Thread: CHECK HERE FOR A TEA PARTY NEAR YOU!!

Originally Posted by jockeys

I guess I just fail to see the point of the tea parties. the original tea party's goal was wanton property destruction in protest of one specific law. after checking out the website, this one reminds me more of: Die Hippie, Die - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

what does all this togetherness amount to besides a lot of backpatting and choirpreaching? if you want to accomplish something, go vote third party

This is what it accomplished jockeys: Treasury banking on return of billions - Washington Times

Here are the specific paragraphs that grabbed my attention:

The big-spending Treasury Department has suddenly become parsimonious with what remains of its $700 billion bailout fund, seeking to stretch the money by counting on institutions to return or forgo $57 billion of the $250 billion originally slated for bank rescues.


The sudden thriftiness is driven by a calculation that public anger over the bailouts and big bonuses for executives - expressed in "tea party" protests across the nation Wednesday - has killed any chance that Congress will approve additional funding any time soon.

Originally Posted by JMS

This is what it accomplished jockeys: Treasury banking on return of billions - Washington Times

Good thing there are newspaper opeds to tell us how things happen, eh?

Originally Posted by gugi

Good thing there are newspaper opeds to tell us how things happen, eh?

Except it isn't an op ed.

I see it's WT, happens to the best of them.

Originally Posted by JMS

This is what it accomplished jockeys: Treasury banking on return of billions - Washington Times

Here are the specific paragraphs that grabbed my attention:

allow me to be the first to express my pleasant surprise.

Originally Posted by JMS

This is what it accomplished jockeys: Treasury banking on return of billions - Washington Times

I sincerely hope that stopping this thing half way isn't worse than letting it ride all the way out. Unfortunately, there is no way to know since we are in totally untested waters in the most inexact of sciences. So what is the next step? keep having tea-parties and hope that something else you agree with happens? I still say people need to start putting the "act" back into "activisim."

-Rob

How many did go to a tea party? I was planning on it but a family emergency came up.

we were there!!!!

i went to one wit h a group of folks from work... we had lunch and drinks later and wrote it off on our taxes

Albany NY around 3k people not bad for a Wednesday event scheduled 11am to 2pm.

Originally Posted by freebird

How many did go to a tea party? I was planning on it but a family emergency came up.

I went to the one in Lexington, KY.

We had a very nice gathering.