Where did you get THAT notion of the Tea Party? We're not saying "don't pay the rent and stop feeding the kids", we're saying "move into a smaller apartment that we can actually afford AND can afford to feed everyone AND save enough to pay off the massive credit card bill".
[EDIT per responses: sometimes you have to threaten to stop paying the bills in order to persuade others to, in fact, move into the smaller apartment and stop swiping the credit card as if it costs nothing. It's called "brinksmanship", based on the premise "either we stop spending so d@mned much now by choice or we're going to have, in fact, nothing to spend later"; a rhetorical device both sides use.]
BTW: I run http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com precisely to help people see how they can afford decent meals for just a buck a plate. Nobody needs to starve when you can eat for a day for just $3.
> "Where did you get THAT notion of the Tea Party? "
I'd imagine based on the behavior of the representatives they sent to congress. In particular, regarding the debt ceiling fiasco in which the position of legislators the Tea Parties endorsed, supported and voted for was quite clearly: "the government may have agreed to buy certain things on the nation's credit card, but we're able to block payment of the bill, so we're willing to force the country to default unless you come up with more spending cuts".
[EDIT per responses: sometimes you have to threaten to stop paying the bills in order to persuade others to, in fact, move into the smaller apartment and stop swiping the credit card as if it costs nothing. It's called "brinksmanship", based on the premise "either we stop spending so d@mned much now by choice or we're going to have, in fact, nothing to spend later"; a rhetorical device both sides use.]
BTW: I run http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com precisely to help people see how they can afford decent meals for just a buck a plate. Nobody needs to starve when you can eat for a day for just $3.