Thanks to the tea party movement all across the USA for having the negotiating skills and the guts to tell politicians that this nation is heading rapidly toward bankruptcy. Its conservative members in the U.S. House of Representatives have been adamant at pushing through the debt ceiling measure and a no tax increase that meets their ideological requirements. Spending must be brought under control now.
Whatever you may think of the tea party (patriotic Americans consisting of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, college graduates and more), you have to admit that they represents a broad cross-section of freedom-loving Americans. And the movement continues to grow by leaps and bounds in spite of all of the criticism by the liberal mob.
For years, politicians have deliberately ignored that the government's taking of most of the $2.6 trillion Social Security Surplus Trust Fund is outright "stealing." Financially, for the quality of being solvent, let's hope all of Congress gets the tea party message based on unrest over heavy out-of-control government spending, mismanagement of the people's money and excessive, intrusive regulation.
Our country doesn't belong to Washington and certainly not to the president. It belongs to "we the people," and we are an established nation under God. As our currency proclaims, our trust is in God - not "government."
Jack and Nineva Salley, Mesa
RationalHuman posted at 6:38 am on Fri, Aug 26, 2011.
"As our currency proclaims, our trust is in God - not "government."
I'm all for not trusting government - our government is run by people who believe in superstitious nonsense.
And speaking of superstitious nonsense, why IS it on our money? And why do the auhor(s) keep pretending their imaginary friend is real?
A true "freedom loving" American would not be bigotted and discriminatory against minorities - thus the majority of Tea Party members have automatically disqualified themselves.
"we are an established nation under God"
Please keep your belief in a Bronze Age sky fairy to yourself - it has no place here in the real world.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 8:33 am on Fri, Aug 26, 2011.
Wow...someone sounds real cranky about not seeing Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the B. Hussein Obama's, et al at the Washington Mall this week-end (don't forget the dysfunctional MLK Family who makes the Michael Jackson Family look like Ozzie and Harriet).
The Tea Party doesn't "hate" anybody. They just don't like working their tails off to support people who don't want to assimilate, don't want to learn English, don't want to get a job, don't want to stop having children that they can't afford and don't want to help themselves year after year, generation after generation.
Tea Party people feel that Government Assistance is supposed to be a "Helping Hand" not a "Hand Out".
Government Assistance was to be a temporary solution....not a "Way of Life".
JSBeals posted at 8:46 am on Fri, Aug 26, 2011.
Mr/Ms Salley, Sorry the Tea Party doesn't get to take the credit. Democrats and some Republicans were raising their voices under the Bush administration when spending on a war, a new Homeland Security Dept, tax cuts for the rich, unregulated banks, ensuring an "ownership society" etc. etc. were digging us into a deep dark hole . Remember? We had a major change in Congress then because of it. Why did you wait so long to raise your concerns? Tell the whole story and tell us why you waited until Obama was in office to speak up.
The credit and the mess fall at the feet of all Americans -- stop pointing fingers at others -- we all did this. Quit hijacking patriotism as though it is something the Tea Party invented, as we all are patriotic freedom loving Americans, not just a select few. You are looking silly on your high horse.
Dale Whiting posted at 12:42 pm on Fri, Aug 26, 2011.
Just who is the Tea Party? A recent study conducted by a Harvard professor reveals that 95% of Tea Party members five years ago identified themselves as conservative Republicans. Most of the rest were independents. The largest segments were 1) evangelicals who believe that government needs to follow God, the one in Whom we Trust and 2) those who are suspecious of minorities. You just can't trust a minority. They are not like us!
I must admit that it is very difficult to define conservatism. Russell Kirk struggled for years trying to do so. Eventually he hit upon six principles, principles which inspired the likes of Barry Goldwater and the kudos of William F. Buckley, Jr. But I am still struggling to make any real sense out of the several Tea Party sets of principles, themes or issues, whatever they are. Free markets, constitutionally limited government, these thems make sense. But who doesn't believe in these? Seems to me that it's a "them vs. us" theme and you just can't trust "them." They are not like us!
Accuracy posted at 3:32 pm on Fri, Aug 26, 2011.
Name-calling (Neo-Con) Dale Whiting is at it again. This time again as always, “Name- Dropping” names like likes of Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley, Jr.
As pointed out in the letter in today’s Eat Valley Tribune titled “Holding politicians accountable”; Several dozen members in the new House and Senate were elected with strong Tea Party support, and Tea Party activists created the biggest conservative wave to hit Washington since the 1930s.
Dale Whiting posted at 10:37 am on Sat, Aug 27, 2011.
Accuracy,
You were just added to the list of Tea Party huggers who ought to step to the plate and explain what the Tea Party stands for. Don't be modest. Be specific and precise. Mark my words. If and when you do, you will fall short of making any reasonable explanation. The Tea Party banner is all sound and furry, simpleton logic, and nearly totally worthless hot air. Where he living today, Bill Buckley would be tearing the Koch Brothers and [D . . .] Armie appart.
Accuracy posted at 11:49 am on Sat, Aug 27, 2011.
As I stated before; “Name-Dropper” Dale Whiting is at it again. This time with his wonted twisted thinking blame game.
sockratties posted at 8:20 am on Sun, Aug 28, 2011.
I was okay with the Salley’s letter until the last paragraph. I really don’t want their god in my government. I have a secular government and I want it to stay that way. Secular is not anti-religious, it is neutral. That way it works for anyone including the Salleys, RationalHuman, and Dale.
Somehow leon managed to get his usual hate into the mix. Notice he was the only one to use the term as he spewed his vitriolic bile. leon, the next thing you’ll be doing is trying to outlaw Monarch butterflies because they migrate from Mexico. I don’t think most of the Tea Party minions, even as gullible as they are, will buy into your hate on demand policies. Nothing in the Salley letter even alluded to your problem.
RH—there are always be some type of mythology intertwined with culture regardless of if it is called religion, faith or spiritual. If you could somehow erase all beliefs in something supernatural today, by tomorrow new ones would be forming. Not everyone can believe in Schrödinger’s Cat.
It has been said that repeating the same activity the same way in the same environment yet expecting different results may be insanity. Arguing against popular mythology, no matter how logical your argument, may be as futile.
Dale Whiting posted at 3:27 pm on Sun, Aug 28, 2011.
To sum things up, I issued a challenge in a column length piece to let the tea partiers on this site explain themselves, to but flesh on the words we hear repeated. Only one attempted to rise to that occasion. The effort was not especially successful. More sound and furie, but no substance. They quit!
So I must conclude, based on this limited example that the Tea Partiers cannot explain themselves by giving substantative examples of what they would do. Theirs is a party of platitudes without substance.
NothingButTheTruth posted at 7:06 pm on Sun, Aug 28, 2011.
So Dale must assume that because he's confused and no one can fix him the Tea Party must be trite and have no substance. So quit trying to understand Dale. We don't need you to understand. In fact, I'm sure it's in our best interest that pseudo conservatives such as yourself never understand us. Kudos to The Tea Party. They may be this countries only hope of survival.