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Tax Day Tea Party Pictures, Images and Photos

Today there will be protests across the country to send a message to Washington to STOP this crazy spending.

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Brian 15. April 2009, 18:34

Mine starts at 3 pm, I found American flags at a party store, I have 4 posters front and back, ready to party. Hoping for some get pix also.

pauliticalmind 15. April 2009, 18:46

Nice! I just got back from the first one. Small town, but around 250-300 people showed up. Good mix of young and old. 3 great speakers. Lotsa pictures, but haven't uploaded them yet. I have another one to go to @ 5:30. Have fun! :cheers:

Charlie 15. April 2009, 21:27

Joining one on the quad here on campus when I get off work in about 30 minutes. :up:

Angeliki 15. April 2009, 23:27

sorry to remind you that your party
should have been stareted eight years ago ,

where have you been??


http://www.scribd.com/doc/10760415/A-Decisive-President-Wasted-George-W-Bush

oh
just a reminder,
Barack Obama is cleaning up sh** that all the party animals left behind for eight years now ..... lets not forget that the tax returns you filing today are not for the less that 100days Barack Obama is in the White House.

pauliticalmind 15. April 2009, 23:36

taxing the American people to death is not going to solve anything :frown: i never stated that bush was a great president, but we were promised change, and all we're getting is screwed :down:

Angeliki 16. April 2009, 00:01

I just wonder how many taxes Barack added in the days he is in his Presidency??
can you please tell me what part of "taxing the American people to death is not going to solve anything" its connected to Barack?


Is GW Bush the sole responsible?
Absolutely not! But he has a share on it,
so why Washington wasn't listening before Barack?

I know how you are frustrated Paula,
we all are
some are fortunate to still have an income every month
some are not!
lets direct our energy on positive thinking not negative
I don't believe for one second
that we are where we are because
of the Democrats won the elections,
I don't believe any taxes were added since Jan 20th,
unless I missed something when I was desperately looking for a weekend job ,
see as a widow with kids,
I never thought that 7 days work will not pay the bills!
I can not blame the new administration for it and i can not have a "tea party"
when our departed politicians play in undisclosed locations their golf games.
istead I have to work seven days a week to make ends
meet and that's not because of Barack obama .

pauliticalmind 16. April 2009, 00:47

Let me leave it @ this...back in February, President Obama said, "In 2008 alone we paid $250 billion in interest on our debt - 1 in every 10 taxpayer dollars. That is more than three times what we spent on education that year. That’s why today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office."

Considering he just added about a TRILLION dollars to the deficit w/ the stupid stimulus package (that no one read before they voted on) and the housing bailout, I'm not so sure this is feasible. He could raise taxes on everyone (and he probably will), but that still would be an unlikely source to make a dent in the deficit. The only way to make a dent is to STOP spending.

When we're short on cash, we make some cuts in the budget, we don't overspend and try to dig out of a hole down the road. We don't take money from our neighbors because we know they have more than enough to go around. The government needs to learn how to be responsible with OUR money.

Politicians (and I'm looking @ both sides of the aisle here) keep borrowing and spending more and more money for bigger government programs, when they should be looking to CUT programs that are unnecessary and outdated. It is estimated by the Heritage Foundation that over $100 BILLION could be saved just by eliminating inneffective federal programs.

Want to see some pork that was approved in the un-read stimulus package? This is what our money's going toward:
http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1429&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS

So, it's not just that I'm frustrated, it's that I'm honestly scared for our country if we don't get this spending under control. I think positively every day when I see protests and demonstrations by people who are fighting for our Constitutional rights, and taking a stand to make our government more accountable.

Jen 16. April 2009, 00:50

Be interesting to see pictures. Good news that it's a good mix of folks.

Can only hope it will make an impression.

Angeliki 16. April 2009, 00:54

"Considering he just added about a TRILLION dollars to the deficit w/ the stupid stimulus package (that no one read before they voted on) and the housing bailout, I'm not so sure this is feasible."

The stimulus bill is imperfect, but it was far better than doing nothing. Indeed, a majority of Americans - some 61 percent - supported the stimulus because they felt it necessary that the government do something to get us out of the current financial crisis. We know that when the entire economy is stalled - when consumption, investments and the balance of trade are all in decline - doing nothing to reverse trends in those indicators will contract our GDP even further, leading to higher unemployment and further prolonging economic recovery. According to many economists, including Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, the only surefire way to increase GDP under this climate is to drastically increase government spending in the hopes of achieving a multiplier effect on the economy. This is precisely what the stimulus does. It's the "People's Bailout."

It is quite hypocritical, to say the least, for the Republicans to bemoan the largesse of this latest stimulus package. A large portion of the very same GOP now opposing $787 billion on economic stimulus was more than willing to help former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson pass the ultimately feckless $700 billion TARP bailout for Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and a host of other financial institutions.

Furthermore, the same Republicans who whined about several million dollars here and there for various projects in this stimulus bill did not object when former President Bush requested scores of billions of dollars in "emergency appropriations" every 6 months to conduct the Iraq war, and when billions more appropriated simply "disappeared."

Sudden concerns over "too much spending" cannot possibly be serious. If they are indeed serious, then where was the GOP outrage against their own profligate President? Why was it okay to spend $2 trillion on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and $700-plus billion on banks, but not $787 billion on domestic government spending, infrastructure improvement and middle class tax cuts? Why is it acceptable to build schools in Baghdad with federal tax dollars, but not in Brooklyn or in Baltimore? (A question that ought to be answered by those GOPers who demanded a cut of $25 billion in school construction funds). This bill spends government dollars in America on projects that will benefit Americans, sustaining and creating jobs for American workers.

and I will leave it @ that as well :heart:
nothing personal but always honest too.

Matthew 16. April 2009, 02:11

Six years late, wouldn't you say?

Brian 16. April 2009, 11:18

Paula,

You are arguing with a brick wall, something I learned to not do years ago. It used to be amusing but now it is just pointless.

Matthew 16. April 2009, 11:52

you are arguing with a brick wall, something I learned to not do years ago. It used to be amusing but now it is just pointless.



Of course, your own opinions are easily swayed. :lol:

What this world needs is more problem solving and less labeling and arguing.

Brian 16. April 2009, 12:06

I agree noah, this is an AMERICAN issue, it effects us all, it needs a AMERICAN solution. Placing blame on one party or one person doesn't solve anything.

And yes, my opinions rarely change.

Angeliki 16. April 2009, 12:15

"United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop
Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)

Brian 16. April 2009, 12:26

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

John F Kerry, draft dodger and former presidential candidate.

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Matthew 7. October 2009, 15:26

John Kerry served in Vietnam, and is a decorated (Bronze Star, Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts) Veteran of the US Navy.

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