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To: DMaA who wrote (301163)	4/15/2009 6:59:37 PM
From: DMaA	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793738

This guy is a progressive democrat: Local view: Protest needed against U.S. government spending orgy The economy is in crisis. Elected officials, desperate to appear compassionate and competent, rush to implement alleged solutions without regard to their costs or unintended consequences. By: Bob Hansen and Russ Stewart, Duluth News Tribune The economy is in crisis. Elected officials, desperate to appear compassionate and competent, rush to implement alleged solutions without regard to their costs or unintended consequences. At the state and local levels, politicians point to growing budget deficits, unemployment and slumping real estate markets and cry out for assistance from the federal government. Congress and the president hear the cries and use them to justify reckless spending and unprecedented public bailouts. Bailout pledges by elitist elected officials and public bureaucrats now total $12.8 trillion. That’s more than $42,000 for every man, woman and child in the country. The total economic output of the U.S. was $14.2 trillion last year. Our leaders have committed to economic policies that spend 90 percent of that! Where will the money come from? Apparently from a combination of borrowing and inflationary monetary policy. Our national debt is $11.1 trillion, and our nation faces trillion-dollar budget deficits for the next several years. It is inevitable the Federal Reserve will be forced to buy more U.S. Treasury bonds to fund these deficits. When that happens, expect double-digit inflation. Those leading this orgy of spending do not represent the majority of Americans. Winners of the 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections won with the support of 24 percent, 28 percent and 30 percent of eligible voters. Though they were picked by a small fraction of citizens, our current and former presidents have run up the largest debt in the world’s history — with no end in sight. As bad as this is for the current generation of voting-age Americans, the real costs of irresponsible spending will be borne by those who cannot yet vote and those not born. Today’s decision-makers are economically shackling their children and grandchildren with debt so the consequences of decades of profligate spending punctuated by the past year’s unprecedented bailout of the financial industry don’t have to be faced. Both major political parties are responsible for this tyrannical act, an act that steals everyone’s economic and personal liberties. Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” For government to provide desired programs for the present generation through deficit spending is dangerous fiscal policy and fundamentally immoral. Congress and the president have neglected their constitutional duty to promote the general welfare. Rather than managing the nation’s fiscal affairs in such a way as to place blame with those responsible for the financial crisis, they have ignored history and have directed scarce resources from the public treasury into the private hands of banks, insurance companies, auto manufacturers and other private interests. It is clear they work more for them than for we the people. It is time to tell our so-called leaders we see what they’re doing, we’re sick of it and it must stop! Since the ballot box cannot avail us, we must resort to protest and direct action, just as our forebears did in 1773. Colonists, tired of being subjected to taxation without representation, dumped British tea into Boston harbor. It was a symbolic gesture, but the message was clear: Government must represent the people. We are, once again, faced with a government that doesn’t seem to care about average citizens or future generations. People who work are taxed. And those who created the problem are rewarded with hundreds of millions of dollars in executive bonuses. The silent majority can be heard only if we speak out for our children and ourselves before it’s too late! BOB HANSEN is a lifelong Duluth resident and the owner of three Duluth-based businesses. RUSS STEWART of Duluth served two terms on the City Council and is an instructor at Lake Superior College.

To: DMaA who wrote (301163)	4/15/2009 7:14:04 PM
From: LindyBill	41 Recommendations Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 793738

Here is my speech for today: Hello, fellow terrorists! Never thought I would be called that. But we have the Liberal Elites scared with these tea parties and yesterday Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security issued a nine page white paper saying that anybody who disagreed with Obama was a right wing extremist. And out of that group was the people who would become right wing terrorists. I didn't know you people were planning to bomb Aloha Tower! This morning our President tried to calm things down by telling us that all was well, we just needed to sacrifice while he led us. And don't look behind that curtain, little girl! Pay no attention to any Acorn members moving among you. They are simply sizing you up hoping that they can take over as your "block warden." This is an "anti-big government" movement. Senators like Arlen Specter have muddied the waters, and advocates of "Big Government Conservatism" have convinced too many of us that there is no hope for electoral success in trying to limit or shrink the massive entitlements of the Welfare State. What started these tea parties was the classic "grasshopper/ant" story. A lot of people went way over their heads on mortages and now the Obama wants those of us who pay our bills to pay for those who can't. Add this to the Wall Street bailouts and we are all "madder than hell and not going to take it anymore!" Pelosi and Reid look around after inauguration day and said, "Oh boy, oh boy oh boy! We can spend trillions now on all the wonderful welfare programs we have wanted." When the timid conservatives left in DC asked, "but where are you going to get the money?" They replied, "We don't need no stinking money! We have THE LIGHTWORKER!! Do we have a right to be mad? National Public Radio talk shows have been holding "pre-coverage" of the tea-parties by talking up the "crazy, hate-filled talk on the right". But we have every right to be mad. These bail outs are just like a stick up. What happened is we woke up one morning to hear: "Your money or your life." We're being told that unless we cough up hundreds of billions of dollars for Wall Street the country will become Somalia. We are getting our pockets picked. Bailouts offend all of us. We elect politicians to do things we want and stop things we don't want. But this crisis has exposed the political class as totally in the pocket of Wall Street. Sen. Chris Dodd's sucking up to AIG is in the open. Barney Frank's only business experience was helping his boyfriend run a sex ring out of his apartment. And so there's a lot of political spinning going on from elected officials while the non-elected whisk away the money. Right this minute, the agencies of the political system--the Fed, FDIC, Treasury and others--are forking over the national treasury like there's no tomorrow. Transparency? Fuggedaboutit. Go to the Treasury's Web site and try to figure out the Public-Private Investment Program. Accountability? None! And especially not during congressional hearings, which are nothing but political sputter and agency cant. Justice, the judicial kind, has been a no-show. The whole point of being a nation of law is that the law will punish. But few are getting punished. In fact, many of the bums who dumped us into this crisis will make tons of money from the cleanup. Finally, we are scared, pure and simple, at the vast amount of government spending. If we can spend our way into prosperity, why are we having a recession now after years of defict spending? These Billions of dollars of bailouts come on top of billions of dollars spewed out in the so-called stimulus package and next year's budget. What is going to be the result of this spending? Ballooning budget deficits and the national debt, wicked inflation and climbing taxes. Being afraid is the only reasonable response. If we end up down here some coming April 15th to pay our taxes from a wheelbarrow full of money, not just us, but the world is under. Obama kept talking about only taxing the rich, but the first tax bill he signed was a tax on the poor. A 62 cent raise in the price of a pack of cigarettes. First he comes for the cigarette smokers, because he knows most of us don't like them. Next he's comes after you and me by doubling the cost of our gasoline, lights and air conditioning with a Carbon Tax. So what can we do? First off, clean up your personal thinking. An expression that is speading across the country is "Going Galt!" Who was John Galt? The hero of a novel called "Atlas Shrugged." To "Go Galt" means you quit apologizing for what you are doing right. * "Going Galt" means realizing that you have a right to your own life, the pursuit of your own happiness, and to the rewards you've earned with your labor. * "Going Galt" means realizing that you don't need to justify your life or wealth to your neighbors, "society," or politicians, or bureaucrats. They're yours, period! * "Going Galt" means realizing that the needs of others do not give them a claim to your time, effort, and achievements. After that, go after the Pols at the City, county, State and National level. Inundate them with Emails, letters and protests. Hit them so hard that they become more afraid of losing their seats than losing their payoffs. Form a "Face Book Group" of people in your local district. Meet as a group with your councilman, assemblyman and state Senator. Be tough with them. There is nothing that scares these people as much as a group of THEIR voters unloading on them. They will want to tell you about all the "good" they are doing. For example, Senator Inouye and Congressman Abercrombie are coming back here to tell you they have pushed though over a billion dollars of earmarks between them. What they won't tell you is that when they combine with the other 99 Senators and 434 congressmen doing the same thing they are going to break us. We need to force our local pols into keep our civil servants from becoming our civil masters. The budget is tight? Tell them to freeze hiring and cut employees by 10%. They can get rid of the "Al Qaeda" types first. You know the ones. "Bin Loafing, Bin Hiding, and there's Bin Sleeping." Many of us are going to see cuts in our pensions and medical plans. Let them share the pain. Their pay and benefits are already way above those of most private Hawaiian workers. It's time to clean out our political house. There is a lot of truth in that old song, "What did you learn in school today?" I learned our government must be strong. It's always right and never wrong. Our leaders are the finest men. And we elect them again and again. THAT HAS TO CHANGE!!! WE NEED TO THROW THESE BUMS OUT!! When you do these things and others join in, all across the country people will find, If you don't let the liberal elites mess you up if you don't let the media's lies mess you up If you don't let the bureaucrats mess you up If you don't let the Politicians mess you up YOU'LL WIN!!! So go after them, folks. And get them!