How can the Tea Party and austerity measures be stopped?

[opebo]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

It can't be stopped. 

[opebo]

Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years?

It can't be stopped. 

What is "it" that can't be stopped?

In this particular case I was referring to the Right-Wing Juggernaut.  But in any question about things getting worse, I will always vote that that they're getting worse.  Pretty safe bet.

[opebo]

Somebody should run on a platform of returning public union rights and social security coverage to where they were in the 1930s, since we've clearly gone so radically towards laissez faire since then.

It really is amusing, when you think about it, that we still have the same 40 hour work week that we had in the 1930s.

[opebo]

It really is amusing, when you think about it, that we still have the same 40 hour work week that we had in the 1930s.

I agree, eliminate it....  minimum wage to...

We should have a legally mandated 20 hour work week by now.

[opebo]

It really is amusing, when you think about it, that we still have the same 40 hour work week that we had in the 1930s.

I agree, eliminate it....  minimum wage to...

We should have a legally mandated 20 hour work week by now.

A 20 hour work week? Are you serious? I actually think 40 is too short if we are to maximize productivity. We could easily move it to 50 and offer an extra week of vacation and get a lot more done as a nation.

What is lacking is consumption, not production, Nappy.