Question:
Why do Tea Partyers always thumb me down when I mention their "free" (ie Taxpayer paid for) mobility scooters?
anonymous
2011-08-21 11:24:55 UTC
"Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn't a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.

"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928
Fourteen answers:
?
2011-08-21 11:31:02 UTC
If you are insinuating that Tea Partyers are racist, then you really don't know what the Tea Party movement is all about. Tea Partyers want corruption in the government stopped, and the people given their rights back, what color a person's skin is has nothing to do with that. The only people who still differentiate between people of a different color, are the ones blaming others. The Mainstream Media does not like reporting things that are harmful to them and their bosses, and that is why they crack down on patriots so often. I mean who wants to lose a big fat paycheck?

Tea Partyers are criticized and called cult members and many other things, but a lot of this criticism comes from people who could care less what happens in politics, and who consider their only duties to America, to be obeying its laws and voting!! The majority of the American people have lost their sense of duty, and have given away their rights, and yet they still feel that they have the right to criticize. If you look carefully, you will see that criticism most always comes from the sidelines, here are some examples: fans are the ones criticizing players at ball games, and yet they did not even play in the game, people watching a play criticize it to no end, and yet they were not the ones acting on the stage, people feel they have a right to criticize others, even though they have not experienced the same thing. When a people begins to do these things, the nation begins to die from the inside, think back in history to the Roman Empire, and Incan and Mayan empires, they all had one thing in common, their governments became powerful, most of the people lived in luxury, considering what their forefathers went through, they died because people lost interest in the little details of their government, their government became very powerful, they all had problems such as homosexuality and STDs, and their enemies destroyed them. Which of those qualities applies to the US? Most, if not all of them!! Do not judge Tea Partyers by one or two people you have met, their are bad people everywhere. Remember this quote by George Santayana "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". I would research a subject, before trying to refute it, I have made the mistake of not doing so, and it made me look like a fool!!

Let us always remember this quote: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington

I have been to several Tea Parties, and never seen a Medicare scooter, but I do believe that the elderly, and disabled should be the only ones to get such benefits.

May you have a blessed day
?
2016-10-19 12:18:38 UTC
I didnt get one. and that i replied particular to 5 of the 8 questions interior the mobility assessment they despatched me. Like: Do you have issues gaining access to your outfits truthfully? sure, each so often i've got not got sparkling undies that makes it har have you ever fallen interior the final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days? sure I fell on a similar time as mowing the backyard some months in the past. I have not any medicare and no coverage They stated no unfastened scooter for you: 800 or one thousand greenback No ordinary i want my unfastened scooter
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?
2011-08-21 11:26:28 UTC
You don't really know what Medicare is, do you?



THey probably thumb you down because you don't understand that Medicare, like Social Security was not only intended to be voluntary, was intended t be a return on the investment of the retiree over decades of working.



The Democrats turned it into a ponzi scheme. Nonetheless, should they get nothing in return for their decades of deductions?
Charlie
2011-08-21 11:28:53 UTC
A more stark question would be what are we going to do with all these old people in cots on the curb if Medicare stops paying nursing homes to take care of them?
anonymous
2011-08-21 11:37:07 UTC
yeah i agree people who say they don't like "government handouts" shouldn't receive any government benefits, medicare, unemployment/welfare, police/fire departments, hospitals, protection from the National guard (oh your house was invaded by the chinese, well we don't want you to be hypocritical so no one is coming to help you.), food stamps (0.2 percent of our budget), the list goes on and on, they should try imagining living in a country without education, police, or hospitals.
?
2011-08-21 11:31:45 UTC
The Tea Party should adopt the mobility scooters slogan

"if there's a way, we will find it"

Its like the Tea Parties ideology, if we can screw more people of more money, we will find a way.
John E
2011-08-21 11:30:55 UTC
"The truth about the Tea Party" from Rolling Stone magazine. HA!



Kool-Aid.



Toke.



Kool-Aid.



Toke.
anonymous
2011-08-21 11:34:05 UTC
baggers are just a bunch of terrified bigots who try to shout down anyone who doesn't walk the goosestep with them. They are ignorant fools.
anonymous
2011-08-21 11:28:19 UTC
And we all know that Rolling Stone isn't biased at all. (sarcasm intended)
No More Democrats or GOP, please
2011-08-21 11:26:12 UTC
How do you KNOW that they are the ones giving you "thumbs-down"?
Insallah
2011-08-21 11:27:28 UTC
yes
anonymous
2011-08-21 11:26:45 UTC
Because I don't have one.



Are you anti-elderly?
Me
2011-08-21 11:26:42 UTC
Kind of hypocritical isn't it lol?


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