Many Tea Party Activists, Out Of Work, Turn To Government For Help

New York Times:

When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.

Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[jsgaetano]

04:23 PM on 03/30/2010

These Teabaggers need to stop relying on Big Gubment to solve all their problems. It's the only way they'll learn to do for themselves, and pull themselves up by their bootscraps.

[soulgirl]

03:03 PM on 03/30/2010

The Tea Party, then should not rely on any governmental funds, including grants, state money etc...
These people are on the edge sort of folks. Truly teetering on mental illness

[sunshine14]

02:03 PM on 03/30/2010

Rather tea party should be demanding answers from their republicans why republicans $2 Trillion dollars in tax cuts to the highest earners, which was defined to create jobs, have instead lost 12 million jobs,? How many jobs did republicans create with $2 Trillion dollars? Why instead did republicans allow 10s of thousands of American jobs, companies to go over seas in their 8 years? Why did republicans add their $2 Trillion dollars in tax cuts and are making all middle class Americans pay for it, for generations to come?

Tea baggers should demand the republicans to show graphs, their plans, accountability, reporting , results of their $2 Trillion dollars in tax cuts which was defined to create jobs?

[KIMBER]

12:54 PM on 03/30/2010

What!?! They should be signing some sort of pledge to forgo all government hand outs! I bet some of these hypocrites are even accepting Social Security and Medicare, too! The whole Tea Party thing is nothing but a cover for a nest of SOCIALISTS!

[jsgaetano]

04:26 PM on 03/30/2010

It must be true- all those Teabaggers are just libr00lz, out there trying to make conservatives look bad!

[Goth VanHellsing]

12:51 PM on 03/30/2010

I love how 3 or 4 people out of work = most out of work.. I wonder how many people here with opinions about the tea party have even been to one of their meetings or protests first hand. I read stories from both sides and then decide. I don't blame every anti war protester for the actions of the wacko Anarchists. When people in our own government sarcastically call the people in a political movement teabaggers thinking it's funny is sickening. There was a time when this country was based on personal responsibility. Now every thing is becoming about entitlement programs and the fault of culture. Both parties seem to be fairly content selling out feature to china, and boarder who needs stinken boarders. No one wants to block what could be the biggest voting demographic from sneaking in from Mexico. I think if I hear the Constitution is a living document one more time I will puke. It was built with the ability to change they call that passing an Amendment. Not feeling you want to give more of a hard working persons labor away and say it's a right. As Thomas Jefferson said
"To preserve our independence, we must not let our politicians load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretense of caring for them, the people will be much happier"

[vegaspauli]

02:57 PM on 03/30/2010

You have a lot of points, but no suggestions to make anything better: the only thing you seem to want changed is to go back to the old days (that were a fable) and keeping those brown people from "sneaking in...." Oh, and the title says "many," not "most...."

[jsgaetano]

04:30 PM on 03/30/2010

So how can the Teabaggers get Real America to keep big gubment off it's back, when it can't even get it's members to keep big gubment off it's back?

It's like the "socialist health care" issue. How can anyone expect the conservatives to not want "socialist health care", when they can't even get Rush Limbaugh to stop praising the socialist health care in Hawaii and Costa Rica?

[bluguy8]

12:48 PM on 03/30/2010

they should go to Sarah and Michelle for some money , not the government they're against

[jsgaetano]

12:25 PM on 03/30/2010

We can't give money to Teabaggers- they need to learn to do for themselves!

Pull yourselves up by your bootscraps, Goopers!

[SkyTalker]

11:45 AM on 03/30/2010

Isn't this called biting the hand that feeds you?

[mmgbizgirl]

09:29 AM on 03/30/2010

It's like taking your cash without touching your hand.

[citizen of the universe]

05:57 AM on 03/30/2010

Wait a minute, Obama is getting blamed for the 1980's? Wow, did he (Obama) have something to do with the Lindberg baby too? The hypocrisy, fear and lunancy one black President has caused is amazing to watch!

[kannita]

08:42 AM on 03/30/2010

I hear you! That's why I don't understand the fascination and incredible respect that the Rethugs have for Pres Reagan. As I was in the military during the Reagan years, more lower enlisted were on food stamps than any other period. The shelter lines for people homeless were worst than now.

[msgirlintn]

05:49 AM on 03/30/2010

Teabaggers just like the rest of the Repubs are just hypocrites.

This isn't about healthcare or big government or anything else they like to shout about This is just about a Dem being in the White House and Dems controlling Congress.

They don't realize or don't care that Bush is the one that passed the bailouts, he is the one that passed TARP and he was the first to bail out the auto industry. They don't know or don't care that Bush and the Repubs are the ones that ran up the deficit.

These teabaggers would follow Palin off a cliff just because that believe she is just like them. And they are right. She is just as uninformed and dangerous for the country as they are.

[alenaspoppa]

11:29 AM on 03/30/2010

I watched the Marco Rubio/Charlie Crist debate on Fox on Sunday night. I wish I was surprised to hear both of them and Jeb Bush talking about the "Obama bailouts," but I wasn't. If you're an avid Fox News viewer, you're not even a "low information voter," you're a "no information voter." They sit around straightfacedly debating "facts" that are not "facts."

[msgirlintn]

07:54 PM on 03/30/2010

alenaspoppa,

That's just it. Repubs do their best to re-write history.

I am not a Faux News viewer nor do I intend to be. However we were visting with my parents during last fall and caught my dad watching Fox. I explained I wouldn't watch that and he informed me that Fox was the "only one that tells it like it is". When I pressed him on where he heard that, I was shocked to learn it was at church. That is frightening to me!

[DocStrangelove]

02:06 AM on 03/30/2010

We have here a booby named Bibi,

a banshee demanding a freebie

but Barack called his bluff

[DocStrangelove]

02:06 AM on 03/30/2010

We have here a booby named Bibi,

a banshee demanding a freebie

[DocStrangelove]

02:05 AM on 03/30/2010

We have here a booby named Bibi,

[siamao]

02:57 AM on 03/30/2010

I'm a DS fan, but somebody gotta 'splain me how these posts 'bout Bibi are
connected to the topic of this article????

[JGurung]

06:37 PM on 03/30/2010

Wrong forum, anti-semite.

[melton244]

01:38 AM on 03/30/2010

Trigg (either one of them) has more intelligence than his granny.