T.E.A. Parties

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I wasn't able to attend any of the tea parties due to a wedding but I fully support them and their stand on the matter!

I personally think our Government has lost their minds. And I think they are turning our constitution into what they want it to be, not what it originally stood for.....

Just my thoughts on this...

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

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I'm half afraid that's where we're headed, though.

I may get flamed for this, but during the last election, I noticed a LOT of "peer pressure" in voting. I worked the local campaign for Central Louisiana, and it seemed a lot of people were following the hype.

 

[AHappychick]

oh Clinton enacted quiet a few bad things, although I feel as though there was 8 years to correct his mistakes and I also feel a lot of important things fell to the floor as we debated over Monica and all that BS.

I don't blame any one person, and I feel as though we all should have paid a little more attention this past decade, although I am happy that now people seemed to have waken from their slumber and at least are forming an opinion one way or another.

Just curious because I did not see it but in the tea parties are people asking for all these big crooks to be put in jail? For the life of me I an not understand why they are still collecting bonuses and being allowed any where near any company that handles money. Because I will gladly join that I am shocked at what they have gotten away with and wonder if it will all just keep happening again if we don't make the penalty higher. I know there are new transparent regulations in the works but... the way it seems now they are all getting the fiscal high five for robbing us blind. And the excuse that they all did it under the law because the guidelines were ambiguous is not a good enough excuse to me.

Ok its 70 degrees out and I have an uncompleted coop so debate with you all later

 

[Davaroo]

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I'm half afraid that's where we're headed, though.

I may get flamed for this, but during the last election, I noticed a LOT of "peer pressure" in voting. I worked the local campaign for Central Louisiana, and it seemed a lot of people were following the hype.

Karl Marx is noted as saying socialism (and you can all it anything you want) is the half way step to communism. So you gotta ask:

If we are indeed moving away from that nasty old, wicked capitalism, which direction does that leave us to go?

 

[beak]

Karl Marx is noted as saying socialism (and you can all it anything you want) is the half way step to communism. So you gotta ask:

If we are indeed moving away from that nasty old, wicked capitalism, which direction does that leave us to go?

That's a real good question. It's beginning to look like capitalism doesn't work all that well. Capitalism comes with a whole lot of greed and that's what put us where we are today. The 2 party system doesn't work too well either. I don't think the framers of the Constitution knew that this country would have 300 some odd million people in 250 years. Nor did they take greed and corruption into account.

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

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I'm half afraid that's where we're headed, though.

I may get flamed for this, but during the last election, I noticed a LOT of "peer pressure" in voting. I worked the local campaign for Central Louisiana, and it seemed a lot of people were following the hype.

Karl Marx is noted as saying socialism (and you can all it anything you want) is the half way step to communism. So you gotta ask:

If we are indeed moving away from that nasty old, wicked capitalism, which direction does that leave us to go?

Why is it that no one seems to note the direction in which this country is taking? Do they not understand the severity of it? Or do they understand and just not care?

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

When I posted earlier of how this thread is like riding a roller coaster...

Reading all the posts this morning I felt hopeful, proud, angry, disgusted, patriotic, and sometimes like I was simply bashing my head against a brick wall. Not all in that order, and not all just once.
Does anyone else feel that while trying to talk politics?

I did not, however, see any one post that said "everything is fine, we can just coast now and let the administration take care of things". Even though we disagree on what the answers are here, if we can get past the "teabagging" insults, and the "my media is more honest than your media" fantasies, we all are basically saying the same thing to differing degrees - "the American Government is broken and it needs to be fixed".

I don't believe that Obama is the devil, I also am not under any fantasy that Bush or any republican or democrat is a saint. I think that they don't have a clue what goes on in "our" world (regular folks) and they need to get back in touch with that or be ousted from office.

I was offended by the Press Secretary's mocking and dismissing the protestors. I can get past the media "journalists" doing so, but to have someone who is supposed to represent the man who represents The People to behave that way was childish and, frankly, a little frightening.

It also illustrates perfectly the fact that the administration doesn't care one tiny bit about what The People want or have to say - they are going to do what they want to do anyway. They believe that we are not part of the equation. They believe they have the power to do whatever, whenever and to whomever they please, and we can't say Boo about it.

Even if you believe that "tea parties" are ridiculous - do you therefore believe that Your Own Voice should be dismissed so easily by those who are here to ensure our Freedoms? Do you not feel even the slightest bit Disenfranchised by those who hold our future in their hands?

meri

 

[Wifezilla]

It's beginning to look like capitalism doesn't work all that well. Capitalism comes with a whole lot of greed and that's what put us where we are today.

Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services in the absence of theft, force or coercion. Greed is not capitalism, theft is not capitalism, these are abuses of capitalism.​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I believe that Capitalism works just fine - the greed comes into or out of play with Personal Responsibility.

Who supported those banks and corporations? Who bought into the "borrow more than you can afford to repay" lures? Who was it who believed the path to Freedom and Happiness was through owning more and flashier and better?

The American Public did.

We are our own worst influences, folks. We hear a good story and want to believe it - even if it sounds too good to be true, we don't trust what we Know is probably gonna happen, and just believe it'll all work out in the end.

It is not just the Government who is to blame here. Anyone who bought into the Fairy Stories of what being "rich" is all about is just as guilty for creating that greed and corruption - we allowed it to happen, and now we must take our share of the responsibility for it.

Want to stop greed? don't be greedy.
Want to stop corruption? don't support the corrupt.

Like Galagher says "It's Just That Easy!!"

meri

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

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Capitalism is the free exchange of goods and services in the absence of theft, force or coercion. Greed is not capitalism, theft is not capitalism, these are abuses of capitalism.

Exactly.