http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/28/why-is-senator-kirk-still-voting-on-legislation/
]]>My personal belief is that taxpayer approval of spending is needed, like a year ago, maybe longer.
Do you have a better idea on how to get government to serve the taxpayer?
]]>But whatever we call ourselves, we need a platform/set of questions.
We’re way too low profile right now, and it’s way too easy to ignore us.
A platform is quick, free advertising. Maybe someone in the media will actually write about it.
]]>As a movement, today, the concept has been drawing concerned and frustrated right-thinkers together, pushing back against run-away leftist government, first vocally, and more recently politically with votes and pressure on incumbents. Yay!
But as a political ‘Party’, officially organized under local, state and national statutes? We would have Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and, what, Teas?
I’d suggest that organizing an official, so-called ‘Tea Party’ is both pointless and counterproductive, but the ‘movement’ should, by its nature, attract attention and empower members of any legitimate ‘party’, or none, to think, act and vote increasingly like constitutional conservatives and either clean up their own party or switch to strenthen a better one.
Luv ya, Coriann
]]>I move that we create a temporary platform here at taxdayteaparty.com
We debate, create and vote on a platform. And each of us commits to sending it to our representative, and asking what they think about it.
I suggest this partly because I think the Tea Party is arrogant. Even if we have good ideas, how far will they get without representatives?
]]>This is probably too touchy to make part of any platform.
But our nation’s young people - our future - are getting crushed by Social “security.”
The stock market builds wealth. Why aren’t we giving young people - or even the unborn - stock for their retirement?
Do young people know that Social “security”/Medicare eats up 15.3% of their paycheck? 7.65% is visible on their paycheck. Their employer is forced, by law, to match that.
]]>It occurs to me that When a company or person goes bankrupt, their owned assets are subject to forfeiture.
Therefore, when the U.S. defaults on payments to our creditors, what’s to keep them from siezing BLM land? American missles and troops? And what do we do when our new neighbors decide to cut off traffic and access?
It’s amazing how much American soil is owned by foreign governments already. There goes the neighborhood! And all because we have to acquire and consume so much more than we can afford!
]]>Possible ways to do this are:
1. Do you support taxpayer approval of spending? If not, why not?
2. Do you support instant runoff voting?
3. Do you support public seed money for new candidates?
4. Do you support a 32 hour work week, to spread the work?
5. Do you support a Constitutional Convention, to move up midterm elections?
6. Do you support the immediate seating of Scott Brown?
These issues aren’t going away. Although Brown’s election took a lot of pressure off.
]]>“We can’t expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism,
but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism,
until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.”
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
Nikita Khrushchev
]]>Having been stung by Brown, what is your plan?
Are you going to let the trillion plus deficits roll?
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