Tea Party Patriots: Stupid, Or Corrupt?
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2012/05/26 21:57:12
Ever since I could remember I've had a problem with people who take advantage of others. Maybe that's why I decided to embrace the label of "bleeding heart Liberal." There's something honorable about caring about & feeling empathy for hurting people. Especially when the Holy Bible instructs that if my enemy is hungry to feed them, if they're thirsty to give them something to drink.
The Tea Party came into this world the same way a baby does; screaming and crying. Mainly they screamed and cried about the deficit, taxes and fiscal responsibility. It turns out, when it comes to spending, they’re still babes in the woods. Their latest IRS filing shows the Tea Party Patriots took in more than $12 million in fundraising, so how did only $3.4 million of that go to their actual ‘mission’ programs?
Mother Jones obtained the Tea Party Patriots’ full IRS filing, and it’s an abject lesson in how fools and their money part. The most damning evidence is found on page 20, shown here:
Here you find MDS Communications, a telemarketing firm that took in on behalf of the TPP $680,581.00 , a tidy sum. Sadly for the cause, they charged $665,581 for their services, leaving the fiscally hawkish TPP, $15k. Then there’s the $1.4 million that was given to the Richard Norman Company, for “fundraising counsel,” a figure made more remarkable when you learn Richard Norman, is now TPP’s national finance chair.
You’d think he could have given them a discount.
But it doesn’t end there. Mother Jones reports the Tea Party Patriots also spent $758,000 on its own salaries, $587,000 on travel, as well as $250,000 in legal fees that mostly went to suing other Tea Partiers.
For the vast majority of people who identify with and donate to this movement, those would seem like some pretty generous amounts of money these people are helping themselves to. But most of them will probably never know. Their names and financial information are shared with slick fundraising outfits and ‘counsel’ who make very nice livings off of them. Then they take that money for personal use, and to lobby for the slashing of social programs, that might be the only safety left for the people they’re cheating.
Like taking candy from a baby.
Read More: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/22/patriots/
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Che Guevara - Hero 2012/05/26 22:20:31
When we were looking at the very real possibility of another depression instead of working towards a solution to the unemployment crisis they demanded we focus on the deficit instead. When the economy was contracting and the Govt. was the entity capable of stimulating job growth they demanded deep cuts in govt. spending at the worst possible time all the while vehemently protecting tax breaks and loopholes for corporations and Wall St. executives along with the wealthiest 1% of Americans.
I don't know if I'd call them stupid or corrupt but rather willfully ignorant, what I do know is that despite their claims otherwise they are no patriots, far from it in fact.
There certainly is, but it ceases to impress when you mug & rob hard working taxpayers to make yourself feel better and I'd send you a box of band-aids for your bleeding hear if I could ....because I care
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Americans
A fool and their money. The teabaggers have no limit on the amount of fools in their ranks.
If Ann Romney wants to trade places with me for just ONE MONTH she'll know what its like for those of us on the lowest end of the economic scale. Maybe then she'll know what if FEELS like to be RICH!
I'm sorry to hear you are in a bad way. It really sucks, when it's the end of the month and you are waiting on that check. I know my husband is disabled and his meds are REALLY expensive. And then mine on top of that.
Do you have any Baking Soda? You can use that in your wash. At least you would have some clean clothes.
Yeah, I would let Ann come stay at my house for a month too. And no housekeepers and chauffeurs.