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JJ Dec 12, 2010 11:05 AM GMT The reason businesses often support Republocrats is because they expect to get favors from them. I work for a large corporation that endorsed Barak Obama. The reason we supported him was because we know he would spend more money on our industry. This is precisely why we, as individuals, must support the Tea Party. Businesses will look out for their own individual interests before the interests of the country at large.
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ps Nov 28, 2010 1:49 PM GMT I find the Tea Party in most cases to be a total joke. I can understand Tea Partiers in Blue States because Blue states support all of the obese ignorant red staters. Let's see Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell eliminate those tobacco subsidies for Kentucky. Lets see Haley Barbour saying Mississippi should not get $2.20 for every buck the send to DC. Yeah, right. Take on the real welfare queens- the red states. Then we can see if the Tea party is serious.
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Rhonda Nov 28, 2010 8:42 AM GMT Start with the unions and then you may see some "Big Businesses" rethinking their stance on the T.E.A. Party and let's remember, we need jobs in this country so let's look before we leap. Since all T.E.A. Parties are their own and no one should speak for us as a whole, big business needs to see that what one says is not always what all say. Pesonally, I will support big business if it supports the people and not the government so there should be some common ground there, we all just need to find it and move it to a postive and not a negative.
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LL Nov 27, 2010 2:49 AM GMT Someone didn't understood that being pro-market is different than being pro-bussiness.Being pro-bussiness defends those that are already in power. Being pro-market protects those that are growing and starting.
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DALE YOUNG Nov 21, 2010 7:10 PM GMT As a former subscriber and admirer of Businessweek, i read this article with dismay. There goes the neighborhood. The sneering approach to the subject illustrated the elitist attitude of Ivy League snobs with no connection to life off the island. Bloomberg is the white Obama, with no workable plan except to raise more fees and taxes to pay for a corrupted system of little value top the payors. Change"If you want the services, you have to pay for them" to "If you like corruption pony up!"The U.S. would never survive Bloomberg after Obama.
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Finance-grouА? Nov 13, 2010 11:01 AM GMT Hack again?!
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Linda Weinrich Nov 9, 2010 11:55 AM GMT I disagree with your story and believe the Tea Party is at last a forum for us neglected silent Americans who have watched our government transfer all the debts of some greety ones to us, with plenty of help from a Congress filled with attorneys who do not understand what is going on in the real world. Government is now too expensive and too intrusive. I was taught that the role of the Federal Government should be primarily national defense and criminal justice, and that ALL other powers are reserved to the States and the people. I want it to be that way!
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... Nov 1, 2010 5:23 PM GMT I guess I don't know everything there is about the Tea Party, and this article is a bit too biased to provide me with all the information. But I do know that the Tea Party is definitely a change. The question is, is it good or bad?Personally though, I don't think it will get the chance to make the change, because most people won't give it the chance.
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Luke Oct 29, 2010 5:07 PM GMT My family owns a small business in the lumber industry. We are connected with dozens of other businesses across the country ranging from multi-million dollar machinery manufacturers, to small sawmills and lumber suppliers. I don't know a single business owner that is made uncomfortable by the Tea Party movement and it's general idea that the nation needs to move back toward a Ronald Reagan style government. The general belief in our industry is that the less involved the Federal government is in private industry, the more prosperous this nation will be - and the Reagan era seems to bear that out very well.
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Homo Sapien Oct 29, 2010 4:47 PM GMT Wow. Looka t these comments from people impervious to reason and fact. Slinging hyperbole like fresh uncooked chitterlings. Thanks to BusinessWeek for putting some reason and facts in the space. Who is surprised that the weak links call this propaganda.Are we doomed? How many of them are out there? Are there enough to drag the whole society down the mudslinging mud slide with them. I fear there are.
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