Format has been a part of the debates ever since then. I think the National Debt affects everybody. It has a lot to do with interest rates. On a personal basis, how has it affected you personally . I am sure it has. N ve my grandchild re how . Are you suggesting if somebody has means that the National Debt does not affect them . Help me with the question and then i know people who cannot afford to pay the mortgage on their homes. I have problems with the National Debt, but how is it affecting you . If you have more experience in it, how can you help us . She means the recession, the economic problems today. You ought to be in the white house every day and hear what i hear and see what i see and read the mail that i read and touch the people. I was in a ame church, a black church outside of washington, and i read in the bulletin about teenage pregnancies, about the difficulty that families are having to make ends meet. I talked to parents we got to care. Everybody cares at people are no
Compared to a little less than half of everyone else 60 of tea partiers. We asked if it is the responsibility of government to reduce these income differences are not. We see a very huge difference 80 of tea pertiers do not believe it is the partiers do not believe it is the role of government to redistribute wealth. If it is their view that this is a land of equal opportunity regardless of background, and the reasons why they might not also think it is the responsibility of the government to redistribute wealth. This is where we see probably the most striking difference. We asked about those in this country who are poor how good of a chance to they have for escaping poverty . This is a striking difference. 57 of tea partiers think these individuals have a very good chance of escaping poverty compared to only 33 of nontea party supporters. 67 think the poor have very little chance of escaping poverty. This is so striking that i wanted to delve a little deeper into the data and look at