What is The Tea Party
I first wrote this in February of 2010 because of the misleading information from liberal and conservative media. Nothing has changed after 18 months. Here it is again with a few added statements. Please pass along to anyone still believing the media mantra.
THE TEA PARTY
One cannot understand the Tea Party until you realize what it is not. It is not a third political party or a wing of the Republican Party. There is no leader and the Tea Party is not tied to any specific candidate (ignore the media nonsense). It is not any specific organization. There are many different groups in the United States (Oath Keepers, Freedom Works, 912 Project, etc). The Tea Party is not a specific number of people that can be sent to hell. Please explain to Maxine Waters.
So what is it? The Tea Party is a way of thinking. It is the first nationwide conservative grassroots movement since the Founding Fathers. It believes the proper role of government in a free society consists of constitutional conservative principles and basic common sense. Those who believe in Tea Party Principles know it’s wrong to apologize for America, have legislation shoved down one’s throat, bail out failed companies and basically everything else the Obama administration has done since January of 2009.
Eighty per cent of Americas have some level of Tea Party Blood in them. The election of Scott Brown in January, 2010 proved that even entitlement loving Ted Kennedy Democrats will rise up and say no when they feel tyranny has replaced liberty. The November 2010 midterm election was a stunning victory for those who believe in Liberty over the Obama Socialist Agenda.
Tea Party anger had been brewing since the first Bush presidency. It accelerated with Clinton and George W, hitting a boiling point in October 08 with passing of the first Bailout. That was the single event that pushed many hard working Americans over the edge and into political activism. The Tea Party believes that excessive Government Intervention is destroying Individual Freedom and Capitalism. Both political parties have been guilty of this for decades at the local, state and most grievously at the Federal Level. Our citizens were being robbed by Bush just as the Obama administration is now doing. The name Congress gives the latest piece of legislation is irrelevant. It always means more government control and less individual freedom.
Why would any clear thinking American want the Federal Government to have more responsibility? Need I remind everyone about Amtrak, Fannie, Freddie, TSA, Post Office, etc? As Milton Friedman said “When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.” Obama actually believes in the “Central Planner” concept and that Americans have too much individual freedom. Please consult your history books to see what happened to the people and economies of countries that adopted the central planner philosophy?
Memo to Republicans: There is no basic difference between many of the current Republicans and Democrats in Congress. If third base represents a Socialist agenda, the Democrats are already at home plate and the Republicans are rounding second in a full gallop.
Memo to Democrats: Your Democratic leadership is not the Party of JFK. He would be aghast at the likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Most of you are hardworking Americans with common sense and a belief in self reliance. The well being of your family is far more important than blindly following past voting patterns. There will be an emergence of good candidates from both parties. Please identify and vote for them in 2012.
Who’s welcome in the Tea Party Tent? Anyone who believes in self reliance and shuns the entitlement mentality that has infected so many of our citizens. Years of voting Republican doesn’t get you in, any more than voting Democratic since Roosevelt keeps you out. If you’ve come to the realization that excessive government is always the problem and never the solution, please join us.
The very words of our Founding Fathers cry out for all modern day patriots to come forward. This country is now in the “deep end of the pool” as it relates to our Republic’s survival. Citizens everywhere are waking up to the theft both parties have been inflicting for years. Every unnecessary government employee and program is another increase in the power of Government and a corresponding decrease in individual freedom. America’s strength is the private sector. Government is the drain. Every unnecessary government employee is a person on welfare. Effective and necessary government is a good thing. Anything else is theft.
There is a definite division between people in the United States. Those that want government to take care of them and those that find that thought repugnant. We may not be able to change the minds of the former but we can certainly reduce the machinery that caters to them. In conclusion, those of us in the Tea Party movement want American to stick with the original Hope & Change.
HOPE = DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CHANGE= CONSTITUTION
Jim Dooley November, 2011
LEE 912 NAPLES/FORT MYERS TEA PARTYFort Myers, FL
I first wrote this in February of 2010 because of the misleading information from liberal and conservative media. Nothing has changed after 18 months. Here it is again with a few added statements. Please pass along to anyone still believing the media mantra.
THE TEA PARTY
One cannot understand the Tea Party until you realize what it is not. It is not a third political party or a wing of the Republican Party. There is no leader and the Tea Party is not tied to any specific candidate (ignore the media nonsense). It is not any specific organization. There are many different groups in the United States (Oath Keepers, Freedom Works, 912 Project, etc). The Tea Party is not a specific number of people that can be sent to hell. Please explain to Maxine Waters.
So what is it? The Tea Party is a way of thinking. It is the first nationwide conservative grassroots movement since the Founding Fathers. It believes the proper role of government in a free society consists of constitutional conservative principles and basic common sense. Those who believe in Tea Party Principles know it’s wrong to apologize for America, have legislation shoved down one’s throat, bail out failed companies and basically everything else the Obama administration has done since January of 2009.
Eighty per cent of Americas have some level of Tea Party Blood in them. The election of Scott Brown in January, 2010 proved that even entitlement loving Ted Kennedy Democrats will rise up and say no when they feel tyranny has replaced liberty. The November 2010 midterm election was a stunning victory for those who believe in Liberty over the Obama Socialist Agenda.
Tea Party anger had been brewing since the first Bush presidency. It accelerated with Clinton and George W, hitting a boiling point in October 08 with passing of the first Bailout. That was the single event that pushed many hard working Americans over the edge and into political activism. The Tea Party believes that excessive Government Intervention is destroying Individual Freedom and Capitalism. Both political parties have been guilty of this for decades at the local, state and most grievously at the Federal Level. Our citizens were being robbed by Bush just as the Obama administration is now doing. The name Congress gives the latest piece of legislation is irrelevant. It always means more government control and less individual freedom.
Why would any clear thinking American want the Federal Government to have more responsibility? Need I remind everyone about Amtrak, Fannie, Freddie, TSA, Post Office, etc? As Milton Friedman said “When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.” Obama actually believes in the “Central Planner” concept and that Americans have too much individual freedom. Please consult your history books to see what happened to the people and economies of countries that adopted the central planner philosophy?
Memo to Republicans: There is no basic difference between many of the current Republicans and Democrats in Congress. If third base represents a Socialist agenda, the Democrats are already at home plate and the Republicans are rounding second in a full gallop.
Memo to Democrats: Your Democratic leadership is not the Party of JFK. He would be aghast at the likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Most of you are hardworking Americans with common sense and a belief in self reliance. The well being of your family is far more important than blindly following past voting patterns. There will be an emergence of good candidates from both parties. Please identify and vote for them in 2012.
Who’s welcome in the Tea Party Tent? Anyone who believes in self reliance and shuns the entitlement mentality that has infected so many of our citizens. Years of voting Republican doesn’t get you in, any more than voting Democratic since Roosevelt keeps you out. If you’ve come to the realization that excessive government is always the problem and never the solution, please join us.
The very words of our Founding Fathers cry out for all modern day patriots to come forward. This country is now in the “deep end of the pool” as it relates to our Republic’s survival. Citizens everywhere are waking up to the theft both parties have been inflicting for years. Every unnecessary government employee and program is another increase in the power of Government and a corresponding decrease in individual freedom. America’s strength is the private sector. Government is the drain. Every unnecessary government employee is a person on welfare. Effective and necessary government is a good thing. Anything else is theft.
There is a definite division between people in the United States. Those that want government to take care of them and those that find that thought repugnant. We may not be able to change the minds of the former but we can certainly reduce the machinery that caters to them. In conclusion, those of us in the Tea Party movement want American to stick with the original Hope & Change.
HOPE = DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CHANGE= CONSTITUTION
Jim Dooley November, 2011
LEE 912 NAPLES/FORT MYERS TEA PARTYFort Myers, FL
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