Thousands rally in Illinois.
With the White House in the background, people protest at a TEA party.
4,000 congregated on the Michigan capitol.
More than 4,000 rallied at the Alamo in San Antonio.
If you aren't familiar, TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already. And, if this is news to you, I can't blame you. From what I've seen, the media has not covered this event as the marvel that it is/was. It's so sad we've been informed more in the past week about the President's new family dog than we have this nationwide grass roots movement. I'll let commentator Glenn Beck tell you what the rallies were about:
This is what the tea parties are about:
It's about spending — too much spending, to be specific. The idea that a business is too big to fail is anti-American; we've always been for the underdog.
It's about putting my family — my children — under $12.8 trillion in debt; all it took was two presidents and six months.
It's about the idea that we're all socialists now.
It's about the idea that the government can force companies, banks and states to take money and the strings that are attached to it, that they didn't want.
It's about power — too much power going to federal government.
It's about corruption — too much corruption, in both parties.
It's about the rule of law — that no one is above the law: if you're here legally or illegally, it applies-never too rich or powerful.
It's about if you write the tax code you should pay your taxes.
It's about the Republic, not mob rule.
It's about the concept of free speech — we've been called insane, lunatics and worse, just for speaking out.
It's about the years of lies from both parties — a Republican Party that claims to be for small government but gives us Medicare Part D that's got $17 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
It's about hypocrisy — both parties claim to be the most ethical, but we get corruption and not one damn person in Washington to speak out against it.
It's about the media that gets into bed with one party and has moved so far left that it can't even begin to see we're not extremists, we're moms and dads who just want to have a Republic for our children; but they can't see it.
But I'm the extremist.
Bush and Obama spend or put us on the hook for $12.8 trillion, but I'm the extremist?
Cap and Trade without any plan on who pays the taxes or where the money goes, but I'm the extremist?
States are looking to apply retroactive taxes — that's like changing the rules in the middle of the game — but I'm the extremist?
Vilifying AIG executives, without any law being broken, just for accepting money they were owed, but I'm the extremist?
Bush and Obama have taken over and want to take over banks, car manufacturers and insurance companies, but I'm the extremist?
The politicians in the House and Senate stuff $20 billion in pork and earmarks into spending bills when we have to beg the Chinese to loan us that money, and I'm the extremist?
A Supreme Court justice and Harold Koh, who will help run the State Department, talk about trans-nationalism and by definition a diminished role for the Constitution, but I'm the extremist?
Politicians openly talk of the Fairness Doctrine — or its ugly twin, "localism" — and curtailing my free speech, but I'm the extremist?
Unions and big labor politicians want to take away the right to a secret ballot, but I'm the extremist?
I believe in the Constitution. I believe in the Founding Fathers. I believe in the American people. When did believing those things make someone — anyone — an extremist?
I'm not the extremist.
I learned something from a lawyer friend of mine who won lots of cases in front of judges and lawyers — I asked him how he won so many cases. He said it's easy: If the law supports my client's position I argue the law. If not, I argue the facts. If the facts don't support my client's position, I just attack the opposition.
They can't attack the message, so I guess they have to target the messenger.
Wow! If you can't get behind that, I don't know what you're getting behind. Maybe you should look into the spending and voting record of the politicians you are voting for. It is YOUR money they are budgeting, or rather, spending frivolously. Well, I mean, it WAS your money. It's now AIG, GMC, Chrysler, CitiBank, and many other for-profit companies. Look into it.
And, even if you've been behind the bailouts and government spending spree, maybe you should look into the aftermath and re-evaluate your support. This information comes from a Robert Gibbs interview by ABC News' Jake Tapper. Gibbs was questioned earlier this week about a report that the Obama administration released in January -- which showed what could happen to the unemployment rate if their world saving stimulus package was not passed. Here are the highlights:
1) By their own estimation, the stimulus isn’t working as planned: The administration’s own estimates said that if the stimulus would pass, the unemployment rate would never rise above 8%. Its peak would be around 7.9% around the end of the year. Well…It’s at 8.5% already, and most economists seem to think it’s getting worse before it gets better.
2) By their own estimation, the stimulus might be making things worse: The administration’s report showed that the unemployment rate would be about 8.1% right now if we had done NOTHING. So, it’s either that the stimulus plan is actually making things worse, or the economy is significantly worse than they thought.
3) What does this do to their estimates?: If their economic prognosis was this far off, this soon, what does this do to their deficit estimates 6 or 8 years out? They already were very ugly, but doesn’t this make them far worse?
Now, they do admit that there are high levels of uncertainty in their estimates–but this is the scenario that they’ve planned for. It’s early proof that the charges of “rosy scenarios” were correct.
Now who’s ready for their universal healthcare estimates?
2 comments:
It is scary. I wasn't able to go due to scheduling conflicts, but they have reported that about 5000 people were at the main one here. There were several. They've all said it was so great to have people from all races, financial levels, and just all different people all have one thing in common....Demanding acountability.
Scary times.
I think the best sign I saw yesterday at ours was "I never thought I'd miss Bill Clinton." How true is that? We just thought it was bad then.
But isn't it nice to know that because we are pro life, and don't like what the government is doing....we are now "possible terrorists"?
I know what their intent was with that statement....they just took it WAY too far.
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