The interesting thing is that most of the Tea party leadership...is from THE MIDDLE WEST...
These middle west Republicans don't have it made... they are not rich.
Just the opposite... The middle west working class is in a huge Depression ... and yet they provide a vast number of "Tea Party Leaders"....Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky etc...
The Tea party is not centered in New York or California...arguably the centers of wealth and international capital in America...
Most of these middle west working people don't want cuts in Social Security or Medicare...many of them are surviving on these programs...
That is why I notice a push developing for massive cuts in the defense (war) budgets...
The bogus wars that Washington has allowed to languish for 10+ years...are mostly optional or completely without a defined goal or end game...
So the Tea Party is on the march...but I don't see Social Security as being the target...rather the Pentagon...!
The money elites who financed the Tea Party are playing with fire here... Corporate America loves defense spending...even if it hates Social Security...
The Tea Party could be a Frankenstein Monster for its elite "creators...!
But never underestimate the ability of money to distort public opinion...especially with the tool of Fox news playing 24/7 in fly-over-country...