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Well, at least that’s why anyone who is partaking in the tea party protests today should be saying. Ya think they’ll be cleaning up after themselves, to save taxes? Or helping clean the water into which they’re dumping the tea, to save taxes? Maybe they’ll recycle the teabags at least?
If you need to get up to speed on what this is all about, Jen Nedeau has a great post here. Ohio Daily Blog is live-blogging the tea party in Cleveland. (Follow #OHtea on twitter.com – easiest way to do that is to go to summize.com and search on #OHtea.) Blogger Interrupted expects to post a video from today, but here’s the one from the last Cleveland Tea Party gathering.
Here’s an excellent video from Sarah Burris at CNN’s iReport with more reasons from young Americans re: why they pay taxes:
Tea partygoers argue that the protests are about what they feel has now, under Obama, become excessive spending and government expansion.
My question then is: what is the definition of excessive? Excessive to whom? Compared to what? Who defines the threshold for what is “excessive” spending?
There was bipartisan anger at former President Bush’s expansion of government and there’s also the spending on the war in Iraq which he refused to even list with the regular budget. Maybe we should have been having tea parties back then – I could agree with that.
But please – go ahead. Define for me why nothing before now was considered excessive enough to trigger a tea party.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:09 pm April 15th, 2009 in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, conservatives, democracy, Economy, George Bush, Government, leadership, Politics, Republicans, Social Issues, Taxes, Whitehouse09
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There was not a black Muslim extremist Socialist from Kenya in the Oval Office?
Duh. This stuff ain’t hard, Jill. Please pay attention!
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Forgot to mention in 1 above that the VSAS (Vessels Sarcasm Alert Scale) = 9
These are people arguing our government is presently fascist, without realizing that if we were living under a fascist regime, they wouldn’t be allowed to protest, much less have an entire news network devoted to cheering on their cause. These are people who don’t get that if you get to vote, you aren’t being taxed without representation. There are so many things wrong with these people intellectually, trust me, the fact that they are protesting in areas paid for and maintained by tax dollars is completely lost on them. COMPLETELY.
People are saying things that are not factual, distorting and inflaming. There has always been extreme elements in the country from people that bomb abortion clinics to those that raid animal research labs. I do not think that there are that many Timothy McVeigh’s….however the mindless rhetoric from the Right has and is firing them up. So the NSA issues memorandums, watch the far right its heated. Then you have the Right media icons taking that personal or personalizing that, very dangerous and foolish. As if to say hey I resemble that remark? When in reality you do not and should not.
It’s interesting that they don’t want to have THEIR MONEY spent on taxes, so instead they spend THEIR MONEY on tea and dump it in the water. (If they really wanted to emulate the Boston Tea Party, shouldn’t they be stealing Government Tea, anyway?)
Excessive government spending is a $1.8 trillion deficit.
We’re getting to the point where the government won’t be able to pay back its debt.
I hope all the solar panels are worth it.