CS Monitor: Who’s picking up the tab for the tea party?
"By giving money to 'educate,' fund, and organize Tea Party protesters, they have helped turn their private agenda into a mass movement. Bruce Bartlett, a conservative economist and a historian, who once worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank that the Kochs fund, said, 'The problem with the whole libertarian movement is that it’s been all chiefs and no Indians. There haven’t been any actual people, like voters, who [care] about it. So the problem for the Kochs has been trying to create a movement.' With the emergence of the Tea Party, he said, 'everyone suddenly sees that for the first time there are Indians out there – people who can provide real ideological power.' The Kochs, he said, are 'trying to shape and control and channel the populist uprising into their own policies.'"
3 comments:
Whose surprised? The so called Tea Party was being called an "Astroturf" ( Fake grassroots) movement from almost day 1. The Oligarchs don't want the rabble coming @ them with pitchforks.
But hey man, they are going to make the USA great again.
Get rid of big guvment AKA dump SSI. Welfare, food stamps, public schools, postal service, public anything. And then to really help everything along turn all of those assets over to corporations along a with subsidies so they can charge us even more to use them. That's going to really help.
The Dumb MOFOS are being used and don't even know it!
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