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On Saturday, July 4th, be part of the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party rally in your community. Help organize a local TEA Party. http://www.teapartyday.com/

Obama adds 78,000 new employees to government payroll. 2009 budget grows to a deficit of $1.8 trillion, more than four times higher than last year’s all time high and 50% of total budget

With the national debt already out of control, President Obama has added 78,000 new government jobs to the federal payroll since he took office. Obama’s increase in the number of government employees will add hundreds of millions of dollars to our debt. If history is any measure, these jobs will never be eliminated. They will simply add to the mountains of debt we are leaving our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Government spending is filled with pork earmarks like this: The National Institutes of Health will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.

Obama and Congress continue to spend money the government doesn’t have. The deficit for the current year will be $1.8 trillion, 50% of the total budget. In order to pay interest on the debt, the government will have to cut spending, raise taxes, print more paper money or borrow from another country like China, which already holds billions of U.S. debt. With no end of spending in sight, some estimates project that our national debt could reach $8 trillion by the year 2014.

Obama and liberals in Congress are taking us down the road to socialism, seizing control of key banks, insurance companies, the automobile industry, etc. They are currently working on a government funded national health care program which is expected to cost roughly $2 trillion while rationing services.

Are you fed up with a Congress and a president who:

Voted for a $500 billion tax bill without even reading it?
Are spending trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren will be paying?
Consistently give special interest groups billions of dollars in earmarks to help get themselves re-elected?
Want to take your wealth and redistribute it to others?
Punish those who practice responsible financial behavior and reward those who do not?
Admit to using the financial hurt of millions as an opportunity to push their political agenda?
Run up trillions of dollars of debt and then sell that debt to countries such as China?
Want government controlled health care?
Want to take away the right to vote with a secret ballot in union elections?
Refuse to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into our country?
Appoint a defender of child pornography to the Number 2 position in the Justice Department?
Want to force doctors and other medical workers to perform abortions against their will?
Want to impose a carbon tax on your electricity, gas and home heating fuels?
Want to reduce your tax deductibility for charitable gifts?
Take money from your family budget to pay for their federal budget?

If so, help organize and/or participate in a Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party in your community on July 4. You choose the time and the location.

GET INVOLVED!

Why Is This Idea Important?

Enough Said--- STOP Government Control, Stop the MADNESS!
Comments
sallietoo 8 months ago
The young Iranian people are fighting for their freedom & getting butchered in the streets because they want their freedom, free uncorrupted elections, government for the people and by the people. We the people of the U.S.A. have a free republic government and if we want to keep that free republic government that is rapidly being restructured by the Obama DSA Socialist who embrace Marx, Lenin and Alinsky, WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO STAND UP NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE - TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS IN CONGRESS "NO" MORE IRRESPONSIBLE, UNACCOUNTABLE, WASTEFUL, RECKLESS SPENDING, "NO" MORE EAR MARKS & PORK TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS, LOBBYIST & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS i.e. ACORN, "NO" AMNESTY, "NO" SOCIALIST NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, "NO" CAP & TRADE, "NO" MORE BAIL OUTS & "YES" TO BALANCING THE BUDGET!!!!!
Moderator 8 months ago
MOAR CAPS!!!!1
travisberthelot 8 months ago
This is the only "non idea" idea that has my vote.

So I ask how is protesting on July, 4 an idea?
sallietoo 8 months ago
YOUR KIDDING, RIGHT?? OUR ELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE NOT LISTENING TO US - THEY ARE
SUPPOSE TO BE REPRESENTING US NOT THEMSELVES - HOW ELSE DO WE GET THEIR ATTENTION OTHER T
THAN PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST.....
travisberthelot 8 months ago
An idea is a problem with a proposed solution.

Again Example Idea:

Problem: I have a monster in my closet.
Solutions: 1. Give it milk and cookies and negotiate new residence 2. Use C-4

Your "Idea":

Problem: Government is not representing the people.
Solution: Peaceful protest.

How is protesting a solution? Again I think it is great to protest, but it is not a solution.

My Solutions to your problem statement: 1. Build an army 2. Take over some land and declare independence 3. Leave the country 4. Stop paying taxes 5. Give away guns to "helpful friends".

tsiya 8 months ago
Big rally on July 5th, in St.Augustine, Florida, the nations oldest city.
sallietoo 8 months ago
YOUR KIDDING, RIGHT?? OUR ELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE NOT LISTENING TO US - THEY ARE
SUPPOSE TO BE REPRESENTING US NOT THEMSELVES - HOW ELSE DO WE GET THEIR ATTENTION OTHER
THAN PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST.....
sallietoo 8 months ago
OK I'll play travisbertalot: We have an out of control Congress that has over 80 that are
members of the Democrat Socialist of America but deceived Americans by running on a
democrat ticket - What do we do?

We have a DSA Socialist President that is a Usurper that was born in Kenya NOT Hawaii and has sealed all his records so the American people will not be able to find out the truth - What do we do?

tsiya 8 months ago
We keep pushing, and we keep waking people up.
dlrichter 8 months ago
For maximum (and long term) involvement, see http://pushbackuntil.com. We have to come up with various - and radical - methods in or for we, the people, to take this country back from the professional politicians. We have to use every strategy available to us, but I believe http://pushbackuntil.com describes the only way we will ever be able to take back our country.

Be in D.C. to "Push Back Until!"
travisberthelot 8 months ago
My Solutions to your problem statement: 1. Build an army 2. Take over some land and declare independence 3. Leave the country 4. Stop paying taxes 5. Give away guns to "helpful friends". 6. Declare a constitutional convention in your town and invite some great thinkers.

You might add/remove as needed excluding doing nothing like protesting.
tsiya 8 months ago
We've already got the land, it shows up in red on some maps.
We also have a pretty good chunk of the military.
Why don't we just wall off the large urban areas, to keep the rot from spreading?

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe" .
Thomas Jefferson

"No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders."
Samuel Adams


"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy."
John Derbyshire
rosepetal57 8 months ago
travisberthelot- Although all your "ideas" are interesting, each presents it's own complications, especially for a individual person. The one I've most considered is leaving the country, which seems a bit unfair to me, as I am an AMERICAN, born & raised, and hold dear the ideals associated with that. Instead of just "throwing in the towel" so to speak, I think that similar thinkers need to get together and come up with solutions, including but not limited to protesting in some form. The effectiveness of such has yet to be fully determined, and although I disagree that protesting is such...doing NOTHING isn't an option anymore. I think more and more people are seeing what's really happening and getting fed up. I think the real solution is to change the power of our government, including term limits and restricted power if going against wishes of the citizen majority.
tsiya 8 months ago
We sre watching a coup unfold, but it's not a done deal yet. Resistance is the only hope. JULY IS TEA PARTY TIME! Take a lesson from the Iranian people, winning or losing does not matter, surrender is out of the question.
sallietoo 8 months ago
IMPEACH BO & REPEAL EVERY LEGISLATION SINCE 1/20/09

EVERY ENTITY THAT RECEIVED $1 OF FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS MUST PAY BACK EVERY $1 i.e. BAIL OUTS, STIMULUS BILL, OMNIBUS BILL, $200 MILLION TO GITMO prisoners of war UIGHURS, $108 BILLION TO IMF, 850 MILLION TO PALESTINIAN GROUP HAMAS (designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization and under the law may be receive federal aid)EVERY EAR MARK MUST BE PAID BACK TO THE U.S. TAXPAYERS.

PAY OFF CHINA & SAUDI AND EVERY DEBT INCURRED SINCE 1/20/09

BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET A.S.A.P.

DRILL OUR OWN OIL BOTH ON SHORE AND OFF SHORE TO REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL NOW!!!

RE ELECT NO ONE IN 2010 & 2012 - IMPOSE OUR OWN TERM LIMITS - 2 TERMS AND YOUR OUT!!!

ALL DSA MEMBERS MUST RUN ON THE SOCIALIST PARTY NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY

WHEN THE ABOVE IS ACCOMPLISHED, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL STOP THEIR PROTEST.




travisberthelot 8 months ago
You don't hold your land unless you have your own military and are not paying taxes to others. So no the red states don't count. As if the Bush states have anything on the Obama states. Both blue and red states voted for Obama and Bush. Term limits do nothing when yet more national socialist and fascist are running.

So again: My Solutions to your problem statement: 1. Build an army 2. Take over some land and declare independence 3. Leave the country 4. Stop paying taxes 5. Give away guns to "helpful friends". 6. Declare a constitutional convention in your town and invite some great thinkers.

This does not include pretend stuff like republicans in the Army. This means you go out with a gun and practice with others not in a federal or state military until your state has seceded. I.E. in a real militia. Not pretend.

Only 2 states have any real interest in seceding and they don't have strong militias so it's all a big joke until you start acting.

As far as leaving the country well that could mean starting a new rebel city in your own state. That means not paying state and federal taxes and taking care of yourselves. It's not very practical and the economic situation would be less than desirable if things were done peacefully.
tsiya 8 months ago
The very last thing we want is a constitutional convention, we simply need to see the Constitution respected by government.
Practice? At one time in my younger days I was casting 250 pounds of bullets each year. I've had lots of practice.
travisberthelot 8 months ago
Well that's how it started last time. I'm not saying that a similar constitution would not result.

Except for slaves and gender language I would not change it myself.

While dangerous it is required for independence even if it is same constitution.
tsiya 8 months ago
The greatest travesty ever to take place in this nation was allowing government to use the term "civil rights". All that was needed was to require that the inalienable rights of all Americans be respected. That, however, would not support the illusion that government wanted to create, government as the source, and dispenser, of all rights.
blackmonrikker 8 months ago
I know you didn't write this petition yourself, rosepetal. You don't write this well. You don't organize your thoughts this well.

Where's your source? Who wrote this?
sobi 8 months ago
Protesting on the 4th is an obligation.
tsiya 8 months ago
I'll be there!
LET FREEDOM RING!
sallietoo 8 months ago
GOOD FOR YOU tsiya & sobi you are true Patriotic Americans that love our Constitution
and our Country. More than I can say for BO, his Administration, Pelosi & the DSA Demo
Majority Congress - SHAME ON THEM FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO DESTROY OUR FREE REPUBLIC AND
WEAKEN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY. THEY ARE UNAMERICAN AND UNWORTHY TO HOLD ANY POSITION
IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. NO SOCIALISTS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT - VOTE THEM OUT!!!
rosepetal57 8 months ago
LOL... Sticks and stones Blackdumb-ass... I didn't claim to have written it, so save your ignorant insults. Don't need a source. Check the website...
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