Is the Republican/Tea Party Congress helping to inspire consumer spending?

Al Sharpton is taking on the tea party establishment with bottom line statements featured in the video clip below. How easy would it be to repeat this observation over and over?



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Sharpton on tea party objective: "Some of your colleagues in the tea party caucus, and some of your colleagues there in the congress feel the way to inspire consumers is to cut their safety net, not generate jobs, threaten their social security, and throw in threatening their Medicaid and Medicare...that certainly makes people go out and shop and buy things."