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Tax Day Tea Party
Tax Day Tea Party
Are any of you involved in one of these TEA (Taxed Enough Already) gatherings today?
My wife and her siblings are going to one today in NJ. While I am not at all happy with how things are going I am not sure what these events will accomplish, I guess it cannot hurt.
Here is a summary of the movement:
"The Tax Day Tea Party is a national collaborative grassroots effort organized by Smart Girl Politics, Top Conservatives on Twitter, the DontGo Movement and many other online groups/coalitions.
The Tea Party protests, in their current form, began in early 2009 when Rick Santelli, the On Air Editor for CNBC, set out on a rant to expose the bankrupt liberal agenda of the White House Administration and Congress. Specifically, the flawed “Stimulus Bill” and pork filled budget.
During Rick’s rant (see video below), he called for a “Chicago tea Party” where advocates of the free-market system could join in a protest against out of control government spending.
A few days later, grassroots activists and average Joe Americans began organizing what would soon become the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party effort.
On February 27th, an estimated 30,000 Americans took to the street in 40+ cities accross the country in the first nationwide “Tea Party” protest.
Organizers of the February 27th events pledged to continue on with an even bigger and better protest to follow the first. With April 15th being “Tax Day”, it was decided to schedule the second round of Tea Party protests to ride alongside the tax deadline.
And with that, the “Tax Day Tea Party”, the second round of the Nationwide Tea Party protests, moved into reality."
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I went with my wife to the tea party, our neighbors went also. The crowd got lots of support from motorists passing by. Our tea party was a couple of hundred strong. Not bad for a small commuter town in the middle of a rainy day, on tax day!
The crowd had some obviously negative sentiments on the quality of our leadership in Congress as well as our NJ Governor Corzine.
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