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A Portrait of the Tea Party Supportershttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/1…
"To the Editor:
“Discontent’s Demography: Who Backs the Tea Party” (front page, April 15) sheds some welcome light on the racially tinged and hypocritical tenets of this political movement. What we see here is a group of free lunchers who want less government spending as long as their own federal entitlements (Social Security and Medicare) are unaffected.
These antigovernment zealots fail to see how the last three decades of greedy excess and laissez-faire deregulation worsened the income inequality in our society and led directly to the recent financial debacle. Without the strong actions of the federal government in the last 18 months, we would now be mired in a second Great Depression.
The Tea Party movement should be openly challenged and exposed as the obstacle to progress that it represents.
Lloyd Binen
Bayside, Queens, April 15, 2010"