

New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae [2003] (New York Times ^ | 9-11-2003 | New York Times)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2003— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

... Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''

Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.

''I don't see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,'' Mr. Watt said.

the greatest number of Tea Party supporters blamed Congress.

Rightly so.

I guess that the Revisionist Stalinists at the Times have flushed this down the memory hole.

43 posted on 04/14/2010 4:25:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Congratulations. They have gone beyond “DNC” talking points now to “CPUSA” talking points.

They should at LEAST giver proper attribute to the Daily Worker when they crib articles...


44 posted on 04/14/2010 4:27:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

We’re not Neanderthals> They are extinct.

We are renewed CroMagnons - survivors, strong, and growing stronger.

The Democrats, liberals and marxists are the Dodo Birds, and on their way to extinction.

Next, the Snail Darter Fish. Tastes like chicken.


45 posted on 04/14/2010 4:27:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what a lie....its rooted in unfair taxation...


46 posted on 04/14/2010 4:27:51 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by, and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves.

Good Lord, a majority of Americans feel that way hands down.

47 posted on 04/14/2010 4:35:15 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The NYT couldn't find their @ss with both hands and a rear-view mirror...

The TEA party movement has been explained, and explained, and explained...but they somehow cannot put T.E.A. and "Taxed Enough Already" together.

That tells you how poorly they must do on those relationship apptitude tests that a lot of employers are giving these days.

It's about taxation, just like the original TEA party was, however, since its inception, obama has thrown so much other $#!+ out there, that now it is also about FREEDOM and saving the Constitution.

The NYT and their fellow socialists are making it about "class"; poor things are suffering from "inferior group complex" and are extremely envious of anyone who looks better, has more money, drives a bigger car, sings better, or has less moles on their butts.

This ISN'T about class...some of the best and most patriotic people I know are poor...class has nothing to do with FREEDOM - hop in the DeLorean and go back to the slave days on the "underground railroad" and ask them if they would give up their newfound freedom to take a step up in class.

Here's the thing, if obama gets his way and we become a socialist nation, then we are a UNION...as in SOVIET UNION. Everyone will be the same, EQUALLY POOR. The only ones who will win are the obama gang. It works just like a labor union, you chase the carrot they dangle over your head while they drive beside you in a limo.

I like the old "crabs in a bucket" example; if you fill up a bucket with crabs, they will climb over each other trying to get out, and when one finally makes it to the rim of the bucket, the others will pull him back trying to climb over him. That's what getting out of obama's socialist world will resemble...nobody gets ahead, but the "swells".

As far as the hyphenated bitch to wrote the article goes, she's crazier than a three-headed jackass and like most liberal journalist, turns her own views into "straw men" to use for examples for us "clingers" to follow. eff her.
48 posted on 04/14/2010 4:40:20 PM PDT by FrankR (Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the slimes declares something a fact then we know it’s a lie.


49 posted on 04/14/2010 4:40:33 PM PDT by Carley (I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tea party supporters are “more well-educated than the general public.”

True, just surprising the NYT said it. There goes your stereotype, libs, that tea parties are all uneducated rednecks.


50 posted on 04/14/2010 4:41:01 PM PDT by drierice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
and their strong opposition to the Obama administration is more rooted in political ideology than anxiety about their personal economic situation,

When upper and upper-middle class people support liberal causes, it's because they are "selfless" and "care about others."

Conservatives who get politically active do so because of "political ideology."

51 posted on 04/14/2010 4:41:38 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The welfare state turns us all into zoo animals, mouths open, waiting for the next feeding.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess they had to find a new angle after the racism thing didn’t work.


52 posted on 04/14/2010 4:41:58 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: preacher
Communists, Liberals, Progressives, Socialists etc. see everything in issues of class.

Actually it's a two headed serpent; class and race....

53 posted on 04/14/2010 4:44:15 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only way class fits into it is that those of us who are truck drivers and teachers would love to attend, but Tea Party events almost always occur on week-days during working hours. Instead, I’m planning on making a couple phone calls to Congress tomorrow on my break.

It’s like the pro-life demonstrations that usually occur in the grip of winter on days when we need to work (dumb, dumb, dumb).


54 posted on 04/14/2010 4:47:31 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," --"Brawls for Radicals" --by Barack Alinsky)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
majority of Tea Party supporters say Mr. Obama does not share the values most Americans live by,

And they are correct. His ascention to the throne was made possible by lying. Most Americans detest a liar. "Anyone making less than $250 thousand per year will not pay a dime in increased taxes." Bite me.

He's the stupidest Affirmative Action Hire this country will ever have to endure and makes J.Carter look like a genius by comparison. At least Jimmy could build a rocking chair. And his brother Billy would have been a lot more fun at that 'beer summit'.

Jimmy gave us Reagan, Bush gave us Obama. The Tea Party wants to put an end to this nonsense and give us America, finally. Americans want America back from the dickheads who stole her. They don't care which party is at fault- they know we shall not stand if we continue with this nonsense, and they know the remedy. It's been staring us in the face for over 200 years.

Washington D.C. has been teabagging Americans for many years and yet, the Left tries to lable the Tea Party with such a disgusting act. Well, they must like it as they want to defend more of it, but Partiers are sick of it and November, if it were a decent month, would get here tomorrow.

55 posted on 04/14/2010 4:48:57 PM PDT by budwiesest (It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it wasn’t for the homeless needing something to sleep on, NYT would not have much circulation left.


56 posted on 04/14/2010 4:49:18 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: a fool in paradise

Actually, i bet the Tea Partiers are about 70 to 80 percent of the 53 percent of Americans that pay taxes.


57 posted on 04/14/2010 4:50:52 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The article does not explain their poll (surprise!!). Did they interview real Tea Party people, people who simply said they were part of the Tea Party, or just anyone who would talk to them?

BTW, love how the Slimes end the article: "I think I changed my mind (from being a Tea Partier)."

58 posted on 04/14/2010 4:55:04 PM PDT by jeffc (I now live in National Socialist America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...and the [TEA party] conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich.

Ah. They're angry, and the reason that they're angry is that the government is trying to help the poor, not trying to help the rich. Got it. Now please direct me to the cliff I'm supposed to jump off of.

59 posted on 04/14/2010 4:55:14 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does anyone else just give up?


60 posted on 04/14/2010 5:02:37 PM PDT by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade ....YEAH!)
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