Tea Parties

[landhoney]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Gotcha.

The thing about being fiscally conservative is that its simply the smart thing to do. Oh, the bums getting handouts may disagree, but the people paying for this mess certainly have better things to spend their money on than bailing out the lazy, the stupid, and the reckless.

I know I do ... and I'm pretty sure you do too.

Preach it brother!

My brother in law went last night, and I was going to go as well, but volleyball was calling my name. Played well, the wife gave me 'the look' and motioned for me to slow down my serve when a woman's nose was nearly/probably bloodied. Woops

Anyway, he said it was a great event and was pleased to see so many turun out (West Palm Beach, FL).
Today he IM'd a couple links,
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/1...f-tea-parties/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQbNaXJ8Pw
What liberal media bias? Someone did some serious digging to find the footage in the second clip.

Originally Posted by landhoney

Preach it brother!

My brother in law went last night, and I was going to go as well, but volleyball was calling my name. Played well, the wife gave me 'the look' and motioned for me to slow down my serve when a woman's nose was nearly/probably bloodied. Woops

Anyway, he said it was a great event and was pleased to see so many turun out (West Palm Beach, FL).
Today he IM'd a couple links,
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/1...f-tea-parties/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQbNaXJ8Pw
What liberal media bias? Someone did some serious digging to find the footage in the second clip.

Please don't take this the wrong way because I am not busting your balls or calling you out, but until the problem becomes more important than playing volleyball, it will not change.

We are all guilty of, someone else will be there or take care of it from time to time, and the machine chugs along out of control until its epidemic and hard to reverse. If people would only have to write a check on the 1st of each month for all the tax they will pay for the whole month, the tax and spend era would come to a halt.

Chas

[BigAl_SC]

Originally Posted by ChasDen

If people would only have to write a check on the 1st of each month for all the tax they will pay for the whole month, the tax and spend era would come to a halt.

Chas

How right that is... I even had a lady (30ish) that at the tea party on Wednesday told me she was 'not paying taxes but got a refund' I politely asked if she would give me an income range she was in and she said single and making in the 80's. I explained that she did pay taxes and a heck of a lot of them. She just deposited her money in an non-interest bearing account the gave her a small portion of her own money back on April 15th. I told her to look at her return to find the true amount she paid in. I hope she does because my rough guess would be 12 to 15k.

[357]

Originally Posted by BigAl_SC

How right that is... I even had a lady (30ish) that at the tea party on Wednesday told me she was 'not paying taxes but got a refund' I politely asked if she would give me an income range she was in and she said single and making in the 80's. I explained that she did pay taxes and a heck of a lot of them. She just deposited her money in an non-interest bearing account the gave her a small portion of her own money back on April 15th. I told her to look at her return to find the true amount she paid in. I hope she does because my rough guess would be 12 to 15k.

This is one of the biggest problems we have to overcome in order to avoid turning into the Soviet Union; ignorance. So many people have no clue what our constitution says, what rights they have, that we live in a republic not a democracy, how our socialist progressive tax works, or how quickly socialism can kill a thriving county's spirit.

Entitlement is out of control too. People think it's the government's job to provide housing, transportation, college education, healthcare, garaunteed employment, and money during retirement. I'm sorry but that's not what made our country great. Opportunity and Freedom is what made our country great. People have been dying to get here for over 200 years because of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of their own labor; not so they could become dependent and let the government provide for them. If people wanted that they could stay in the USSR, Cuba, China, or Europe.

Don't believe the myth that socialism or communism can eradicate poverty. The Soviet Union proved that. Cuba is a fine example now. It doesn't eradicat poverty, it multiplies poverty. Rather than having a small percentage of the population in poverty, 90% of the country is piss poor. Even today large portions of the former Soviet Union still do not have indoor plumbing. My wife lived there for 6 years and you wouldn't believe the stories she can tell.