what sarah palin said directly, but to say the big point here forget about what sarah palin says. if we default, and it s not resolved by the beginning of november, we re in a recession. but more importantly, if we default, and it s not resolved until into november, towards the end of november, there will be a worldwide economic down turn that could last for years, if not decades. now, this is a guy who is one not the only, but one of many economic advisers to the mccain/palin campaign back in 2008. and so but you ve got people in the tea party out there who keep saying, we can default, this is not a big deal. this is just scaremongering on the part of the president. and they re you know, they re really playing a very fast and loose game with this nation s future. and, again, it s you know, this is like a short and compressed version with climate change denial. you know, you just don t care about the facts. and you are willing to take
democrats. but a handful of people who don t care about the republican party, don t care about congress and obviously don t care about the people and america generally. and now we hear they don t even care about their own staff, because they propose a bill which may even be voted on today, which would include the vitter amendment, which would mean that fairly lowly paid stafferers on the hill would end up losing any kind of subsidy they get for their own health care, which in effect is a pay cut. i mean, i under that they have contempt for the poor. i understand they think that so many people in this nation are moochers and takers and sponges. i get their philosophical position. but they hurt their own staff? i think what they re doing i don t really think i wish i was a fly on a wall as they explain to their staff, we are
conservatism as far as i can tell, since like the dawn of the 20th century or at least the new deal, has not been the opposition to deficits or the debt, there was a time when they said reagan did it. it is the government provisions to the needy, whether it is to the elderly, the poor, medicaid, food stamps, anything that has to do with government providing benefits to out-groups or to the needy, that is what conservatives oppose. and the reason for opposing the affordable care act, people are not against people buying insurance, it is because they see it as a transfer of wealth to the less wealthy. let me just add the notion that the tea party is concerned about money transferring to corporations is fanciful, i think it is a segment of the libertarians who wish this was the problem. you re right, the tea party people don t necessarily get
tell, since like the dawn of the 20th century or at least the new deal, has not been the opposition to deficits or the debt, there was a time when they said reagan did it. it is the government provisions to the needy, whether it is to the elderly, the poor, medicaid, food stamps, anything that has to do with government providing benefits to out-groups or to the needy, that is what conservatives oppose. and the reason for opposing the affordable care act, people are not against people buying insurance, it is because they see it as a transfer of wealth to the less wealthy. let me just add the notion that the tea party is concerned about money transferring to corporations is fanciful, i think it is a segment of the libertarians who wish this was the problem. you re right, the tea party people don t necessarily get their money from wall street, but from other industries. we know where this money was coming from. a quarter of a billion was just found from the coke brothers,
said reagan did it. it is the government provisions to the needy, whether it is to the elderly, the poor, medicaid, food stamps, anything that has to do with government providing benefits to out-groups or to the needy, that is what conservatives oppose. and the reason for opposing the affordable care act, people are not against people buying insurance, it is because they see it as a transfer of wealth to the less wealthy. let me just add the notion that the tea party is concerned about money transferring to corporations is fanciful, i think it is a segment of the libertarians who wish this was the problem. you re right, the tea party people don t necessarily get their money from wall street, but from other industries. we know where this money was coming from. a quarter of a billion was just found from the koch brothers,