Tea Parties
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Independence Day Tea Party Gala Extravaganza
Interest in politics bottoms out this time of year. People are in vacation mode, and elections are far away. Despite this and the scorching heat in some parts of the country, the Independence Day Tea Parties were a great success. Hundreds of thousands turned out at over 2,000 rallies in all 50 states. Even some mainstream media outlets have been forced to admit that the movement is significant and growing.
If the power-mad statists infesting Washington do succeed at destroying America and replacing it with a wretched, half-starved socialist slave state, it won't be without resistance.
Special thanks to readers who sent in pictures, videos, and tips: The Blogprof, Bubba, Charity, Claude, Conan, Eric, Forest, Heather M, Henry, Janet, Joe, JustAl, Karin, Mark Polege, MoogieP, nancz, Oiao, TED, Tom G, and Varla.
Here's a consolidated cross section of the weekend's events:
Adams Center, New York
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Dallas, Texas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Kona, Hawaii
Lansing, Michigan
Leawood, Kansas
Parker, Texas
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix, Arizona
Portland, Oregon
Raleigh, North Carolina
San Jose, California
Shreveport–Bossier City, Louisiana
Stafford County, Virginia
Statesboro, Georgia
Tucson, Arizona
Ventura, California
Washington, Missouri
posted by Mr. Punky Kitten @ 7:43 AM
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1 Comments:
I like the Internet. It's a place where people from radically different viewpoints can begin a dialogue from worlds away.
I identify with the Centrist point of view and tend to look for facts to prove or disprove statements made by either side of a political debate.
For example, something that these Tea Party members seem to be stating is: We are against a monetary cost to America because spending federal money on local projects is somehow misguided.
The Tea Party, one that I take it that you have identified yourself with, is making statements to the effect of “We (meaning the locals) know how to spend our (meaning federal money) money best”. This is a paraphrased quote from the local Tea Party president Mike Wilson.
It’s been the stated position of the leadership of your organization that this federal money is completely wasted by misguided and uniformed Washington politicians on meaningless projects that they (federally) don't understand.
However, during the early July visit by the Vice President, a small and vocal number of your fellow Tea Baggers were present, outside the gathering, to voice their right to protest. To back the play of their president.
Protest is a valuable right that we enjoy as Americans. A right that very few other countries observe. Try calling President Ahmadinejad of Iran a “delusional tool of the Caliphate” in public, in Iran and see what kinds of fun things happen to you.
Even if your claim is unpopular or it flies in the face of fact or reason all Americans have the right to peaceable gather and speak out.
But in direct contradiction of this statement, that this money is being forced or somehow misguided by the federal government - many key local politicians including the Mayor, City Council members, members of the House of Representatives and most importantly local Community Council leadership were all present during the Vice Presidents visit. They were gathered at a dilapidated rust belt icon in Cincinnati – the long defunct Cannery Company in Northside to ensure that this money would go to a deserving project.
The Cannery building project has just been granted critical funding to clean up years of lead waste and continue refurbishment in order to turn from a dangerous eyesore, that has sat vacant for decades, into affordable housing, restaurants and shops.
How is funding a project to turn blight into business bad for Cincinnati? How is this project viewed as a misguided expenditure of tax payer dollars?
Cleaning up a polluted and long abandoned factory and turing it into apartments and small businesses must be viewed as a win in either a Centrists or a Right Wingers point of view.
For you an your organization to insist that you’d rather have your tax dollars, by the billion, spent on chasing ghosts in the desert or worse to sit idly while critical projects continue to go ignored is completely beyond my powers of comprehension.
Thank you for the opportunity to address this issue. I welcome any questions of comments that you may have on this issue.
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