Just Keeping Track For Myself

"When white would embrace what is right..." is what was prayed for at the inauguration of our new president, Mr. Obamanation. Well, they're getting what they prayed for.
This white girl is embracing what is right.
Right wing, baby!!!

Friday, May 1, 2009

Tea Party

I attended The Woodlands Tea Party on April 15. I went because I oppose the governments ridiculous greedy hand trying to take over every part of anything that it can. I oppose BO's outrageous "Recovery Act" that he passed. I went because I think taxing the people nearly half of what they make is absurd. I went because I support the constitution and our rights as American citizens to not be overly burdened by a selfish, tax-crazy government. Our Founding
Fathers had the original tea party and blew off people's heads because someone taxed their breakfast beverage (up to 3%) too much. Right now I pay 8.25% sales tax on almost everything I buy, on top of my other taxes!

So what was very upsetting about the Tax Day Tea Parties? A couple days before when BO was asked about what he thought about the Tea Parties, he acted like he hadn't heard anything about them. That is disturbing because the very people he is ignoring are the very people he is supposed to be representing. It's becoming more and more clear that his agenda is what he is after-not the people's.

After the Tea Parties BO said, "Those of you who are watching certain news channels, on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we're gonna stabilize Social Security. Let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act, because that's just a fraction of the overall problem that we've got.* We are going to have to tighten our belts, but we're going to have to do it in an intelligent way, and we gotta make sure that the people who are helped are working American families and we're not suddenly saying that the -- the way to do this is to eliminate programs that help ordinary people and give more tax cuts to the wealthy. We tried that formula for eight years. It did not work, and I don't intend to go back to it."

*Did he just admit that the Recovery Act is a problem? The Tea Parties weren't about Social Security, and no one was pretending they were about the Recovery Act, that IS what they were about!

So why is he ignoring us and what can/should we do? He is ignoring us because he has his own agenda to worry about. And what should we do about it? Get involved! Speak to neighbors, get your voice heard. Find out who is running for offices, contact them before the elections and let them know what you want done. Pay closer attention to who we vote in. We should write our senators and other representatives. Do something, do anything that is proactive. We can no longer afford to be apathetic towards what is happening, it is not going to affect just us but our children. Let's leave America a little better than we found it.

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