Tomorrow is not going to be "tax day" for some. For some it is going to be a day for reform.
Are you going to participate in a Tea Party? There is one in Atlanta, even.
What do you think of this movement?
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to Atlanta and show them how we feel.
I agree that this is an important time for our nation and that it may be a bit too soon to be rallying for anti-taxing scenarios I do think it is important to show our disgust with deficit and big government shenanigans.
Please email me at drew@barnesville.com or call the office.
With regards,
Drew
I have to say it was a surprising turnout; about 85 concerned citizens. I thought it was a great beginning to let the government know where we, the people, stand.
April 15, 3-7pm
700 Watson Boulevard (In front of the Warner Robins Civic Center and Municipal Complex)
Live broadcast of the Jeff Scott Show 3-6pm, followed by a panel of speakers including Virginia Galloway from Americans for Prosperity and Senator Cecil Staton
Ya'll come. It's 55 miles. Take 75 South to the Warner Robins - Centervill Exit. Go left down Watson about 7 miles and Civic Center on the right.
With regards,
Drew
Where: Rosa Parks Park, Downtown Macon (Across from City Hall Steps at First & Poplar)
fairtax.org
drew@barnesville.com
Heard Atlanta had a GREAT showing, though.
The Obama administration "has no credible opposition, especially on economic policy, where the Republicans seem particularly clueless," Krugman charged.
The tea parties are funded by typical Republican billionaires and promoted by Fox News.
Just remember there is nothing he can really do until our power hungry representative give the president a line item veto. But we all know that no rep be it republican or democrat will ever vote to do that. So everyone continue to get all of your information from "flippity flop Shaun Hanity" and keep doing nothing.
If we all ignore politics even at the local level then we reap only what we sew. We cannot expect a few thousand people to miraculously wake up the executive branch. We have to begin participation and dialogue at a much smaller leve.
Yesterday in Griffin, 2 representatives and the mayor were in attendance. I was able to speak directly to both representatives and both welcomed me to speak with them further at any time. Granted they are not my representatives I am sure such open door policy would be available to our Lamar Co. reps.
What are we doing that we shouldn't?
What are we not doing that we should?
What are we doing right?
He did say that we aren't participating enough in local politics and "breeding" committed politicians and are instead spending 99% of our time, effort, and energy on the executive branch.
He did feel strongly (as did the mayor) that these sorts of peaceful, public displays were necessary and were important at all levels.
The American people have spoken. Obama YES.
Reppublican NOT!
Ignore party line and stick to the issues!!!!
Gary M.
#11 You are totally wrong. Fox did cover the tea parties, but DID NOT sponsor them. Why do you put FOX down so much,their ratings are so much higher than the other cable news networks, so somebody must be listening. Maybe you just don't hear what you want to hear, like truth.
#12 Sean Hannity gets to you, huh? At least he is not a yes man and will speak his mind.
SOLO - did you know there were some Dems. there who voted for Obama? Your devotion to a man who has done literally nothing in his lifetime amazes me. I do give him credit for his support of ACORN - you remember the group who registered so many people over and over again?
I think every American has the right to voice their opinion without being belittled by the news media and the more Pelosi opens her mouth, I think she is lowering herself in the opinion of a lot of Americans. Why does Obama pick the type of cabinet members that he has? He certainly has not raised the confidence of a lot of Americans with his choices.
So, I say, tea party anyone?
You want less pork, get a line item veto for the president, then and only then can you complain about pork spending. And name a republican who is willing to give a dem president the power for a line item veto, Yeah I didn't think you could come up with one. Oh yeah and don't forget when Clinton was in office we had a balanced budget and less taxes, foreign countries liked us, and life was good. Have fun with that.
It’s interesting that we blame government for all the ill wills that corporate America has inflected upon us. Government is there to set the tone for the employer/employee relationship yet we blame government for the required intervention to set this connection back on the right track. This bailout is the result of cooperate greed which has run a muck to the point that our economy would have gone in a fatal tailspin.
The all mighty US dollar is the monetary system that runs the world and with that comes immense financial leverage. If this were to change the US would have been dealt a fatal blow. The only thing that would cause this would be to continue with the level if deregulation that were are presently experiencing. I am not an economist but this is the way I see it. Prove me wrong and I will bow to your point of view.
First off let me ease your mind. Folks don’t seem to be upset with government; they are. Yes, business is what people use to acquire income. Is there another method?
You said, “We give it the right to determine life and death with our insurance provider. We give it the right to take away all that we worked so hard to acquire even though we committed to it a degree of dedication it never deserved.”
Define “We”? Government is giving everything you speak of away. The people are the ones raising hell about it. You sit back on your hands and imagine all those rich capitalist republicans taking everything. Well it’s the rich capitalist republicans that are screaming at the new socialist democratic movement about giving it all away.
What you say makes no sense.
Thanks for the reply. I wonder how many millions of Americans were doing all the right things when the housing market went through the floor. They give their job all they have. They do without in order to invest in their future. Then one day their home value drops by 35-40 % and their 401K drops by 60%. Their rate of income never climbs at the rate of the consumer price index so they are falling behind in the standard of living. They see their friends drop by the wayside as companies institute cost cutting measures to insure profitability. As a result they are asked to do more for less in order to stay employed. How do we blame this on government?
It is the government that wants to give money to Amtrack.
It is the government that wants to give money for a new federal employee building instead of remodeling existing buildings that are sitting empty.
It is the local government that continues to give builders permits for subdivision after subdivision.
If Lamar county isn't careful we will end up just as bad as Clayton county. The government " zoning dept, commisioners" should mandate that all homes be on a minimum of a 2 acre lot. They should mandate no more new subdivivions until all of the ones in process are 80% sold.
Any new subdivisions should be better mandated.
So you see the government does hold the purse strings that pull corporate, state, and local gov't.
Home values dropped for everyone from the poor to the rich. If you own a home then your value has dropped. It depends on where you live in the United States as to how much value was lost. Around here home values have not decreased anywhere near 35 – 40%. Government forced the lending of money to people for homes they could not afford. Aren’t you aware of the benefits Obama reaped from that?
Anyone who has a 401K, rich or poor, lost; or maybe they didn’t. The price of the stock fell. You still own the same number of shares you were invested in unless you panicked and pulled all your money out. The market will come back. Take advantage of the lower stock prices now by increasing the amount you’re investing. You’ll be buying shares at a reduced rate and when the market does return, you’ll be shocked at the amount of worth it increased.
Let’s use some common sense. Companies must make a profit or they cannot stay in business. Government has passed the largest tax increase in history. This has forced companies to close and jobs go with those closures. Government is trying to convince you that they are greatly increasing the taxes on the very wealthy in order to provide for less wealthy. I’m sure you have heard the term redistribution of wealth. However, those higher taxes are going to be passed down as well and you are going to be in worse condition. High taxes are forcing companies to close or move out of the country. Government controls those taxes.
Health care is one thing at the center of the socialist movement going on now. Socialized medicine is a killer. I guess those that have no health insurance would consider inferior health care over no health care. That makes sense I guess. But, if government would have insisted that companies provided health benefits to their employees rather than taxing them out of business, we would have fewer problems now.
In the socialized end, the person at the bottom will get the worst of the shaft. If anything people should see what’s going on now, and it should encourage them to get educated for the future.
On 401K investments, for many the initial investment also showed a loss and when the boomers start pulling out their money at retirement let just see what happens then.
You’re right let’s use common sense. We bail out the banks because if they go under so do we and the first thing they do instead of passing it down to stimulate the economy they increase the interest on retroactive credit cards debt, and cut off the line of credit for businesses. That is what is causing companies to close the doors not taxes.
The US can learn from other industrialized nations who do have universal health care. You’re right educate yourself on where the US stands compared to other countries in the quality of health care and longevity. It looks like to me it is you who are making no sense.
All seriousness aside, it seems as if most of the tea parties were an attempt at bashing Obama than at actually protesting so-called government fiscal policy. I'm all for people exercising their 1st Amendment rights, but please stop calling it a tea party because there is representation. For the most part, the people that are in office were elected by the American people--excluding the appointees.
If people are really so concerned about fiscal policy, they should have been protesting 4-5 years ago when the govt. borrowed trillions of dollars from China. Now that's some stuff to really be concerned about.
I'm really tired of people claiming that they are against socialist policies when they have benefited from "social programs" such as public schools, libraries, and police officers. Aren't those financed by tax payers???
As for the higher taxes issues, most large corporations have tax shelters set up outside of the US to avoid paying high corporate taxes so I really don't buy that they went out of business because of high taxes. Total B.S. there...
MarkFiore (dot) com
Check out the newly frugal guy clip.
The uprise in "tea parties" actually started with the 9/11 truthers a while ago. Ron Paul and his supporters adopted this way of protest and lately has been hijacked by the Neocons to try and make Obama look bad, whom I might add needs no help in doing so.
Meanwhile, the banksters continue to rape the country, unhibited and without punishment. We need to convince or elect officials who will arrest, convict and inprison these people who have screwed us for so long...the list, in my opinion, includes, the Bush family, the Clintons, the Kennedys and just about everyone in Congress. It's time to start over. If any one of us would have behaved as these folks have behaved, we'd be sitting in some federal prison.
The American people have been victims of fraud, plain and simple. With a gazillion lawyers walking around, you'd think a chosen few would have the guts to confront these folks...oops..my mistake, they are lawyers.
Bush never even showed the wars he started, including the one in the WRONG country, in his budget. He hid most of the real cost.
You all sat by and for the last 30 or 40 years let jobs exit the country and let financial institutions be deregulated, now you are crying little clucking Chicken Littles.
I don't know what you mean when you say "you" people. I'm probably the most color-blind person that you would meet. I'm not hung up on race, however I do recognize and I WILL call out blatant racism when I see it.
The fact that President that I proudly voted for is multi-racial is just a happenstance--definitely not the reason that I voted for him.
I never mentioned anything racial about these "tea-parties". Maybe you're the one that's lacking in intelligence here???
If anything I believe that this more of a partisan attempt to undermine the current administration.
ETA: Maybe you need a to brew yourself a cup of tea and calm down...lol
It seems as if the Secretary of State is looking into the issue, and deciding how things should be handled.
It's an unfortunate incident, but I feel as a journalist that happens to have dual citizenship (Iran/US) she was well aware of the risks she was taking.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103250564
Sorry to hear that. Crosswords can help you improve.
As for the last leader, it will be very interesting to see how history paints him. I'll put my money on history painting him pertty good. At least the United States was never attacked again with him in office. Would you care to guess how long it will be before America is on the receiving end of another attack? Freedom isn't free.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hidden-cost-of-wars-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-is-twice-what-bush-claims-400231.html
You also don't know squat about the cause of the housing crash. It was both Republican and Democrats at work causing the housing mess. Phil Gramm, the big Republican ex-senator from Texas, pushed for some legislation that set up up for this disaster as have Republicans and Democrats alike. Your hate for Obama is misplaced unless you include the Bushes and Clinton and Reagan in the mix, because all had more of hand in this than Obama ever did.
It is tough to swallow, but this all started with deregulation and letting critical businesses have free reign....and that is largely a Republican agenda. Both parties are equally at fault because they all poison our minds with hate for others just so they can get re-elected.
You are behaving like a squawking mindless parrot repeating what the people who are ruining our country would like us to believe. How's that natural gas deregulation working in Georgia? How did that electrical deregulation work in California?
Why should complete deregulation of financial institutions, a thing that actually started way back with Reagan, be any different?
100 times more people per capita were interested in David's beer party with live sex acts than the so-called "tea party".
Let's rewind two weeks. Mr. President would hardly exchange a cheek kiss with a French supporter when greeting the public in France. Complete European feux pas considering the county is not our enemy, per se. They are largely in support of Obama and this country.
Then Mr. President goes on to shake hands, smiles, and kind words with Chavez; one of the most anti-American leaders in the entire world? Let's get real. He is hardly a pretty, young French woman. He is a brutal dictator and human rights violator. He is a major oppressor of Venezuela, on the whole.
That act alone sent a huge signal to all of Latin America about how our country now views dictators. Honestly, what's next? Dining with Iran? Or what about a garden stroll with North Korea or even cocktails and cigars with the Castro brothers?
If you look at the video Chavez sought Obama out for a greeting. Not the other way around. It’s interesting that you should bring up Iran. How many years did the US back the Shaw while his people were in squalor?
If you believe the isolation tactic has worked for Iran, Cuba, and North Korea the results don’t support it. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Drew……..you’re smarter than this…….I expected more from you. You need a different mentor.
Louie
Obama should have had some "Freedom Fries?" Freedom fries were nothing more than a euphemism for French fries used by conservatives in the U.S. as a result of anti-French sentiment in the United States. Why would such a food make Obama more diplomatic in his dealing with the French?
And having lived in Paris I can attest to the fact that people there do regularly bathe. It is true that French people are not as obsessed as Americans about daily showers and the scent of soap. But almost all practice perfectly acceptable hygeine, and you are just as likely to encounter a smelly person here in Barnesville as you are in even the French countryside. That was just a bad argument. Shame on you for grasping at straws.
It is hard to tell, in my opinion, whether or not Chavez sought out Obama or vice versa. I will say that at one point it looked like Obama was anxious to walk away but was held back by Chavez. Whatever the case, Obama did put himself in the situation at the meeting and if you continue to watch the meeting between the two men it is Obama who is doing the talking. If he was uncomfortable, I think he would have continued to walk away.
And concerning Iran, I think you are referring to the Shah and not the Shaw. There has been speculation concerning our "on again - off again" relationship with Iran including Human Rights issues, nuclear warfare issues, and even speculation about a scenario similar to the Gulf of Tonkin. I do remember reading once that the relationship between the Shah and Nixon began back in '52 or '53 so there is a long history.
I do think the entire US Policy of Isolation has worked although I do think that certain components have been successful. The general embargo (except for food and medicine allowances) have brought about times of reckoning. I do also think that isolation has led to increasing difficulty for the people groups of those countries while keeping US citizens in the dark about our global colleagues. What I meant was that Obama has to be more careful and more calculated about this meetings. He is under a great deal of scrutiny and needs to be firm with his decision regarding both socialist and communist countries lest the American people begin to think we are headed in that same direction under his tutelage.