On yesterday's episode of @katiecouric, Katie Couric responded to a question tweeted by Arianna: "Katie, we hear a lot about hard times leading to Tea Party anger. What about Americans who re-direct their anger into solutions?"
Couric's response:
"First of all...I think the Tea Party is not a monolithic organization. It's not an organization, it's a movement. I think anger in and of itself isn't a negative force necessarily, sometimes out of anger and outrage great things can be accomplished."
WATCH Couric's full response below:
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Memo to Obama: Bill Clinton, LBJ, and FDR know how you feel.
By Kevin Drum
"...IN A WIDELY READ essay about the tea party movement [2] published earlier this year in the New York Review of Books [3], historian Mark Lilla [4] provided a now-familiar explanation about what motivates the tea partiers. They are, he reckoned, angry about the recession; angry about health care reform; angry about President Obama; and angry about educated elites forever telling them what to do. "A new strain of populism is metastasizing before our eyes," he said, and he described the movement this way:.."
http://motherjones.com/print/73156
oops
make that...
reason.
They are a group devoid of human promotion...they cannot vote yet, now have very limited amounts of money they can bribe politicians with..also ..they cannot die. They can continue to accrue money for hundreds of years..and have more power, yet no mortality.
It is very dangerous to have such power. Eventually ALL monies, credits and policies will be in the hands of the corporations. and YOU will have none.
This is why corporations should have NO power and should be heavily regulated.
Ever see the movie or read the book "1984"
Hmmmmmm.
And there is nothing wrong with being elite or intellectual... snobbery is bad...bigotry is worse.
They say something that is SO against the majority of positive ideas and then audaciously try to act on those imposed ideas.
Time and time again, i see this from them and it's hard to see their side. it's enough trying to swallow how they feel, it's even harder to understand their convictions, because they don't seem to have enough focus in what they say.
trying to act out that same ideal, as far as they are concerned, is difficult. I find it hard to believe there are americans that are like that. Then again, there was Dahmer (not to connect him to them).
He was from america.
I had the crazy idea to sell Peas a little less than a year ago. It was supposed to be a temporary holiday "project" - a way to spread the message of Good Luck and Prosperity associated with Black-eyed Peas and the Southern New Year's tradition, show potential employers my "stuff", and raise money for charity. I figured I would have a new job by January.
Now, almost a year later, I'm still at it. I also recently launched ecoREcreations, a collection of handcrafted jewelry made from recycled materials. The past year has been crazy! But, I am living proof that sometimes you do get a Second Chance. I hope to continue to help others in my community who need a Second Chance....and to stay of the cubicles forever!
I suspect many will tend towards the latter, which is why I also think the power structure on the right is so far gone - has grown so arrogant - that they don't even understand that they're playing ping-pong with nitroglycerin.
Nothing to see folks; move along.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036
For example: Poor people who complain about "poverty" endorse policies that work towards alleviating their conditions. Their anger is first inspired by living within the confines of the conditions they protest. Those who support them take up their banner from the outside in, realizing and identifying with their plight. This is the true definition of "grass roots". Yet, even the signs Tea Partiers hold up are more indicative of talking points and not a genuinely inspired movement, nor a desire for solutions that would solve problems for all Americans. Messages like, "Keep your government hands off my Social Security" are just ridiculous. They make sandwiches from the same government cheese they complain about.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575520252928390046.html#project%3DWSJNBC_POLL09%26articleTabs%3Darticle
This part is rather interesting:
The poll found that tea-party supporters make up one-third of the voters most likely to cast ballots in November's midterm elections. This showed the movement "isn't a small little segment, but it is a huge part of what's driving 2010," Mr. Hart said.
The survey also found growing energy among some core Democratic voting blocs, such as African-Americans and Hispanics—a tightening that is common as an election draws closer, according to pollsters.
1 Massively increased taxes
2 Set up government stimulus programs (which FDR continued)
3 Set up trade protectionism
Gee, how many things can we emulate?
Even FDR's Treasury Secretary said they failed.
And WWII did not end the GD, it was in 1946 when FDR's economic controls were ruled unconstitutional.
As for a stimulus, you can't tax yourself into prosperity.
When you allow the rich the permission to horde and then give them not just permission but incentives to outsource American jobs, exactly where's the incentive for them to do their patriotic duty?
If you raise taxes on the rich and then give them incentives towards tax cuts for hiring and creating American jobs, then its win/win for everyone! They get to keep the same amount of money as a tax cut with no incentive to actually spend that money vs tax increase and having to hire people to get the tax break!
For decades the middle class has been carrying the tax burden of this country until the republican controlled govt gave the rich everything they paid for when getting these folks elected and in their infinite greed, they decided to destroy the middle class so their bottom line went from $300 million to $400 million. All we want is for them to take their turn up to bat.
But hey, guess when you have enough money to live where ever you want to and you don't have an ounce of care or pride in your country or for your fellow man... then rock on I guess.