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363281 tn?1643235611

Are Any Of You Going to Go to Any Tea Parties on the 15th?

There will be lots of Tea Parties on April 15th. I know I will be going to one near me, I am excited to see how it goes. How about you? What are your thoughts?
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535822 tn?1443976780
I would have said upper but am iot certain now... I will look at your other thread.way up the page . am interested in helping my country .
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Well, I stated in my post,( way up the page ),that I would like to see the American people get exited about changing NAFTA. I see that you guys have not lost the American spirit. This is what America is made of, different people with different opinions. However we all want to see this country prosper. We are planning a march against NAFTA in our small town on May 2nd. You will not here about this on the news but if people in small towns everywhere would march then the media will notice. As I said before if all the jobs move out of this country then we will not be able to purchase any of the products they send back. NAFTA will destroy the middle class in America and I'm sure I won't move up a class I will definately move down. Upper class or lower class, where will you be?
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535822 tn?1443976780
I agree with everything you said Melissa , each day form day1 the 'change'is happening OBamais  true to his word . You are right have folks fogotten what happened to us that day, my son -in law lost some of hiis clients and whilst they werent family it was totally shocking for him, one client threw themsleves from the window, he spoke to his wife before he did .Do I care if they are water boarded ..are you kidding.. if they know anything to stop that happening again,,. I used to watch MNBC when the election was on I was voting for Hillary I always thought she was in the middle (am not certain now  )but they totally didnt want a Woman president they derided her a lot so I switched to Fox and found them more balanced, I think they have become more protective now that its all changed .In CA all the Prisoners are being let out of prison, they closed Gitmo it was the first and "most important thing he did on his frist day in Office thay have to go somewhere. they are allowing 12 million to get immediate citizenship when my family has to wait years to get in legally, the 12 million will vote for him of course its all about Politics...I could go on and on,. Mellissa the offer is always open to come to my house, I am one of the Capitalists though so be prepared for a lot of comfort....lol
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765070 tn?1384869794
I really like to listen to Glenn Beck.  He is rather funny and is not afraid to speak his mind.  My husband never really watched him, but recently started.  He finds him very interesting.  As for freedom, we are gradually taking that away from each and every one of us.  We now suspend college students for praying at school with their teacher that was ill, we have to take catholic symbols down at colleges before the President speaks (because he said so), and the worst of all of them is that we can not make a documentary about media bias without being cuffed and taken to jail.  How is this Freedom?  Now, they are trying to make it mandatory for Doctors, no matter what they believe, to perform abortions.  I am rather concerned regarding the CIA leak about waterboarding.  I feel that we should know what is going on in the government.  But, the CIA and other issues regarding our national security, which could let terrorists have the upper hand, should not be made public.  I also feel that if the terrorists are being captured and held due to killing 3000 people in 9/11, what are we going to do with them.  Should we pamper and make them comfortable.  They did not have any consideration for our feelings or our rights when they decided to take lives from this country.  Do we really think that they treat us with kid gloves in their country?  I think not.........We cannot continue to just sit and discuss issues with these people.  They are not even rational human beings.  How can they be, when they will kill anyone that gets in their way of what they believe.  This is just my point of view.  

Actually, I like Fox news, because they are fun and outgoing, always have really unique reports and always have both sides point of view.  They are not vulgar and are very respectful of who is on and their opinion.  They are for the people, not just for Obama.  I personally love to watch Sherpherd Smith and his OMG comments.  I don't care to watch Hannity because he tends to get a bit extreme at times.  Bill O'reilly is a real character and he is very fair about all issues (I guess that is why fox news is #1).  I find that other networks tend to just bash anyone that does not have their views and always puts the other persons point of view down in a destructive manner.    

Margypops, a while back you said that if I come clean for you, you will throw in a trip to the beach.  If the weather here does not start looking up, I may just take you up on that offer.LOL
I have never been to CA.  Have a wonderful weekend.
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611067 tn?1458591483
I answered your questions.  If you scroll up further you'll see what my answers were.  
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535822 tn?1443976780
Shows we all care whatever our agendas Have a super nice weekend ya'll I appreciate everyone of you..
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535822 tn?1443976780
LOl
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Nobody has answered my questions yet. Bummer.
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535822 tn?1443976780
I agree with you helpin Utah .Glenn Beck says it as it is its a pity others dont listen to him...Wow one can see the agenda here alright.. hey I hope you have a good weekend all.
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Taxes aren't actually that high.... they are pretty low right now and it could be a lot worse, especially considering the challenges that we (as a nation) have. IMHO.

As far as Fox news, I've seen them do some pretty nasty things. I remember they had a story that had me all upset at the Democrats. And then I watched CNN and heard the other side of that story... obviously Fox news isn't fair and balanced. We all know that Sean Hannity recently booted off his liberal "buddy" on his show.

What cracks me up the most about Fox news is that they have Karl Rove, Oliver North and Mark Furman (the racist) all on there... hired as commentators I'm sure.  It just amazes me. But I still check in to hear their side of things... which isn't that much. No proposed solutions on there either.

Have a great weekend.
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363281 tn?1643235611
Absolutely not, I do not want anyone/ any company to fail. All I say is there has to be a line drawn somewhere, moderation, if you will. Yes, of course we need taxes, but, we sure do not need them so horrendously high.  I do not want China doing anything in this country, I do not trust them, the thought should be disturbing to all in general.

I agree, America has been warned so many years about making more energy efficient cars, and they just don't seem to listen. I am in "fibro fog" right now, but, I know there were several alternatives brought up, but they were ignored, now, that ticks me off regardless of what party does it.

As to Fox, well, I admit I am an avid watcher of it, and in all sincerity, I do not think they tried to match the parties against each other, maybe other channels have, and I have watched them too, so I can speak from what I have seen. This, however, is just my opinion.

I hope I have made some sense. I have been in horrendous pain lately and no dang doctor can help me, this is getting old fast, so, I am off here for now.

See ya.

Oh yes, one more thing, I don't care if it is republican or democrat, if you ask me, they all need attitude checks, they have all acted very irresponsibly, and need their behinds kicked good and hard.
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I have some very simple questions for you:

1) My perspective of freedom is allowing companies in the U.S. succeed. Now imagine if some of the companies, such as GM Motors, didn't succeed. Do you believe that the Chinese would come in and purchase some of these companies ? That thought disturbs me a great deal. And on another note, I believe it was the Democrats who warned these companies (GM, etc.) to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. Unfortunately they didn't and they laughed at the idea of rising gas prices. They, along with many people on the right, were wrong.

2) Would you prefer these companies to fail in the name of "freedom", knowing that it would cause a Depression ?


I don't believe Fox news necessarily started them, but they played a HUGE role in these "tea parties". Keep people angry at the Democrats (or Republicans) and that way it distracts them from intelligently debating the issues.


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611067 tn?1458591483
Sounds awesome!  I wish I could have gone to one.  We had hundreds of them around here.  In my town (which is very small) there were maybe 25 of them.  And, the protests were peaceful.  I'm so glad it went so well.  Of course, you know that the media is reporting that we are extremists because we protested now?  And, I also heard that Homeland Security was watching the people who were attending.  I guess because of our feelings about the Constitution and upholding it makes us extreme and on the same level as terrorists!  So sad!
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363281 tn?1643235611
Hi ~The Tea party was awesome, I was so glad I went, I had goose pimples all over, there were over a thousand of us there. To top it off, during the rally, a beautiful bald eagel flew overhead, everyone was cheering "USA, USA" it was wonderful. And NO, Fox News did NOT start these, the only reason folks think so is becasue they are basically the only channel that really told us about them and were fair about it, that is why so many did not know or understand their meaning.

Anywayd, I was sure glad I went, and I will continue to go to things like this, I feel like now, I am doing my part in a small way to help my country.
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611067 tn?1458591483
I don't watch fox news - don't have cable.  I watch local stations or PBS news.  I do not believe Fox started this.  I've been listening to people talking about this for months now before Obama came into office.  They were just as upset with Bush for his part in all this.  I don't think anyone can blame Obama - it's true he came into office with HUGE problems, but I personally do not like his solutions.  I didn't like Bush's either when he agreed to the bailouts!  In fact, the politicians in my local area who are supporting this spending and bail outs WILL NOT get my votes in our next election.  
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That is also my sense of it.

jd
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I don't believe that the turn-out for the tea parties was high. Heck... I could have been there. It is so easy to focus on negatives rather than the positives. Nobody likes paying taxes, but I realize what is going on and why we are in the mess we are in. Our president needs our support.

What bothers me about these "tea parties" is that Fox news pretty much started them... just about anyway. If they don't whine about one thing, I've noticed they whine about something else. Had Obama not bailed out some of these companies and we ended up in a Depression... they would have blamed him for that as well.

It is such a shame that the Securities Exchange Commission, which was set up to help prevent us from going into a recession or depression... was run by Bush's friend ! Imagine what would have happened if they had a competent person as CEO running the place. I don't think we would be in the situation that we are in now.... but history is history and we must now concentrate on the future.

I would like to see you answer the same questions that I asked margypops. I'm very interested in your answers.
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611067 tn?1458591483
The problem is the government was pushing our big auto companies to make more fuel efficient cars and they have been doing that at a HUGE expense because guess what cars are their biggest sellers and that are the most profitable?  The trucks, vans, SUVs - and so that's where a large part of the problem lies!  

My personal opinion is that we're already owned by China - who do you think gave us the money to bail out the auto industries!  Who else is helping us financially!?  If China calls us on the money we owe them - all H E L L will break loose!

As for a depression - if you think the bailouts will prevent that then I'm sorry most economists say that won't work.  It just prolongs the inevitable.  Let them fail and file bankruptcy just like you and me would have to do if we were in over our heads.  

Obviously, this is an issue that a lot of us will not agree on, but can we agree we want to stay free!  Do we want to have government running everything!?  Because that's what is going to happen and we thank Bush and Obama for that!
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611067 tn?1458591483
Mike:

You are entitled to your opinion.  But, most of us are tired of all our politicians right now.  I'd say out of 10 of my friends who adamantly supported Obama, maybe 3 are happy that they voted for him. Pretty soon, we'll all be saying "Hail Obama!"  Of course, that's also just my opinion that I'm entitled too.  

The turnout for the tea paries was rather high.  I am going off memory here and at my age my memory isn't so great these days (LOL!) and they say about 300,000 people attended tea parties.  And, that's only the people who were able to make it.  I know many people who could not get off work to attend one, like me.  If I know that many people than there are countless others as well.

It's time we let our politicians know whose country this is and get them off their butts to do the work of the people and stop lining their pockets with our hard earned money!

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I have some very simple questions for you:

1) My perspective of freedom is allowing companies in the U.S. succeed. Now imagine if some of the companies, such as GM Motors, didn't succeed. Do you believe that the Chinese would come in and purchase some of these companies ? That thought disturbs me a great deal. And on another note, I believe it was the Democrats who warned these companies (GM, etc.) to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. Unfortunately they didn't and they laughed at the idea of rising gas prices. They, along with many people on the right, were wrong.

2) Would you prefer these companies to fail in the name of "freedom", knowing that it would cause a Depression ?

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I have yet to see a real estimate of the total turnout but, from what I saw on Fox, - and they promoted it - the turnout was rather meager.
Obama's first quarter approval rating is 63% and that's higher than Reagan, Bush1, Clinton and Bush2 at the end of their first quarter. It would appear that the majority of Americans don't have an appetite for protesting Obama.
I think it was an attempt by the right wing to coalesce and grow their numbers and nothing more than that.
Mike
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611067 tn?1458591483
I was searching around this morning and found this on Glenn Beck's website about what the tea parties really were and I couldn't agree more!

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/24073/?ck=1
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535822 tn?1443976780
I cant believe what I am reading on this thread,,I keep seing this word,FREEDOM yet you know what is happeneing.... yet you say you believe we are getting more Freedom under this goverment and OBama, it is the opposite they are taking that away...well there isnt much point in even posting you are absolutly sold on it all,,,,Good luck
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Hi Melissa,

I do not worry about paying off the deficit. I also know that they interviewed people who went to these tea parties and they all had different reasons for attending and had different views on where their taxes should have gone. Sean Hannity, for instance, had commented that the $2700 (?) that each taxpayer is paying.. should go back to the taxpayer. How does that create jobs and stop AIG and other huge businesses from failing.... which would cause a depression ? It doesn't.

I am also concerned about much needed programs in my state being cut. Our new Republican governor is raising taxes and also cutting much needed programs such as education and assistance for disabled children.

I don't make judgments about people who receive government assistance. I'm not in their shoes, but I do suppose that there are people who abuse the system. Rather than focus on these people and illegal immigrants (who have cost taxpayers money).... I focus on solutions to the problems. And I just haven't seen any proposed solutions from these people at these tea parties. One thing I would like to see is churches stepping up to the plate. I don't know about the churches where you live, but the churches where I live seem to be all about big business. People donate to these churches with good intentions... believing that their money will help those in need. Well it isn't happening here. The fact that the Catholic church actually had those billions stashed away to pay off their victims, disgusts me. I guess there is greed all around.

As far as Obama, I believe he's had no choice to do some of the things he's done and I support him 100%. I wish Clinton and Bush would have addressed certain issues when they were in office, but they didn't. Or they tried to and failed. Either way, that put us in a tough situation. Obama has no choice but to address the economy in a way that he and the experts feel will save our country from a Depression. He has to also address education, health care, climate change, immigration (drug cartels), the real war on terrorism and energy. IMO... rather than worry, which I'm not because I'm already seeing positive changes due to some of these bailouts... I'm going to support our president and know that he needs my support.
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