May Economics, Politics, Religion, and Healthcare Thread

[Eric]

I'll kick things off:

Tea Party, hypocrites: (totally shocking, I know).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...t-bankers.html

Tea Party favorites such as Stephen Fincher of Tennessee were swept into Congress on a wave of anger over government-funded bailouts of banks.

Now those incumbents are collecting thousands of dollars for re-election campaigns from the same Wall Street firms whose excesses they criticized. They have taken no significant steps to curb them or prevent future taxpayer-financed rescues.