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Old 03-26-2009, 06:48 AM   #48 (permalink)
dksuddeth
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Originally Posted by dc_dux View Post
pan....there is not one proposal in that video to deal with the worst economic downtown this country faced in half a century.

Term limits? Congress paying into SS? English as the official language? Abolish the electoral college?

How is any of that going to help turn the economy around? Or doesnt that matter?
dc, those suggestions/recommendations are not put up there as a cure to fix the economy, they are there to prevent FUTURE occurrences of what we are no experiencing. A major portion of blame for this economic mess lies squarely in the laps of elected people/groups that have been there for YEARS and DECADES. Entrenched power often finds ways to bend, stretch, and then break the lines of ethics and morality for it's own convenience and enrichment, usually at the expense of those that put them there.

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I'm still curious why these tea partiers arent yelling about:

regulatory reform
Extensive regulatory overhaul planned

procurement reform
Obama Announces Procurement Reform Effort

or applauding:
more open government
Attorney General Overturns Strict FOIA Guidelines

or the plan to help responsible home owners facing foreclosure because of losing their jobs
Making Home Affordable
Our job as 'we the people' is to rein in and limit the governments power, not to praise it for doing the job we tell it to like it's our child.

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Originally Posted by Rekna View Post
So was the name tea party chosen because of the Boston tea party? And is this the movements way of saying we need to overthrow the government?
The original boston tea party was not a call to overthrow the government. At the time of that 'party', we were still under english rule. The tea party was a tax protest, just like this one is.

One thing I'd truly enjoy seeing from alot of people entrenched in the left or right is to realize that protestation does not equate wanting to overthrow the government.
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