Servants Of The Overlords
by digby
I think the business community and the teabaggers are going to get along just fine:
Business leaders have struggled to understand what the Tea Party movement means for proposals they support, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Oct. 15 issue. Respondents who identify with the Tea Party are almost unanimous in saying it stands for lower taxes, smaller government and personal responsibility. More than six in 10 say it advocates government based on Christian principles. They are more intense than other voters in seeking a rollback of the changes passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress.[…]
Tea Party supporters are more likely than other voters to be white, married, 55 and older, and call themselves born-again Christians.
[…]Half of the Tea Party voters consider the federal debt — estimated at $1.3 trillion in fiscal 2010 by the Congressional Budget Office — to be the most important issue facing the country, compared with 27 percent of all likely voters. And they are willing to make hard choices to cut the costs.
Fifty-three percent would consider raising the age for Medicare benefits and 58 percent would consider raising the age for Social Security benefits. That compares with 47 percent of all likely voters who would consider Medicare changes and 49 percent who would change Social Security law.
Two-thirds of Tea Party supporters also would consider cutting spending on roads and bridges; 63 percent say they would be willing to reduce research funds for Alzheimer’s and other diseases to narrow the deficit. One exception: Few want to abandon the Bush-era tax cuts, due to expire in December, that give breaks to high and middle-income Americans.[…]
A plurality of all likely voters say they would be less likely to back a candidate whose campaign ads were financed by anonymous business groups. For Tea Party backers, a plurality said this wouldn’t matter to their vote.[…]
In the poll, almost nine of 10 of the movement’s backers disapprove of the job the president is doing. They are particularly negative about his approach to the business community: Three-quarters of Tea Party supporters say Obama is too anti-business compared with one third of all likely voters.
In fairness, they do hate the TARP and the Fed, but I doubt they could tell you why. (And I have a sneaking suspicion if Jim DeMint tells them Jesus says he wants something, they’ll go along.)
These people are the Masters of the Universe’s dream. No wonder they are pouring money into their candidacies. Sure, they may be religious fundamentalist fanatics but what does that have to do with business? They can have their fun with the women and the gays — rich people don’t have to worry about such things. As long as they are this hardcore about giving the overlords what they want, everybody’s going to get along just fine.
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