Parasite: Your Definition May Differ
The Raytown [Kansas] farmer who posted a sign on a semi-truck trailer accusing Democrats of being the “Party of Parasites” received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995.
But David Jungerman says the payouts don’t contradict the sign he put up in a corn field in Bates County along U.S. 71 Highway.
“That’s just my money coming back to me,” Jungerman, 72, said Monday. “I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite.”
This is typical teabagger behavior. They want to cut government but can’t name any program they want to cut (except money to other people, keep their own programs flowing). The complain about taxes being too high when federal taxes are at their lowest point. They protest against the federal government when it’s state and local taxes that are the biggest tax burden.
It’s a confused, incoherent ideology. It’s no wonder it’s not catching on.
Tags: Republican Hypocrisy, Teabaggers
Yeah. I love this. This guy is the mid-western Dave Burris. All tax money that is not spent on farm subsidy or beach replenishment is a goddam welfare state boondoggle.
So since people like him are not parasites, even though they are receiving government welfare, he must mean that the brown people are the parasites. Yep, your typical teabagger fascist pig. Hell awaits him.
Unfortunately it is catching on. Read the headlines; there is no more political will for stimulus or even relief payments.
Obama botched the Keynesian stimulus. The stimulus was not big enough and not targeted enough on jobs. Now it is time to pivot and cut spending, but the bounce wasn’t big enough. We’re screwed. Hello 1937.
Um, Anon, you are confusing two issues here. Deficit Spending v. Deficit reduction is a different argument than the one this teabagger is having with himself.
And yet somehow you cannot get around to condemning the assault on his freedom of speech and the destruction f his property by politically-motivated
arsoniststerrorists.Given how remarkably silent you all were when teabaggers were threatening congresspeople and destroying their property after the HCA vote, you can understand how one could think that this kind of behavior is apparently the norm now.