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global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:48 AM
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Are These TeaBagging Marchers In D.C. Being Subsidized To Be There?.......
Are these people coming to D.C. on their dollar? Or are they being subsidized to be in D.C.? Has an organization provided them buses, hotels, food, etc for this march? Are the insurance companies paying for this debacle?

Somebody should interview one of the marchers and ask them how much they are being paid to be in D.C. today.

I'm thinking that they can't be in the best shape financially to make the trip to D.C. I'm sure a lot of them lost their jobs and are hurting. Or are these the wealthy (worried that their tax cuts will go away) and they are pretending to be middle class citizens?
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kakaze42 Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:50 AM
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1. Sometimes people, just demonstrate because they believe in the cause.
Is it so hard to imagine that people would march for Freedom and the Constitution, with out pay?
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:52 AM
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3. They are NOT marching for freedom
and the Constitution.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:06 AM
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19. They are marching because they don't want to pay taxes..
.. that would help anyone who doesn't look like them
or hold to their so-called "values."
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:14 AM
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22. The upgraded 4G version of the party: Guns, Gods, Gays, and Greenbacks
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 10:14 AM by demmiblue
Hey, if AT&T can upgrade, so can the republican party!
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:53 AM
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5. Where were they during the bush administration, then?
:shrug:
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hileeopnyn8d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:57 AM
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10. LOL!
Weren't you invited?

And about this "Freedom and the Constitution" where were they for the the last 8 years? What freedom have they lost in the last 8 months?
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:58 AM
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11. Welcome to DU
I suspect you won't last.
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Kingofalldems Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:00 AM
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13. That Beck fellow sure is great, isn't he?
I like him.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:01 AM
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14. sounds like we have a beckster here!!!
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:05 AM
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17. The word is "Beckerhead".
:evilgrin:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:13 AM
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21. no this poster is a Peckerhead
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:04 AM
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16. Oh shit, I just busted a gut from LMFAO!!!! nt
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Sal Minella Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:13 AM
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20. It is VERY hard to imagine that people of any intelligence whatever
would travel by bus to protest the right of a very few greedheads to amass great wealth at the expense of the health of American citizens, yes. Very hard to imagine.

A system that exists to collect profits instead of provide medical care is indefensible on its face, to anyone capable of any thought process whatsoever.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:16 AM
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23. Yeah. The cause to give Glenn Beck all their money.
Christ, you people are so naive.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:29 AM
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26. Sometimes people join msg boards they don't believe in to disrupt the discourse...
...and to piss in the pool by spouting off talk radio comments AS IF we haven't heard it all before.

Here's a tip: listen to the Hannity podcast while the commercials are playing on Fox's 9/12 coverage and repeat to yourself, "It's not a lie", "It's not a lie".

Hey everyone! I beat the tombstone!







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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:57 AM
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27. LOL!
:rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl: :spray: :rofl:
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 11:02 AM
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28. Guess they were all asleep
from 2001-2009. They woke up on 1/20/09 and suddenly decided the Constitution and their "Freedoms" were under attack.

Whatever. :eyes:
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 11:06 AM
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30. KaKaze...Kama Kaze perhaps. You will crash and burn here that's for sure.
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 11:06 AM by MidwestTransplant
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:52 AM
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2. Plenty of funny videos will come out of this march
Ask ten teabaggers why they are there, get ten wildly different answers.

...then there is the KKK and StormFront racist contingents...
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:53 AM
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4. No proof they're being paid to attend but I wouldn't doubt it.
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Stevenmarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:53 AM
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6. Send FreedomWorks the bill for the police, fire and sanitation services
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:54 AM
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7. There's tons of money being thrown around. It's that "networking" thingy
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:55 AM by Joanne98
Conservatives have been doing that for years. But there are real groups too. If I had to guess I'd say all the conservative groups are represented there. It's not hard to whip up a crowd like this when you have an entire news channel and all the radio stations and entire industries helping you.

And of course WE have no leadership STILL!
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TxRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:56 AM
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8. Retirees?
Subsidized with socialist social security?
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:57 AM
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9. Every other wingnut in the country is in DC right now.
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:57 AM by liberalmuse
I'm sure a small number were bussed in, but let's face it, the 24% of the rabidly batshit are out in large numbers today, even though they are a minority. They probably saved up all year for this. You really don't have to have a lot of money to travel in the US. I think less than 2% of the people against the Iraq War even bothered to show up for the peace protests, even though our numbers were pretty large.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:59 AM
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12. Just because Pukkkes have been busing them all over the country already
Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:59 AM by librechik
doesn't mean they did that again this time. I'm sure most of these lunatics are just escapees from local mental hospitals.
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:02 AM
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15. These people have sacrificed
just to be here! I heard a report yesterday that casino revenues are down this month-no lie.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:06 AM
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18. Actually, I heard they had to pay quite a bit to attend. I don't
think I heard how much exactly.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:19 AM
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24. No, I believe they are paying Glenn Beck and his corporate sponsors good money...
...to be walking advertisements for Glenn Beck and his corporate sponsors.

:crazy:

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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 10:23 AM
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25. I'm sure freedomwerkz is passing out loads of walking around money. nt.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 11:05 AM
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29. They like to play dress up....
And march around in parades waving flags. I guess every day is July 4 for them.
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LaydeeBug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 11:09 AM
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31. Teabagging is for Nuts. nt
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