Arianna appeared on "The Tonight Show" Friday night to discuss her new book, "Third World America," as well as the rise of the tea party during the current election cycle. Arianna argues that the middle class has been abandoned by politicians and devastated by 30 years of neglect by both parties, but it's not too late to turn things around. (For more news on "Third World America, click here.)
She attributes the Tea Party's rise largely to the growing anger of struggling Americans who don't see politicians addressing their problems.
That fury is mostly directed toward Democrats at the moment because they hold the reins of power, Arianna said, but it's not exclusive to one party. "The anger is because the Democrats and the Republicans have for 30 years now screwed the middle class," she told "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno.
The Senate nomination of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware is one response, Arianna said, and it's not all bad. "Anyone in my book who gets Karl Rove that upset must be doing something right," she told Leno.
Arianna broke with O'Donnell, though, on one major issue. "She seems to think that masturbation is really a huge problem, and I don't think it's as huge a problem for Americans given all the other problems they're facing, like unemployment, foreclosures, et cetera," Arianna said. "Self-love is deficit-neutral."
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"Someone has to be able to afford to buy my automobiles".
He was thinking about fellow Americans as his market.
Today, the leaders of Finance & industry find it to be more profitable to invest over sea's, exporting Americas wealth & jobs.
Lets get Real.
This is the problem.
There is a very simple solution-IF we can get the personal greed out of our system.
The Tea party is an interesting, and very energized movement, but aimed in the wrong direction because of its Oligarch backing.
WOW, a movement with that energy & REAL AWARENESS could make a difference.
Hmm.
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'Just some ideas, Congress. Where have your balls been all this time?
The problem is with large institutions mostly businesses who are able to subvert both the land and airspace that we live in.
Large businesses have a lot of money and they can do a lot of damage both to our laws and our environment in a really short period of time.
Solution? The individual and his rights have to come first. No if ands or buts. You can't cut trees down in mass just to feed 300 people. You can't blow moutaintops off just to power the grid for 30 days on the east coast.
You can't can't alter the air in the atmosphere over everyones house (with there permission I might add), just so billions can communicate on cell phones. The air is there for breathing-It's there for ALL. Those billions do not own the air itself and should not be able to alter what is everyone elses for short sighted personal gain.
I see A LOT of greedy evil people who are only thinking about there money and frankly they richly deserve this end game.
Both parties screwed middle class.
Republican President spent our taxes on funding the war and Democrat President on stimulus and entitlements
Both parties bailed the bank and wall street companies and screwed the middle class on main street
Interesting equivalency you have there.
As if wasting money on fruitless wars is any better or worse, than wasting $'s on stimulus that has done little to create new jobs to get us out of this recession.
If you want to make a moral statement, I agree with you.
If you want to make a economic statement I have to agree with the original poster.
The "stimulus" did not put Americans to work. The "bailout" did not bailout the economy. Both only helped the contributors to the political parties.