Tax Day Tea Party (fit in, house, unemployed)

[Calico696]

Anyone planning to attend?

Tax Day Tea Party » New Jersey

[nicolem]

I will be attending however up here in New Hampshire. I suppose I should post it on the NH Forum and spread the word.

[Tracysherm]

I may attend one of the several in Philly. For more places & dates, check out the912project.com

There's a running list of all the scehduled tea parties. Let's hear it for Thomas Paine!

[tahiti]

some of us have to work, you know, to make money so we can save for the apocalypse. silly some weren't schedule after work hours.

OMG - i just saw the sponsors. FORGET THAT.

[JG183]

Originally Posted by tahiti

some of us have to work, you know, to make money so we can save for the apocalypse. silly some weren't schedule after work hours.

OMG - i just saw the sponsors. FORGET THAT.

I'm happy to see someone else say this.

if I want to hang out with ULAM's (unemployed liberal arts majors) I'll head to the nearest Barnes & Nobles

[Tracysherm]

The tea parties are not for 'unemployed liberal arts majors.' They are for anyone, in any party, who is ticked off at how Congress is spending and overspending our tax dollars and the tax dollars of our children and grandshildren, on bailouts, earmarks, and new expensive programs that most of us don't want.

If you are working, it may be a good reason to take the day or part of the day off to speak out and remind Congress that they are supposed to be working for us, representing us. If you can't take the day off, it's completely understood. But consider sending letters or e-mails to yor representatives if you don't like how the Senate & House have been passing expensive bills withour even reading them.

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by TracySam

The tea parties are not for 'unemployed liberal arts majors.' They are for anyone, in any party, who is ticked off at how Congress is spending and overspending our tax dollars and the tax dollars of our children and grandshildren, on bailouts, earmarks, and new expensive programs that most of us don't want.
If you are working, it may be a good reason to take the day or part of the day off to speak out and remind Congress that they are supposed to be working for us, representing us. If you can't take the day off, it's completely understood. But consider sending letters or e-mails to yor representatives if you don't like how the Senate & House have been passing expensive bills withour even reading them.

I agree. I am fortunate that the one in NH is at 5:30, that way my husband and I can go after work. Everyone that I know who is going is a working professional.

[oleinnout]

Originally Posted by JG183

I'm happy to see someone else say this.

if I want to hang out with ULAM's (unemployed liberal arts majors) I'll head to the nearest Barnes & Nobles

I have a liberal arts degree, and a job. Nevertheless, this mentality that people who take an interest in a cause are likely to be "ULAMS" is part of the problem. Thank goodness that we do have people who are willing to give their time and energy to question the government from time to time regardless of whatever positions they're taking.

[JG183]

you can demonstrate all you want, but as tahiti noted, the thrust of the movement has dubious backing...

citizens would be better served if the demonstrations focused on efforts to better managed existing taxes. all this happened at the end of 8 straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat (to no avail), 8 years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to search every purse, bag, crotch, and briefcase for juice boxes and explosive tubes of toothpaste.

yet in the end, our government had no mechanism for searching the balance sheets of companies that held life-or-death power over our society.


we need a new Pujo Commission, which investigated the Panic of 1907.

[Tracysherm]

I dispute that the "movement" has dubious backing. There is no one group or type of group backing this.

There have been hundreds of these tea parties popping up in lots of places for the past few weeks. There is no one concerted movement; it's not being organized by some big lobby group.

This is true grassroots action on the part of individual citizens. Funny how "grassroots movement" has come to be interpreted as something organized by a group with an agenda. These are really unrelated, unconnected people from all different backgrounds and parties and affiliations, spontaneaously (or with very little planning) joining together to demonstrate how we want our country back.

The liberal media and bloggers want to paint it as a right-wing conspiracy or an anti-Obama thing. But I would think we all want our country back. We all want our elected representatives to listen to and respond to us. We resent huge bills getting passed so quickly with so much stuff embedded in them that we have no idea what's there, and neither do our representatives, who did not read what they voted on, except to check that their own earmark was there. Most of us want the spending to stop. We don't want our generation, as well as the following generations to pay for today's excesses. Yes, we want better management of the money we contribute through existing taxes. But finding new things to spend money on doesn't fit into that sentiment.