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What if you gave a tea party and nobody came -- even with Sistah Sarah as the headliner? Talk about trickle down!
From Mother Jones:
[...] According to internal convention planning documents obtained by Mother Jones, Palin will be paid $115,000 to address the attendees—as they dine on steak or lobster. To some Tea Partiers, this lavish affair sounds suspiciously like an exclusive GOP fundraiser and a betrayal of their grassroots movement. (In mid-January, Palin told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that she will not profit from her appearance at the convention, suggesting she would donate her speaking fee to Republican candidates. But she has not provided any details on that, and a Palin spokesperson did not respond to requests for clarification.)
[Tea Party Nation founder] Phillips has bragged publicly that the tickets covering both the convention and the speech have sold out. Yet Tea Party insiders say that's not the whole story. Anthony Shreeve is an activist in Dandridge, Tenn. who quit the convention organizing committee over the expensive ticket prices. He says he has it on good authority that most of the approximately 500 speech-only tickets have not been sold...
According to the internal Tea Party Nation documents, organizers were depending on Palin’s speech to lure a much larger crowd to the banquet in order to turn a profit. Based on cost estimates used by the organizers in the planning documents, if 1,100 people attend the banquet (600 of whom would also attend the convention), the event would cost the organizers about $401,200, including Palin's $115,000 speaking fee. If all the tickets are sold—both the $549 all-access tickets and the $349 dinner-only tickets—Phillips' group would net about $102,700. But if few of the banquet-only tickets are sold, the organizers are likely to end up seriously in the hole, depending on how much the group had to pay in advance to the hotel, which is charging $120 per person for the dinner. Shreeve observes, "It wouldn't surprise me if [Phillips] ends up filing for bankruptcy the day after." Tami Kilmarx, a nurse in Nashville who also resigned from the Tea Party Nation convention planning committee after falling out with Phillips, believes the convention may ultimately "completely disintegrate." She says that Phillips has been urged to give away remaining tickets to Palin’s speech to head off the embarrassment of having the former vice presidential candidate speaking to a half-empty room...
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/sarah-palins-tea-party-dinner-disaster
Talk about trickle down!
Yes, talk about it....
And Trickle-Down?
Still WAITING for YOUR economics savantness....
So WHAT are you BABBLING ABOUT Keynesians?
Are you saying that BORROWING MONEY with INTEREST to give to Banksters to continue their reckless gambling so that that gambling trickles down on the rest of of is NOT Keynesian?
You know when in reality they are just making money off of interest free loans and not really loaning out the money like a REAL BANK would....
Let's SEE some of your Economic prowness.....you know the same one YOU FAILED TO USE when you could REDEFINE free market the way you WANTED.....
Show us WHAT you GOT, lil Junie....
BESIDES your infantile cartoons and 5 year old based BASELESS FASCISTIC EMOTIONAL attack, attack, attacks
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