Every so often, somebody wakes up and walks out of the crowd. Every so often, somebody stops and says : " Hey, this is WRONG!".
Every so often, somebody stands up and says " Oh, NO YOU DON'T..NOT in MY NAME!"
Every so often, 'We The People" speak up and call an end to "Business as Usual".
NOT so often, does an organization receive such open distasteful comments from a sitting President, as did the Tea Party, when the current President "slipped" and used the regrettable and vulgar term " Tea Bagger", when referring to the Party of the American People. I was at first shocked, then disappointed. Very quickly, I realized that the "source" of the rude reference was a little man standing behind a very large job title. Considering the source, I realized just how serious he and his party take us as a threat. I say that we're not a "threat", but rather, we are "reality".
I'd say that the powers that have been operating Carte Blanche in Washington for hundreds of years have finally been given the wake-up, shot-across-the-bow that IS the Tea Party.
In my opinion, this country has been led astray. We've been taken so far off course that we are in the most severe threat of failure since the greatest test of the union, the Civil War.
What is so very apparent is that the system as we know it has failed us. The system that has allowed the future of ourselves, our children and their children, to be sold into financial servitude screams of the need to be corrected. The political cartel that is in power currently, that which is attempting to change America according to their ideals, are attempting to initiate their brand of change from "..the bottom-up and from the outside-in".. Change, in their view, starts with a redistribution of wealth. The easiest way to take somebody's money is to make that paper currency be worthless. Scared and desperate people are much easier to manipulate than wise, aware and enlightened populace. Your money is being manipulated downward. Deliberately. It's easier to "redistribute" that way.
Make no mistake: I'm not scared. I'm not afraid. What I am, is "Mad as Hell".
One party gave us a system whereby, under threat of Janet Reno, anybody with a pulse was guaranteed a home loan. Regardless.
Add to this a cadre of corporations that took full-fledged advantage of this "Federal Guarantee" and committed what will be eventually revealed to have been the greatest, largest and most devastating crime in the history of the world. And they are getting away with it. Trillions of dollars worth...( I never thought I'd be speaking of this amount of money, I never thought that amount even existed, and in fact, it does NOT physically exist!)
Now, the Democrats are crying that they "inherited" the current mess from a Republican Administration. They are admittedly partly correct. They did "inherit"..but they have their own party to thank, if they wish to be transparent. The mess was made larger by unbridled greed and manipulation, and the mess was amplified even more,by the wholesale bailing out of --with little or no strings attached of the very institutions that took part in the crime! The chaos that ensued when the cards came tumbling down was felt around the world.
The reality to me, is that BOTH sides of the political aisle have each done their part to bring this country to it's knees, and to have for ever changed the future of this nation.
The reality to me, is that BOTH sides are guilty and need to be held accountable for their actions. Taking power away from both sides is the logical choice..to hold BOTH sides accountable for this huge problem is easy. Making them change is the hardest part of all. I'm not sure that we can count on them to do so. The Left is too busy trying to change this country, and the far Right is too busy trying to sell it.
I'm furious at what has happened to my Country. I am furious that the Red Dragon will arise profit from our ashes, having never fired a shot. The fact that China is building up to be the next super power is inescapable. They have done so by letting us shoot ourselves. We have fanned their flames with Treasury Notes, sold on the open market, to fuel and feed the system that is failing us.
America is at the greatest cross roads since the first Civil War.
We can no longer rely upon the decisions made by the Left or by the Right, to safely guide this great nation through the world today.
America is calling for a fundamental wake-up.
America is calling for a return to the very principals that created this nation.
It's time to take BOTH sides of the political aisle to the woodshed. Let's put them BOTH on notice; " If you do not stop business as usual, and if you don't change your financially irresponsible ways, then we will replace you with men and women of better character than you, with greater sense of God and Country than you, and who posses respect for the future of this Great Nation".
Republicans and Democrats: Consider Yourselves On Notice.
You've FAILED this country and we're Mad As Hell...in fact, "You're FIRED!".
I am born on the 4th of July. I am a proud American. I have served in her Armed Forces. I am a father, husband and small business owner. I am not inclined to lay down and be stepped on. Not any longer.
We need to vote as if our future counts on it.
Because it really does.
God Bless the Tea Party.
Geoff McPherson, Ashland, OR.
Comments
Indeed, a LOT OF WEEDS have choked the path, that trail which was once walked proudly, and often.
We have become too divided by a too-organized Left. Well, "if that's the way you want to play"..fine.
You can only kick the sleeping rattlesnake once. We've been tread on, and the backlash will surprise the Left. Restore American ideals, the concepts embedded within that Great Document, the Constitution!
We've been pecked-at by parasites for well long enough.
They've hijacked our country and are on the verge of creating a new order. NOT SO FAST.
2012 is OUR year.
We send the liberal left packing.
We being to right the wrongs of the Obama Adminstration.
WE will right the history books, not the LEFT.
We will save the Union.
WE will become the next "Greatest Generation"
Our parents faced an enemy that was easily defined.
We face an enemy that surrounds us, that has taken over while we rested..we should be ashamed at
how we let them grow, like a cancerous tumor, until they have all but choked the life out of Liberty.
I call upon the Patriots of this Nation to stand UP and SPEAK OUT : " America, we STILL BELIEVE in you"..and " We will root out EVIL from the Halls of Government and we will RESTORE individual freedoms, the right to choose, and we will amputate the tentacles of the MONSTER that Federal Government has grown into.
America: join me.
In some ways, my friends..WE will become the next "Greatest Generation" --and by absolutely NO MEANS do I wish to discount or do anything to dishonor the Great Sacrifice made by my parents' generation, but who better to carry on their work, than us? The Baby Boomers? WE OWE IT TO THEM..
We OWE this country, our hard work and dedication that it will take to straighten this mess out. If there are lessons to be learned, let them look something like this:
1) BALANCED BUDGET. Period. No excuses.
2) IF CONGRESS FAILS TO BALANCE A BUDGET.. NO RECESS, NO VACATION, NO PAY and NO SPECIAL INSURANCE. PERIOD. We, in the private world call this " Performance-based compensation".
3) RESPONSIBILITY: IF you propose a law that fails, worsens the situation or causes more problems than it solves...YOU'RE FIRED! NO MORE SENATE FOR YOU. You've proven you suck at it.
4) An I.Q. minimum standard for PRESIDENTS.
5) NO MEDDLING IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY; you gave GM money when other companies failed. Did you give FORD money? WHAT do you think FORD feels now that it's major competitor is it's REGULATOR, too? Is that fair?
6) Entitlement Reform; AS LONG AS THERE ARE HUNGRY PEOPLE HERE, then NO FOREIGN AID.
7) FOREIGN AID REFORM: AS LONG AS GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BORROW MONEY TO GIVE AWAY TO PEOPLE THAT HATE US, THEN THERE WILL BE NO FOREIGN AID. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.
8) PRIVATIZE: Government is too big to do anything anymore. Let government be farmed-out to AMERICAN companies..and NOT to companies that export jobs or profits. Industry can out-perform, on every level, EVERYTHING that government does...and do so at a cut rate and full of profit.
9) LIMIT GOVERNMENT
10) NO MORE WORLD COP;
11) NATO and UN: " You've freeloaded off of the American Tax Payer for far too long. You are hereby on notice: IT IS TIME TO PAY YOUR OWN BILL. You have bitten the hand that has fed you, protected you, defended and died for you. You have insulted us for the last time. As with any spoiled child, your time of reckoning has arrived. Good luck.
12) HEY CHINA: You either open your currency to be revalued according to world market fluctuations, or we stop paying on the debt we owe you, what we used to buy all that cheap crap to begin with.
13) HEY MEXICO: Hare DARE you come to our congress and DEMAND anything. How DARE your illegal citizens march in MY COUNTRY demanding free citizenship. YOU BROKE THE LAW. SIMPLE. DEPORT YOU NOW. Before you come to my country, you stick your feet to the ground, man-up and FIGHT for your home land..don't bring your welfare babies to my country and then suck us dry. We can't afford it anymore. Careful, the voter is hot!
14) EPD/DEQ: BACK OFF... stop crippling America's Recovery by choking the life out of them with these new AIR CONTAMINATE DISCHARGE PERMITS!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? You people in Government with your STEADY paychecks are out of touch with REALITY!!
AND FINALLY:
15) HEY OBAMA! Take your OBAMA KARE and swallow it whole. Take it back. You're the biggest threat to democracy and to this republic that has every existed. You are the absolutely worst person for the job that you so obviously hate to begin with. Stop taking a vacation every four weeks, too. You wanted this job, now STICK WITH IT!! SIGN THE BILL TO REDUCE SPENDING...the debt is MOUNTING with each and every second!! Yet, you play the fiddle while America burns. Shame on you.