In the “getting to know you” mood, visit Donald Douglas of Orange County, California or another Doug, Doug Powers.
Check out Pat Anderson, the folks from Pleasanton, California, Amy and Jenny from Atlanta.
Click around on the links and get to know each other…I expect we’ll all be hanging out a lot with each other in the next few years.
USA Tax Day Tea Party
Come one, come all; your future fate is at hand.
USA tax day tea party; all across this wonderful land.
Politicians spend your money and more, every single day.
Their pork thing is important; it keeps them rolling in hay.
They drive in limos and wear bling; take kickbacks and live high.
They never have to ride in a bus; or see their savings go bye bye.
So come out and protest, one time to remind them of our clout.
They work for us, but they forgot; its time to march and shout.
Wave a sign, be there today, chant some words; its important can’t you see?
Put the politicians out to pasture; throw the tea in the bay.
Get off that couch; don’t stick you head in the sand.
Take back your country, its your right; make a stand for our American land.
Roger that. Term limits, spending within the budget, fiscal responsibility. These are very good thoughts. However, until the majority of voters get educated concerning what “main stream” political parties are doing to them and correcting things by voting for honest independents, change will not occur. Who says we have to have either a Democrat or a Republican? The average voter does. It is very hard to change that thought process.
It will take years of activism to get the attention of Washington and effect change. It took years for Washington to become the decadent, dishonest, bureaucratic, self-perpetuating, monster problem that it is.
Here in Massachusetts the people that are going to the tea parties are from all parties and ideologies. They are just pissed off with the politicians, all of them just spending our money without deliberation.. They didn’t read all of the bail out bill and they loaded it with pork. My granddaughter will be paying a income tax of 50% or higher if we don’t stop an out of control congress.
Dawn (and everyone else). Think about it! How come Biden, Kennedy,et all, get reelected in perpetuity? Because they can! There are no term limits on anyone in government except the President. If we really want to stop this madness, than Term Limits must be the first order of the day! However, only congress has the authority to assign term limits. So we have a bit of a problem. I believe that there needs to be a national referendum, whereby all citizens everywhere can vote on the issue. However, only congress gets to make the law to bring about a national referendum. Congress get to vote on its own salary increases, Congress gets, etc., etc. We are like a cat chaseing it’s tail. The question is: What are we going to do about it? Any ideas??
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Hi all,
I suggest that everyone
see Aaron Russo’s movie.
“AMERICA: Freedom to Fascism”
- at the following URL:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173
the above link is for Google video and is free to see the whole movie.
and see the following websites:
http://www.GiveMeLiberty.org/
&
http://www.RestoreTheRepublic.net/
Thanks.
Lawrence Albert Connor
LC
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Okay, Suzie -
Just finished watching the video you recommended.
Brainwashing? Burning books?? Seriously???
Perhaps we’ve all just been too apathetic for too long, and allowed our governments to give themselves celebrity status. They hold themselves above us because WE LET THEM. How in the world did Biden get re-elected often enough to ’serve’ THIRTY-FIVE YEARS in the Senate?!?
We have grown lazy. It’s time for educated voters (and yes, that will require time spent reading, researching voting records, and paying attention) to create term limits until they’re in place.
Wow - didn’t expect personal responses. Thank you for taking the time! I will be attending two Tea Parties in Danville, CA (noon and evening) on the 15th, and have done as much as I can to encourage the local papers to cover the events.
I’m not backseat driving. Just trying to gently let ppl know that this is not JUST a Republican issue; many of the posts and blogs I’ve recently read appear to support the idea that it’s all about THE right, not EVERYONE’S RIGHTS.
For a Free Democratic Republic,
Dawn
Dawn, if the Tea Party movement seems unbalanced to you, but you care about it, the best thing you can do is to organize on behalf of the Tea Parties, speak up and make your own voice heard. If you backseat drive, what you think won’t matter.
Dawn,
There is a video of a Glenn Beck 9/12 gathering online. You can an idea from that. Watch the whole thing. It’s only about 5 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdOwgD5OsY
Having read the posts/blogs/commentary of both ‘Dougs’ and the Pleasanton, CA ‘tea partiers,’ I am extremely concerned about partisanship at these events.
All 3 are just about as far to the right as they accuse the other side of being to the left.
IMHO, most Americans have more common sense than to lockstep to any single ideological drummer. We are more well-rounded and thoughtful than that, which is why we’re so alarmed at runaway Government spending and politicians’ apparent use of the Constitution and Bill of Rights as toilet paper.
The Tea Party protests are, again IMHO, primarily about DIRTY POLITICS. We’ve ALL let our government slide into the sewer and it’s about time we yanked it out, hosed it down, cut off the spoiled bits and set it to work - FOR US - again.