Soros: Tea Party activists are being ‘used and deceived’

THE HILL:  “I think the people in the Tea Party are very decent people, hard-working,[George Soros] said. “They have been hit by a force that comes from somewhere which they can’t fully understand. And they are being misled.

“And they are misled by people who are using it for their selfish purposes, namely to remove regulations and reduce taxation,” he continued. “So reduce taxation and regulation. And they are being used and deceived.”…

Soros said he believed there is a danger from the GOP pushing spending cuts in a fragile economy.

“Doing this at a time when private demand is not strong enough, when investment by businesses is not strong enough to take up the slack, it creates a slack,” he said. “So unemployment, instead of coming down, is likely to remain pretty high.” …  (more)

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