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[oportet.livejournal.com]

I'm not a liberal, but if I was, I can't imagine what I would have against the Tea Party movement - so hopefully a liberal/democrat could help me out with this.

I understand the movement is made up mostly of conservatives, so wouldn't that either be a good, or at worst, neutral thing for you when elections come around?

Sure, the Tea Party isn't an official party with representatives, but when a big (or the big) election comes around, they'll most likely endorse someone (If they don't, that would fall under neutral). If the person/people they back are Republican, you saw it coming, and you'll pretty much have the same outcome there would have been if the TP never existed (again, neutral result). If the person/people they back aren't Republican, it wouldn't be taking many, if any, votes away from your side - nowhere near the number it would be taking away from Republicans (this would fall under good for you).

Or am I missing something?

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[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

How are we supposed to turn the world economy back ten years? We can't undo what's been done, so what solutions were proposed?

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Yet you can't tell me how to solve the problem, only that there is one. That's useful!

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not fond of hearing "America, we have a problem" without "...so let's put on our thinking caps. Here's one tentative solution." I do want to hear what is more likely to work, actually. I'm the kind of person who goes to school board meetings with ideas written down and more hatching as I hear other people speak.

These wars have been expensive, and in all the wrong ways; I've heard horror stories about underequipped troops. Also, remember how run down Walter Reed got? Yeah. That's where we should've been spending. I don't know where the money went, which scares me a little. No. A lot.

I know that some expenditures were sort of inevitable (cleanup after disasters, natural and man-made) and that inflation happens, so we do have to get creative about reining in spending. We have to think where the money really will do the most good. Did my town need another roundabout when it could've put the money into its schools instead? Things like that.