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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 09:46 AM
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Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street?

We're down to the wire here on financial reform. I can't think of a better time to put pressure on Wall Street and Washington to make sure there is adequate regulation to ensure that we never have another bailout. The AFL-CIO is about to have a protest at Wall Street on April 29th. Great, that makes sense. I'm sure the right-wing groups who are also upset about the bailouts will join them.

If you remember, the Tea Parties were originally formed to protest the bailouts. They were so mad at the Wall Street bankers who destroyed the economy and then took our hard earned money for their efforts.

So, they will take this opportunity, of course, to launch their own protest of Wall Street. They will protest the TARP money, the easy credit, the lack of regulation, the wild risk taking and the excessive bonuses paid with taxpayer money. They're really going to take the fight to them.

Just kidding. They're not going to do anything. They're going to sit out this fight on financial reform and put absolutely no pressure on Wall Street at all. Because they are tools easily manipulated by right-wing organizations funded by corporate America.

I really feel sorry for them. They're dupes. They think they are so fiercely independent when in fact they are the most easily manipulated people in the country. All that anger toward the power establishment and what happened? They were used by that same establishment to fight against health care reform and to try to protect the health insurance companies. Suckers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/where-are-the-tea-party-p_b_549067.html
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rainy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 10:02 AM
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1. good points. I'd like to come back to this to use in a debate I'm
having with an old friend on facebook.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 10:34 AM
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2. They are manipulated by the Activists--Club for Growth, and Army's
Group, etc.
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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 11:01 AM
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3. Their leader recently told Joy Behar there's not enough proof Wall Street is part of our problems.
Edited on Fri Apr-23-10 11:03 AM by bulloney
But they'll go half-cocked at these rallies and continue to claim that Obama was born in Kenya.
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proudohioan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 11:36 AM
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5. Need I comment on the intelligence displayed here?????
Sadly enough, my father has become "one of them".....

Sigh.
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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-23-10 11:29 AM
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4. Cenk wrote this after his debate with Libertarian Tea Party Leader Wayne Allyn Root (Video Here)
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