Thursday, April 16, 2009
TEA Time in America
WOW! Could it really be possible that a majority of Americans are finally waking up and realizing how oppressive our federal government has become? Nothing could make me happier.
I attended the Gainesville TEA Party yesterday afternoon and was impressed at the turnout for liberty in this liberal bastion of Alachua County. I estimated about 500 people there at 5:00 which doesn't sound like a lot of people but, for a weekday afternoon in Gainesville, this was fantastic.
People actually do care about freedom in this country still. Sometimes I have my doubts because all we are told by the imperial federal government and the mainstream media is that government is there to help us. That government is the only resource that can pull us out of our financial downward spiral. Often times I feel little hope for this republic because it seems like so many people really only want whatever they can get out of the government. Don't people realize that the government put us in this financial position by meddling in the free market to begin with?
It seems like so many, many years ago that John Kennedy implored Americans to ask not what your country can do for you but to ask what you can do for your country. Attitudes have changed so much since then that too many people are no longer asking the government to do something for them, but rather they are demanding that it be done. That attitude needs to change if we are to continue to be a free country.
Now if your desire is to be governed by an all-knowing, all-seeing, beneficient group of political pretenders, then you should be very satisfied with the man in the White House and his syncophants Pelosi and Reid on Capitol Hill and what they have been doing.
But if you believe that you are the owner of yourself and your life and your property, then you must be scared shitless about the recent direction of our government. It looks like Texas governor, Rick Perry, has the right idea. Texas has sent a resolution to the federal government asking them to stay out of the state's business and get back to following the Constitution as it was written.
The Tenth Amendment states very plainly that all powers not SPECIFICALLY enumerated in the constitution to the federal government shall be reserved to the states or to the people. That is certainly not the way it has been working for many, many years. Federal laws are written so as to force states to comply with them under penalty. They have no right in the Constitution to do that. Yet they do that all the time and nobody seems to care that it isn't constitutional anymore.
Until the TEA parties began. Thank you Rick Santelli for your rant at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in February. You are a true patriot. TEA, which stands for Taxed Enough Already, is a grassroots movement that hopefully will outlive tax day protests. We need to take drastic action to stop the growth of our government while we still can. We are very close to having 50% of the population paying no taxes and once that threshhold is passed, hope may be lost to reverse the trend.
I love this country. I wouldn't live anywhere else. But the direction we are steering will destroy our ideals and our form of government completely. We the people must exercise our rights and shout out common sense to all the idiots that can't see past their socialistl bias.
There is still hope. And as the FairTax supporters signs read yesterday, Mr. Obama, give me liberty and you can keep the change!
OH
I attended the Gainesville TEA Party yesterday afternoon and was impressed at the turnout for liberty in this liberal bastion of Alachua County. I estimated about 500 people there at 5:00 which doesn't sound like a lot of people but, for a weekday afternoon in Gainesville, this was fantastic.
People actually do care about freedom in this country still. Sometimes I have my doubts because all we are told by the imperial federal government and the mainstream media is that government is there to help us. That government is the only resource that can pull us out of our financial downward spiral. Often times I feel little hope for this republic because it seems like so many people really only want whatever they can get out of the government. Don't people realize that the government put us in this financial position by meddling in the free market to begin with?
It seems like so many, many years ago that John Kennedy implored Americans to ask not what your country can do for you but to ask what you can do for your country. Attitudes have changed so much since then that too many people are no longer asking the government to do something for them, but rather they are demanding that it be done. That attitude needs to change if we are to continue to be a free country.
Now if your desire is to be governed by an all-knowing, all-seeing, beneficient group of political pretenders, then you should be very satisfied with the man in the White House and his syncophants Pelosi and Reid on Capitol Hill and what they have been doing.
But if you believe that you are the owner of yourself and your life and your property, then you must be scared shitless about the recent direction of our government. It looks like Texas governor, Rick Perry, has the right idea. Texas has sent a resolution to the federal government asking them to stay out of the state's business and get back to following the Constitution as it was written.
The Tenth Amendment states very plainly that all powers not SPECIFICALLY enumerated in the constitution to the federal government shall be reserved to the states or to the people. That is certainly not the way it has been working for many, many years. Federal laws are written so as to force states to comply with them under penalty. They have no right in the Constitution to do that. Yet they do that all the time and nobody seems to care that it isn't constitutional anymore.
Until the TEA parties began. Thank you Rick Santelli for your rant at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in February. You are a true patriot. TEA, which stands for Taxed Enough Already, is a grassroots movement that hopefully will outlive tax day protests. We need to take drastic action to stop the growth of our government while we still can. We are very close to having 50% of the population paying no taxes and once that threshhold is passed, hope may be lost to reverse the trend.
I love this country. I wouldn't live anywhere else. But the direction we are steering will destroy our ideals and our form of government completely. We the people must exercise our rights and shout out common sense to all the idiots that can't see past their socialistl bias.
There is still hope. And as the FairTax supporters signs read yesterday, Mr. Obama, give me liberty and you can keep the change!
OH
# posted by OH @ 8:58 AM 
