Tea Party Movement

Mr. President, What’s Wrong With This Picture?

– IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
– IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
– IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
– IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
– IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
– IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
– IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
– IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET…………………………..
1 – A JOB,
2 – A DRIVERS LICENSE,
3 – SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
4 – WELFARE,
5 – FOOD STAMPS,
6 – CREDIT CARDS,
7 – SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
8 – FREE EDUCATION,
9 – FREE HEALTH CARE,
10 – A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON ,
11 – BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED
IN YOUR LANGUAGE,
12 – AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION…

Headed For A 2010 Depression With Revolution (Tea Party)?

The powers that be keep telling us that all is well and that we’re on the road to recovery. The powers that be either don’t know or they are lying. What’s worse than the coming total economic collapse (generally called a depression) is when you add to it a social revolution. We’re already seeing SIGNS of the social unrest seething to the top. Can you say Tea Party?

While the mainline press, which now no longer reports news but sells us the LIBERAL bias of the reporters, hypes the Obama mantra, the nation collapses.

People have had it, people are losing hope and you can read daily headlines that testify to such even though the reporters know not what they’re reporting. The various news outlets continually downplay the importance of the Tea Party and you saw what happened to the “Kennedy Seat”! One day you read about a man flying his plane into an IRS building and burning down his house to the IRS will not be able to recoup anything of value after his suicide.

The next day you read of a man who bulldozes his house rather than giving it back to the bakj in foreclosure.

Is anyone seeing what’s going on here? Can we simply blow off the web bot linguistics that has been predicting a revolution in America this summer ever since 2005? What do you think is going to happen when people find out that their pension funds are broke, when social security has to be cut back and reduced, and when banks no longer give you all of the money that you’ve entrusted them with? Are you under the belief that all of this cannot happen?

Think again!

As of Friday, February 19th, the number of bank failures (and branches) closed/reorganized count up to 4,448 since IndyMac in July 2008. Yes, the banks were reorganized, but how much longer can we play this PONZI scheme? Depending on your inculturated state this is either a replay of the Great Depression’s bank failure phase since clearly there hasn’t been anything near this scale of financial institutions failing in intervening times, or this is ‘just normal’ for a recession. And remember, without the bank bailouts of the ‘too big to fail’ it would already be obvious that we’re replaying the Great Depression.

China is no longer buying our JUNK. In fact China is now selling their T-bonds and bills.

The Fed is now buying its own offerings and thinking there’s no consequences. What’s going on in America today is more than just what the Tea Parties are about. What we’re facing is more than a political discontentment. We’re facing an all out bankruptcy of soul: that’s not good at all!

Contributor: Ernie Fitzpatrick
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A Small Business Person’s Perspective of the Tea Party Tax Protests

The Tea Party Tax Protest movement of recent weeks has garnered plenty of media attention.  Some …. like Fox news …. “Get It”.  Others ….. like MSNBC and CNN (Boooo!!) ….. unfortunately do NOT get it.

No matter your opinion, understanding, or level of support for the events and the movement …. no one can deny that a message was sent loud and clear.  By thousands of everyday Americans like you and me (pay attention Congress … that means VOTERS).

To discuss the events, keep up with what’s next …. and connect with other Tea Party supporters …. I suggest you go to    Tea Party

Why did thousands of Americans participate in these events (and likely will do so again in the future)?

Because our nation was founded on a set of principles that served us well for over 200 years. These principles made us the most powerful country in the world and most desirable to live in. I am greatly concerned our government is enamored with European principles of greater government power and control. These power hungry politicians are destroying what made us great — our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our freedom.

From my perspective as a small business owner, the tea party message is one I can relate to.

I think the tea party protests are as much or more about oppressive government than just merely taxes. People are getting fed up with the piles of regulations and restrictions …. on top of a tax burden higher than anyone can possibly justify.

Lincoln stated, (I paraphrase) “you cannot tear down the house of one man to build another”. To the contrary …. The Obama Administration and sitting Congress have declared war on many of us … hard working average Americana. Today …. the small business owner is being taxed and regulated to extinction.

Whether it was the family farm in the 1800′s, Henry Ford at the turn of the last century, or Google at the turn of this Century ….. American small business owners have created much of the wealth and the middle class of this country. They have built the “homes” for much of America.

Now, this Government appears to be intent on tearing down their (the small business owner’s) house to build the houses of those who did not have the creativity and the motivation to create their own wealth …… or who have destroyed their and others wealth (e.g. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, AIG, etc.)

Excessive taxation of those who have worked hard and have not failed ….. so Government can provide free handouts to reward their friends and buy votes ….. is NOT the American dream.

I think the message is important, even though it will be muted by a hostile press.

The people who attend these tea parties are simply sick and tired of the looters in our society treating the productive earners as their own personal ATM machines, and we’re not going to take it anymore. We’re not going to let the government borrow money it doesn’t have and create massive debt for our children and grandchildren …. just to fund expansionist government policies intended to grab ever larger segments of the economy from private producers.  Then nationalize them under the yoke of a tyrannical majority which seems to have forgotten the values on which our country was founded.

The current administration is cowardly in that it does not implement policies that saddle the creators of this tax, spend, and borrow driven mess; us (current taxpayers and voters); with the cost of cleaning it up. The current administration seeks to kick the can down the road to our children and grandchildren. People they will not need to count on for votes.

Our parents were the greatest generation. We are clearly the worst.

The US has gone from being a nurturing environment for entrepreneurs and small business owners to a corrupt, centrally planned socialist bureaucracy.

I don’t know who the legislatures are working for, but is isn’t your ‘every day’ working American.

So I strongly believe the Tea Party Tax protest is right on the money …. literally.   Basically …. “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore”.

My opinion of the Tea Party tax protest movement is that it has great potential to draw serious, long-lasting attention to the waste, misrepresentation and theft perpetrated by the Federal Government. I think if enough people continue to participate, it could result in a fundamental restructuring of tax law and how federal spending priorities are adopted.

The likely outcome will be quite different of course …. The pessimist in me sees the movement being co-opted by the Republican party as an organizing tool for their bid to take back Congress in the next election. Once they’ve accomplished this, it will be business as usual, with them blaming the Democrats and Obama for any failure to institute true tax reform and a radical reduction in government’s insatiable lust for money and control of every facet of our lives.

I think the basic concept of the Tea Party’s is sound. I am especially interested in seeing a reduction in onerous, non-representative taxation and bureaucratic government waste. I think large corporate interests, represented by high-priced lobbyists in Washington, have too long controlled where our money is spent. 

It has nothing to do with who is in the White House or what party you support, but everything to do with gov’t taking and wasting our money. Your money.  My money.

Contributor: Michael is the author of Small Business Resources Cafe with resources, tools, tips, & insights for small businesses. The Cafe is always open. So …. grab a cup of Joe & sit awhile!
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