RE: Tea Party candidate taken behind the woodshed by an old man asking a simple question
June 20, 2014 at 9:28 am
Quote:Mr. McDaniel responded to his support for federal spending by saying, “you do so by adding trillions on my children’s back, trillions of dollars we can’t recover from. Our country borrows 46 cents on every dollar.” Mr. Davis interrupted and said, “I don’t want this rote answer. I want to know how you will accomplish it.”Perhaps those octogenarians were curious as to how much of that reduction in federal spending would come at the expense of their medical care, and wanted Mr. Davis to leave so that Mr. McDaniel could in fact explain how he'd cut those federal dollars. And perhaps more importantly, where.
Mr. McDaniel backed away and sat down, and Mr. Davis was surrounded and eventually sent away by the octogenarians who had gathered to hear from the candidate.
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