T.E.A. Parties

[pdsavage]

Strange that Fox News was promoting this,is the news suppose to be bias?
Anyway I watch CNN....

 

[bluey]

Unfortunately the objectivity of journalism has been lost for some time now. It may be something we never get back unfortunately. A casualty of the rampant partisanship in this country. CNN and the major networks are also equally to blame.

 

[Davaroo]

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Uhhhh, you DO know where government gets it's money, right?

David , unfortunatly a lot of people don't. My income taxes weren't much this year, but it amounted to two Social Security checks. I actually don't mind paying taxes, because I feel every American should have a hand in supporting their Government, as opposed to the Government supporting them. The EIC is the greatest ripoff to the taxpaying citizen in my opinion ever. This thought did occour to me this AM. If the top 1% of the population is paying 50%+ of the taxes, perhaps we should let let them run at least 50% of the country.

Hallelujah, I see the light! Well said, Gary.

If you recall from the Pledge of Allegiance, America is a Republic, "I pledge allegiance... to the Republic for which it stands," etc.

In a Republic, the member states are free to pursue those ends which are profitable and beneficial to them. Whats good for Maine may not be what's right for California, for example. In the main, this still occurs.

In turn, the government supports that and makes it possible for them to prosper by providing services, structure and a central forum for them all to come together to mutual benefit. The states, for their part, maintain those government functions with their taxes. In case you didnt know it, this all originated with the Greek model of the city-state.

Think of a wagon wheel, where the hub is the government and the spokes and rim are the states. Neither by themselves are much good, but the hub is there only to provide support for the spokes/rim to do the work of moving forward.
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However, what has happened since compulsory wage taxation is the opposite. The government takes from it's members in ever increasing amounts and redistributes as it sees fit, without approval except that of it's own.

This is why the TEA parties have sprung up... some people are still aware enough to see this bastardization of the original intent that founded this nation.

 

[FutureChickenMan]

The main stream media didn't report what was going on. Stop counting on the MSM for your news. Look elsewhere. Pajamas media did a good job covering it as well as (ugh) Fox. The best news source is your fellow americans, put down the remote control and talk to them for crying out loud.

Here's plenty of videos of this "flop" event held by a bunch of right wing nutjobs.

http://www.youtube.com/results?uploaded=w&search_query=tea+party+april+15+2009&search_type=videos

If you really believe that this event was a flop and that nobody showed up then you need to open your eyes. Sure some political posturing took place as RINO's desparately grabbed on to our movement, but that was long after the movement was already underway.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

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Ok I watch Fox and don't really watch CNN. So I would like to know if CNN even reported that it was a nonpartisan event either before during or after the event if at any point at all? Because it was. Fox promoted it well after the grass roots movement began. And promoted it as nonpartisan.

 

[pdsavage]

Yep it was on CNN,they even had reporters out there reporting..
Thats how I found out about it...

 

[flopshot]

often the bias is displayed in what's NOT covered in the news.
if six protesters wearing pink were there calling someone a liar it would have been covered by CNN.

 

[pdsavage]

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Yep,but CNN did say how most of the other media hardly mentioned the tea partys...
Oh and I do watch my local news channels except FOX...

 

[SarahBeth9394]

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I didn't ask if CNN covered it. I asked if they covered it as a nonpartisan event?

 

[DiVon80]

Nothing from CNN. MSNBC had something about it on the bottom writting that scrolls across. Its realy sad what mainstram media is doing to the people. Is any one familar with the musician JOHN MAYER Well he did a song WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE. One Quote in the song is: "When you trust your television,what ya get is what you got,cause when they OWN the information they can bend it all they want". This why the people aren't waiting they are beginning to act.