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Hey all, I thought it would be nice, for those of you interested, to post a link where you can find a tea party near you and give you a place to post your experiences if you have the chance to go to one tomorrow the 15th of april, tax day.
Here is the link:Tax Day Tea Party
On the right hand side towards the top of the page it says choose a state. Click on your state to find the nearest tea party to you! After you come home please post your experience here!
Thanks,
Mark Avery
so, which one are you going to?
i will continue to be drinking my tea at home, just baked some biscotti earlier. i would like to support the economy by buying the finished product, but it's not good and the ones that were good the store doesn't stock anymore. i still enjoy my party.
:roflmao:roflmao Nice gugi!Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
I will be going to the one in Nashville, Tenn. hope to see you all there, or at least one somewhere.
I really wanted this to be a real grassroots campaign.. But like everything else, just another way to push lobbyist agendas...
Think Progress » Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests
From an outsiders pov, it is interesting to see that in US politics, one half of the voters is always doing its best to make sure that the winner fails, rather than to do everything they can to make it work.
No finger pointing btw. The dems did it under Bush, and now the reps do it under O'Bama.
And if you believe this, you probably believe that the liberals will sprinkle fairy dust (liberal speak for our tax dollars) on our problems and make them all go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slartibartfast
No. I think between the bush-obama administrations everyone panicked and threw money at the problem without actually spending 5 minutes to look at the bills.Quote:
Originally Posted by fccexpert
I do believe these "Tea Parties" are a farce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
From the media coverage point of view, you are most likely correct. I will be enjoying this farce in the afternoon as many of my friends will be, regardless of how much it will be ridiculed by the liberals and the numb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slartibartfast
PS: No, we were not hired to participate. I do not think your Astroturfing comparison works here.
Excellent. Freedom of Assembly is a good thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparq
btw, What have I said in the past that marks me as a, "Fairy dust sprinkling liberal"?
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 :mace:
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:Quote:
Originally Posted by jockeys
Balance of power is a fragile thing. Who knows, perhaps they might eventually help a rise of a 3rd party? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jockeys
+1. With no direction or plan of action tied to this movement, it doesn't seem worthwhile. My take? Here:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/28...4235fc8484.jpg
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Originally Posted by jockeys
Let me start by saying, The Tea Parties have nothing to do with partisan politics. Rep/dem makes no difference it's the federal process itself that's out of control.
The original tea party was about the government not listening to it's citizens,and the citizens having no recourse for injustices done them.
Is this one any differen't? No! The first bailout was rejected by the citizens and congress, a week later they were forced to pass it anyway, with added pork spending. Do you honestly think that the government represents You,Your family,and Your rights or freedoms? Did you have any say in the bailouts? Did you have any input in the federal phone tapping/tracking laws? Or for that matter the recent trend to give up freedom in the name of supposed safety? I didn't!
The fact is, for the last several years the federal government has done whatever the hell it wants,trampling on states rights and personal freedoms granted us by the constitution.I could easily post thousands of links demonstrating these facts,but rather than having you click a link and pick apart the information i would rather you research it yourself so that you know where the information comes from.Please don't take the word of talk show hosts,bloggers or lobbyist with their own personal agenda,It's common for some people to attach themselves to a movement,that doesn't mean they speak for or represent the movement itself.
Will the tea parties change the world tomorrow? No. What they will do is bring attention to the government,of the citizens disenfranchisement and make more citizens aware of the overwhelming corruption in our federal government.
I for one applaud their effort to retain the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,knowing the founding fathers warned of the dangers of centralized government usurping the rights of the citizens.It's worth noting that the founding fathers,who created this country would have been executed as traitors or terrorists had they been caught by the British government,and some were.
...jon
It is part of our "checks and balances" system where people are allowed to freely express their lack of desire to pull with the team. Bloodshed and apathy are the true underpinnings of the foundation of the American style of government. Today only one of these has survived... Apathy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno
if everyone protests the other point of view enough then we all get want we want a government that does hopefully very little. the government that governs less, governs best!
the European mind has issues with that concept i understand. :chop:
Vote all the incumbents out. Then vote those guys out.
Repeat as necessary.
Hey guys, read this:
Thousands of Anti-Tax 'Tea Party' Protesters Turn Out in U.S. Cities - Presidential Politics | Political News - FOXNews.com
Brad, you can read this one:
Nationwide 'tea party' protests blast spending - CNN.com
Looks like a great turn out!
'Tis one of my favorite prints blade wielder!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blade Wielder
This is what it accomplished jockeys: Treasury banking on return of billions - Washington TimesQuote:
Originally Posted by jockeys
Here are the specific paragraphs that grabbed my attention:
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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.
Good thing there are newspaper opeds to tell us how things happen, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by JMS
Except it isn't an op ed.Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
I see it's WT, happens to the best of them.
allow me to be the first to express my pleasant surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMS
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."Quote:
Originally Posted by JMS
-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 :D
Albany NY around 3k people not bad for a Wednesday event scheduled 11am to 2pm.
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Originally Posted by freebird
I went to the one in Lexington, KY.
We had a very nice gathering.
A liberal website puts it at over 200,000 nationwide but the estimates from the groups doing the counting is a little more than 1,000,000 at over 850 tea parties across the USA.Quote:
Originally Posted by freebird
There were 20,000 alone in Atlanta and I heard that there were 20,000 in sacramento.
In San Francisco there were 4 tea parties with a total turn out of 2,000 people! I would've thought it a big deal if only 500 turned up in San Francisco!
We have stood by quietly for many years while small special interest groups and unscrupulous politicians took control of the helm of our great country! We can only blame ourselves. Finally, we are waking up and saying "we want our country back! We want our Constitution back! We want common sense, common decensy, and accountability in our government!"
Did this old heart good to see!!
I went to one. I am told there will be another TEA party on May 18th.
I might be able to make that one. The family situation shouldn't be a factor then.Quote:
Originally Posted by honedright
I knew a number of people who went to the party in KC and all of them have reported between 4-5k people, not a bad showing if you ask me. The best part was that it was a mix of left and right. Doubleplusgood!