TEA Concerns, Money not the Soldiers nor Civilians

These so called outraged U.S. citizens, the teabaggers, the supporters of both occupations calling those opposed every name they could think of like unpatriotic, enemy sympathizers and oh much more. Even railing against those who publicly protested in great numbers, much greater then their own, and never carried weapons nor threatened to kill others. Aren't concerned with their wars of choice as to those sent but only the money spent. These will be the ones fighting against funding for the Veterans Administration in taking care of those who fought and returned, just as the same mentality have fought same over the decades, especially since Vietnam!

Tea Party eyes the cost of war in Afghanistan

Jan 15th 2011 - On the campaign trail in red-state Kentucky, Tea Party candidate Rand Paul would often say in his stump speech that if Americans were serious about cutting the exploding national deficit, then no program, department, or agency should be "off the table."

While taking great pains to emphasize that keeping Americans safe should be Washington's number one priority, he argued that there is still plenty of wasteful spending in the defense budget. Now Rand Paul is a U.S. Senator and a recent poll shows that the Tea Party, which swept him to victory in Kentucky, agrees- money spent under the pretext of national defense isn't always well-spent, and is contributing significantly to the Federal budget crisis.

The Afghanistan Study Group, a bipartisan group of public policy analysts recently conducted a survey which found that self-identified conservative and Tea Party voters are very concerned about the costs of continued nation-building in Afghanistan. The survey found that 71% of conservative voters are concerned about the price tag of continued war in Afghanistan and worried that the cost will make it more difficult to reduce the deficit this year and balance the Federal budget by the end of this decade. More interestingly, two thirds of respondents said that either Washington should reduce troop levels in Afghanistan or withdraw from the region altogether "as soon as possible," with 39% calling for troop reductions and 27% favoring a full withdrawal. Only 24% of self-identified conservatives supported maintaining present troop levels. {continued}