There is a political movement in the USA called the Tea Party that included some demonstrations a couple years ago where they waved tea bags and called themselv

There is a political movement in the USA called the Tea Party that included some demonstrations a couple years ago where they waved tea bags and called themselves teabaggers as a nickname. Of course, teabagging has a risqué sexual connotation so the movement's opponents latched onto the nickname as the proponents dropped it. The Tea Partiers are known for budget illiteracy, often suggesting impossible or mathematically absurd ideas to arrange government spending. At the lowest levels they suggest that cutting foreign aid and sex education will balance the federal budget. At the highest levels, they praise "courageous" budget plans like Paul Ryan's hand-waving and prayer plan to balance the budget by cutting taxes on the wealthiest and hoping that growth trickles down to all of us and health care costs magically stop rising. In between are the signs waving "keep the government's filthy hands off my medicare," the epitome of Tea Party campaigning this year. So the story suggests that Tea Partiers have an aversion to basic arithmetic.