my connection with the tea party

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Here is a pretty good synopsis by Pat Buchanan.

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Why should Americans, 65 years after World War II, be defending rich Europeans from a Soviet Union that has been dead for 20 years, so those same Europeans can cut their defense budgets to protect their social safety nets? ''''''

wow....what a complete moron.

We have around 55,000 troops in Germany. Germany has about 150,000 in their defense forces total.

"The military of the United States is deployed in more than 150 countries around the world, with more than 369,000 of its 1,580,255 active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories. Most of these overseas personnel are deployed in combat zones in the Middle east, as part of the "War on Terror". Many of the remainder are located at installations activated during the Cold War, by which the US government sought to counter the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II." -- Wikipedia

You need to take a look at it from the US taxpayers point of view. Who handled the Balkans? Libya? Yeah, Iraq is our mess, and we had a more vested interest in Afghanistan, but in general we are spread around everywhere, and why?

Neocons and tea partiers, both want a small government....a government so small it will only help the richest 2 % of the population. The way it does that.....they have some small disagreements.

Neocons, don't necessarily want a small government when it comes to foreign policy, but rather believe in aggressive nation-building and the exportation of democracy.

"Unlike liberals, for example, neoconservatives rejected most of the Great Society programs sponsored by Lyndon Johnson; and unlike traditional conservatives, they supported the more limited welfare state instituted by Roosevelt." -- Wikipedia

The US sends it's troops around the world for the US.....not for europe's social safety net.

We pay the money so you don't have to do it for yourselves. Again... the Balkans, Africa, Libya... We don't have a vested interest in those areas other than to keep you and your oil supply safe.

O and see what my fellow commie has to say about it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinio...&seid=auto

Here is a better link.Buffet's "tax me!" position is legendary. Nothing prevents anyone from giving more to the government.

The biggest area where the rich make up that % differential is in the cap on Social Security. After the first $106800 in income, he pays no more toward SSI. So the maximum that anyone contributes in any given year is $6621.60 (6.2%).