Life of the Tea Party
by Carder
Tomorrow, April 15, over 600 cities in all 50 states will participate in the National Tax Day Tea Party, a grassroots movement dedicated to sending the message that we the people demand that Congress and the Obama administration stop the reckless spending, bailouts, and burdensome taxes.
This will mark my third tea party in central FL, as Orlando hosted one each in February and March, attracting over 5,000 patriots.
I didn’t expect a pro-life connection….
Lloyd Marcus was the headline performer for the Orlando Tea Party on March 21, and is scheduled to perform at the Sacramento Tea Party. He was recently profiled on PJTV in anticipation of the National Tax Day Tea Party.
Marcus has recorded a song about a woman who received an unexpected phone call from the son she placed for adoption 43 years prior, at age 15. I was so touched by the message and tone of the song that I phoned him to ask about it.
The song, as it turns out, is based on a true story. For decades there was no communication between the woman and her son, until one day she answered the phone and heard “Hello, Mom, it’s me.”
That woman is none other than World Net Daily columnist and Blog Talk Radio hostess Andrea Shea King. King’s voice is featured in the song, answering the phone. She was also one of the distinguished speakers in Orlando, sharing the stage with Marcus and others.
Find your state and local tea parties here or here.
JLS notes:
When the innocent are being slaughtered wholesale in a government-sanctioned systematic genocide, other ministries, to alcoholics, to the illiterate, to over-burdened tax-payers, etc., remain valid, but should be prioritized and put in perspective.
And please don’t worry about “upsetting some conservatives” by interfering with “their” event. To end child killing, we’re going to have to greatly increase the social tension over abortion, and since we’ve maximized our efforts over the years to confront the abortionists, the increase in social tension over child killing will have to target conservatives and Republicans who have grown comfortable and tolerant of de-criminalized abortion.
[Images courtesy of LetFreedomRingUSA and LloydMarcus.net]
But Jill, don’t you know that Joliet is “dirty.” LOL. I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
As for the pro-life connection: There definitely is one! Our tax dollars are funding abortion, we have every right to protest that!
Hilarious:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#30145811
Proverbs 16:8
I’ll be in Atlanta for the Tea Party! Sean Hannity here I come! I didn’t even know he was going to be there when I booked the trip. Hopefully I can get my mom and autograph, I’ll be her favorite daughter.
Where were the protests when Bush was spending loads and loads of money of the War in Iraq?
Posted by: Kat at April 14, 2009 3:03 PM
I seem to remember some, unfortunately those who were protesting were crazy (code Pink anyone?) And those of us who are sane realized we needed to protect ourselves from terrorists.
Good point Kristen. In addition, Pres. Bush actually did things to stimulate the economy as opposed to Obama who is repressing the economy with his huge spending bill and the tax increases which will soon follow. Pres. Bush also warned Congress about the potential problems with the sub-prime lending of Freddie and Fannie.
Posted by: Eileen #2 at April 14, 2009 3:37 PM
Exactly! But then we still have the lost souls like reality who are still as uninformed now as they were when Bush was warning everyone.
The liberals are still in denial. The coming inflation monster is going to be painful. This will be a friendly teaa party but it will grow and reach a tipping point.
Bystander,
Many of those hedge fund managers are unemployed and broke.
Taxes for the rich are too high. Think about it…. how many people are employed by a poor person?
Posted by: Bystander at April 14, 2009 8:49 PM
That whole post made me giggle.
It’s impossible to take you seriously, Bystander, when you criticise conservatives for spewing hate and lies and then you do that very thing yourself by playing the race card. You obots are so predictable.
Really, folks? You are going to protest slightly lower taxes for most of us and a top marginal tax rate less than half of what it was under Nixon? And this horrible burden imposed by a wildly popular president elected by the widest margin in decades?
Not exactly taxation without representation.
ROFL! The idea that any of the people who are attending these “tea parties” have seen any tax increase under Obama is laughable at best. On the other hand, the principles of the right wing organizations who are behind these events might actually be wealthy enough to be affected by the rollback of the Bush tax cuts. What a bunch of dupes you all are.
Posted by: Penny Dreadful at April 15, 2009 5:36 PM
“What a bunch of dupes you all are.”
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P D,
Your calender probably only has the next days activities listed. Your attention span does not seem to extend more than twenty four hours into the future or reach more than twenty four hours into the past.
I am sure there will be some survivors around to tell you where you are and how you got when you finally hear the ‘pop’.
yor bro ken
You know, sometimes I am amazed at how out of touch some of the liberal trolls on here really are.
No, I will not see my taxes go up under Obama’s New Deal. My husband will get 13 bucks a check back.
His company, however, will pay higher taxes. The people who create jobs in our society will pay higher taxes. Small businesses will pay higher taxes.
Then what happens? Those buisness either lay off workers or go overseas. Then the “little people” lose jobs.
Most liberals don’t seem to understand that “the rich” aren’t some evil machine. They are real people who have to make real decisions for the best of their companies. If we punish them, they will not be able to employ us. It’s really pretty simple.
Instead of relying on the government to take care of us while stealing from our companies, Republicans want businesses and individuals to prosper so that they can “spread the wealth around” by giving people jobs.
I don’t care if obama gave me 1000 dollars a month of someone else’s money. If I lost my job because the person he taxed couldn’t afford to keep me on, I’d still have a net loss. Even if it never affects me in the slightest the principle holds for society as a whole.
So no, I am not seeing a direct tax increase. I just care about my country and my fellow citizens enough to realize that taxing the top is not the way to help the bottom.
His company, however, will pay higher taxes. The people who create jobs in our society will pay higher taxes. Small businesses will pay higher taxes.
Can you cite a source for this right wing talking point? The Obama plan is to cut corporate tax rates.
As for taxing the rich, Obama’s hike in the top two marginal tax rates still keeps them lower than they were under Clinton, and the rich did just fine during his tenure.
We saw under Reagan that trickle down economics is a fallacy. Rich people don’t get rich by saving a few bucks in taxes…they get rich by selling lots of stuff to the rest of us.
This is like comedy central!
Ken – Do you ever make any sense?
Lauren – I’m sure that the multi-billion dollar, multinational corporations with their legal, tax, and lobby teams are really excited about your enthusiastic support. If you had any understanding about the way our tax code works, you would get the fact that they really don’t pay their fair share of taxes. You are a dupe.
Penny, so that’s what this is really about right? Making sure corporations in American (who are already saddled with one of the highest tax rates in the world) pay their “fair share” as determined by liberals who don’t even pay their own taxes.
It’s all about retribution and spreading around wealth.
…as determined by liberals who don’t even pay their own taxes.
You are cracking me up with your wingnuttery, Lauren. Where do get this pap?
This pap? Hmm perhaps I was refering to the plethora of liberal Obama nominees who failed to pay their taxes. It’s not exactly an obscure reference.