There were well over a thousand people at the Justice center, Heck there may have been 2,000. It was all about the people. No politicians spoke and except for a couple of exceptions, it was non-partisan. I loved hearing honesty and people telling it like they see it.
The one thing that I wish people understood, and I don't think they do, is that We the People are the Government -- A Government Of, By, and For the People. Folks that means that we are the Government. And along with this comes responsibility. People have to become more involved in Civics. It is that lack of involvement that has led us to where we are today.
The Bureaucracy is the problem, but the people have let this happen. The Bureaucracy is supposed to be made up of people that represent the interests of the American Public. Now all they represent is the system and its structure. Many, in the Bureaucracy, believe that the Government is supposed to be Of, By, and For the Bureaucracy. That they are a class above the rest of us. Look at the pay and benefits. During these trying times is that representative of what the private sector is experiencing?
Not all of our public servants are bad. Some of the individuals in the Bureaucracy are excellent Public Servants. We have all seen the good and the bad. It reminds me of the parable of the Wheat and the Tares (Matthew 13:24–30). It is time to root out the good from the bad. Those who truly want to serve the public should rise and those who want to serve themselves at our expense should fall.
What we are seeing is tyranny. A few bad apples are making all of the decisions that they don't think the rest of us are intelligent enough to understand and they don't want our input. They aren't living by the same rules that we have to abide by. They aren't held to the standards of accountability that the rest of us are. Their decisions are arbitrary, illogical, and nonsensical. It is time that we reign the bad Bureaucracy in. It is time to get back to basics with a smaller, wiser, more efficient Government -- Of, By, and For the People.
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Against my better judgment, I submit my thoughts on tea parties.
This is problematic to me for several reasons:
1. Where were the protests when Bush was hiking up the deficit for Iraq and Medicaid Prescriptions Drugs (healthcare = socialism to most Republicans right?)? Bush is a member of one the most elite, wealthiest families in this country's history, yet he's never been called "elitist". He was pushing through tax cuts for his rich buddies and we all partied and didn't care that the surplus was gone in a puff of ink.
2. I've yet to see a convincing argument that cutting taxes, which also 'costs' the federal government money will improve the economy. The whole trickle down economics thing is what got us in this mess..."let's give these rich, smart bankers more money to leverage and they'll give us all jobs with their fat bonuses." Didn't happen then, won't happen in the future. The rich take their factories overseas, keep their money and keep us busy mutilating our history (The Boston Tea was protest of being taxed without representation...the last time I checked, we have representation...if you can call it that.) Moreover, taxes haven't gone up, especially in Hickory, where we have luxuriously low tax rates compared to similar cities in other parts of the country (or so I'm told).
3. I cannot help but feel this movement has racist undertones (I'm not accusing anyone on this blog of anything like that, but in general), which may explain why Bush was spared such criticism. I may disagree with Obama and the Democrats on their approaches and the Republicans of the past (now, conveniently, they're all playing the populist "outraged" line), but I don't see the evil man he must be masking to make so many people revile him. These responses to the economy (bailout (Bush's idea), stimulus, etc.) seem logical. You may disagree, but this is an economics argument not really even a political one (I know that statement is naive at best and probably stupid); however, when our collective conversation is so irrational as to accuse the means of fixing an ailment as the source of the disease, I fear we may need such naive distinctions.
For better or worse, I've answered.
Ant, that is what this forum is for and I am glad that you have expressed you feelings that you are truly entitled to. That is what our founding fathers espoused. I am glad you participate.
My feelings on your statements:
1) Plenty of people were upset about the spending under the Bush administration. Go Google the things you are stating here and see how many conservatives are and were totally against Free Drugs. Many of us have also thought that Iraq needs to pay to upgrade their infrastructure with their oil profits, but the loons would say that would prove that we went to war for oil.
I was and have always been against running deficits for social interests, unless it is an investment towards future rewards.
If you will look it up, you will find that most of the mega-rich are liberal Democrats. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, George Soros, Warren Buffett, Steven Spielberg, the Kennedy's, Most Wall Street CEO's...I think you have bought way into the class warfare game.
2.Spending is what has gotten us into this mess. US debt was 33.3% of GDP in 1980. The latest number was estimated at 74.6% as of 2008. If we cut spending, then we could get the budget under control, but we have done the exact opposite. We are on the hook for $14 trillion because of the bailouts. Obama's next budget is $3.6 trillion. Last year it was $1.2 trillion. People are out of work. They aren't buying goods. Spending is down. Where are the tax revenues going to come from?
California, New York, Wisconsin are close to bankruptcy. Our own state is $2 billion in deficit this year. You see how business is doing. Where are these taxes supposed to come from?
Spending is the problem. Inefficient, corrupt, and incompetent spending is even worse. We don't want our local city government getting into the game and adding to the failure that we are already seeing at others levels.
3) Racism comes from those that keep pushing the racist angles. Did you see what happened at UNC-CH where former Colorado Congressman Takredo wasn't allowed to speak, because a student group stormed the forum, threw a rock through the window, and chanted slogans after they had broken up the forum. Don't both sides deserve free speech?
This was about admission of illegal immigrants. They said people against admission of illegal immigrants were racist. Well I would agree that people are Xenophobic (not racist) if they were stating that any person of Hispanic descent should be denied admission, but these people are here illegally. It has nothing to do with racism. If they are from Europe without proper papers, then they should be denied admission.
(Hound Opinion) These rallies were protesting a government Of, By, and For the Bureaucracy; when it is supposed to be for the people.
Protesting Big bellied, slothful, pepto-bismal government. A bureaucracy that reminds us of the people on Oprah that are lifted out of their apartments on forklifts and buried in piano cases. That is how most of us view the government in its current form.
Hi Tom. It's the bailouts that really irritate me. Nobody bailed out all the companies all around us that have been sinkng for years and years... Why should the giants be given special treatment? Inside deals run Washington, I guess. They really don't care about us. They just want to get richer. Down with the parties!
Dude, you make no sense. Your thinking is sloppy and you say nothing of substance. Why don't you get it - your small-time family-values southern conservatism has been a scam. "Conservatism" has been nothing but give-aways to the ultra-rich through de-regulation and tax cuts. The problem isn't that government doesn't work - it's that the government has been giving to the rich and the rich have been screwing the regular guy. The banks own our country. Why aren't you tea-bagging against the upper 1% that own the vast majority of wealth in this country? Now we've got a progressive agenda that actually may work for regular folks and you want to whine about government spending in a no-demand economy teetering on the edge of major depression? Paltry tax increases on the upper 2% of incomes and you cry tyranny? No problem with illegal wiretapping, torture, and pointless, bloody, economically devastating wars? Tyranny now that we have a president who understands the Bill of Rights? Dude, you are badly informed.
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