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I'm one of them foriegnerz and I'm just voting so I can annoy Heli

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All I know about the tea party is that they don't know what the Boston Tea-Party was about (Hint, it wasn't anti-government, it was anti-corporate)

  Please elaborate.  Sounds like an interesting opinion.  I would like to hear more.  Not about what you think the tea party thinks about it, because such blanket statements dont work, but instead, your "anti-corporate not anti-government" thesis (im not disagreeing with you, just that you threw out such a strong remark, i wanna hear more).

Ideals = Tea party ideals are basically a republican set of ideals.
--rebublicans are all over the place in their ideals.  The last 20 years they becames a party mostly devoted to moral causes and left fiscal conservatism behind.  notably, anti-abortion, anti-gay marraige, among others
What is happening = The Tea party is supporting republicans.
--like i said, the Replublican party tried to hijack the tea party.  now thats failing.
Both point to the Tea party to being a republican set.
yes, only because the republicans used it to get elected, and now realize the tea party people wont go away.  Like i said, John Boener is now #1 on the tea party hit list.
Now, admittedly, the tea party is not tied as close to it as most, but it still fundamentally fits under the umbrella of 'republican'.
--I agree that fiscal conservatism most often does fit under the "umbrella", but Blue Dog democrats dont, and they are also fiscally conservative.  You should look up those democrats that were suported by the tea partry.  The republicans in those elections went batshit cuz they just didnt get it.

I hope that clears up stuff.  thanks for the breakdown.




ALSO:  Topic: ITT:We go completely off topic and discuss the validity of the Tea Party...Party
yeah, my bad, right of the bat I started that.

I'm mostly replying to Gorjo's post. A large number of the American revolutionaries were men who had become very wealthy through smuggling restricted French made goods from the French West Indies. This was highly illegal as the British did not want their money supply going to the French, but the French offered better deals. It's tough to stop a ship with another ship on the ocean though...

EDIT: The way it was corporate was that the crown controlled the EXTREMELY lucrative colonies through what amounts to economic means, by controlling it's markets. The problem with that is that all the money went to Britain and Americans were driven to a barter system in the local area comparable to the Indian trade of 4 beaver pelts for 1 metal ax. Meanwhile, British merchants took British coin back to Britain, and since there were limited physical coins in circulation, for a time the country swapped. (Exports < imports)