Nationwide Chicago Tea Party Protests

[Annie]

Hmmm, seems NOT going away:

Talking Points

Talking Points and Theme for the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party

Draft, February 24, 2009

Theme:

Our Message to Congress:
REPEAL OR RETIRE

Repeal all your irresponsibile spending bills. Repeal Every single one of them:

The Mortgage Bailout
The $1 Trillion Pork-Laden Stimulus
The Auto Bailout
The Wall Street Bailout

If not, we will RETIRE you at the Ballot Box in 2010
We're signing up now. We're determined. We're in the right. We won't rest until you're out. We have the technology. We know how to use it.


Talking Points

The Problem

The Obama Economic Plan to borrow unprecedented amounts of money we don’t have in order to spend our money on political spoils projects we mostly don’t need is both morally and fiscally disastrous. It is the largest giveaway in American History. $1 Trillion for the stimulus is only the beginning of these big spending ways. Even the Congressional Budget Office says that the "Stimulus" Bill Congress passed and President Obama signed will create few jobs in 2009 and 2010, but will instead cause dangerously high levels of inflation as the Federal Government lets the Treasury printing presses run indiscriminately.

There’s one proven way to create jobs: cut income taxes and cut wasteful spending on projects that are beyond the scope of the proper role of government. Republicans and Democrats alike have spent too much money in the past few years on special interests.
7 per cent of all mortgages are not current. Why should the 93% of homeowners who have been responsible and paid their mortgages bail out the 7 %, many of whom have been irresponsible.

Big companies with highly paid lobbyists have cut back room deals to get special financial benefits to bail them out of their own bad decisions. Their greed and high lifestyle has been paid by the taxes of the average Americans who, though not represented by lobbyists, pay the taxes, fight the wars, and make this country work. Wall Street, Detroit, Citibank – none of them deserve our money just because they are large organizations that have failed, but are politically connected.

We’ve borrowed $1 trillion we don’t have, and it will be paid for by our children and grandchildren, in the form of lost opportunities arising from the inflation and debt load they will be burdened with due to our own profligacy.

The Solution

We are determined netizen patriots, whose minds and hearts are fixed on the noble purpose of restoring the limited Republican form of government the Founders created in 1789. It took 220 years of blood, toil, and tears to maintain and preserve our Republic. In one month, following up on several years of a slow slide to Socialism, Barack Obama and the Liberal Democrats have done their best to destroy the very principles of individual responsibility on which this Republic was formed.

We are determined to protect our Republican form of Government, and will work tirelessly without rest so long as free markets and individual liberty are under attack from the forces of Governmental Control of all forms of economic engagement.

Thanks to American innovation and free markets, we now have the technology tools that can help us succeed in our cause. As the success of this rapidly organized nationwide protest today shows, we know how to use these tools. The good news is we are only at the very beginning of that process. Come join us and become a netizen patriot, and help restore limited government to the United States.

We ask you today to sign up and join our noble cause. You can sign up now at a table hosted by #TCOT, Smart Girl Politics, the #Dontgo Movement, or one of many conservative candidates for Congress and the Senate who are attending today.
Support a Conservative Candidate and help him defeat in 2010 a Congressman or Senator who voted for the Porkulus plan, the Mortgage Bailout, the Wall Street Bailout, and the Auto Bailout

Sign up for action projects to support the immediate Repeal of Porkulus and Bailouts, and support laws to cut taxes and reduce spending

The following is a list of Tea Party events compiled by TCOT.

See you all on Friday!!!

Washington Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Washington Monument
Washington, DC

Chicago Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
11:00am - 12:20pm
Daley Plaza Civic Center
50 W Washington St.
Contact Info:
312-282-9310
[email protected]

Atlanta Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Georgia State Capitol Building ~ Downtown Atlanta
206 Washington St SW
Atlanta, GA
Contact Info:
770-878-0024
[email protected]

Orlando Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lake Eola (across from Panera Bread)
Lake Eola
Orlando, FL
[email protected]

Ft. Worth Tea Party
The Cowtown Bar & Grill
Friday, February 27, 2009
3pm to 7pm
7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76116
682? 817? 570-7910

Pittsburgh Tea Party
February 27, 2009
12pm - 1pm
Point State Park
Pittsburgh
[email protected]

San Diego Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
9:00am - 10:00am
Just north of the Star of India, on San Diego Bay
San Diego, CA
619-606-0337
Nationwide Chicago Tea Party

Tulsa, OK Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
11:00am - 1:00pm
Veteran's Park
21st & Boulder
Tulsa, OK
918-760-8282
[email protected]

Nashville Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Legislative Plaza
Nashville, TN

St. Louis Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
11:00am - 12:00pm
The Steps of Arch
Wharf Street
Saint Louis, MO
636-346-1196
[email protected]

Houston Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
11:00am - 2:00pm
Fondren Green at Discovery Green Park!!! Right in front of Amphitheatre!!
Houston, TX
281-579-1956
[email protected]

Portland, OR Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
9:00am - 10:00am
Pioneer Courthouse Square @ the corner of Broadway & Morrison (in front of the STARBUCKS)
715 SW Morrison St
Portland, OR

Kansas City, MO Tea Party
Saturday, February 28, 2009
10:00am - 2:00pm
J.C. Nichols Foundatin - Kansas City, MO
47th and J.C. Nichols Parkway K.C. MO
Kansas City, MO
[email protected]

Cleveland Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Public Square in Downtown Cleveland
1 Public Square
[email protected]

Denver Tea Party
Friday, February 27, 2009
10:00am - 11:00am
The East Capitol Steps
Denver, CO
[email protected]

Philadelphia, PA
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Liberty Hall, Philadelphia
Devon Generally, 215-259-3868
[email protected]

Seattle, WA
Seattle Sons & Daughters of Liberty: A Seattle Action Network
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Westlake Park
410 Pine St., Seattle, WA
[email protected]

Los Angeles, CA
Friday, February 27, 2009
9:00am - 10:00am
Santa Monica Pier
[email protected]

Lansing, MI
Friday, February, 27, 2009
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
State Capitol in Lansing on North Capitol Ave.
Joan: 517-282-2042
Wendy: 517-652-5855
[email protected]

Fayetteville, NC
Friday February 27, 2009
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Liberty Point Resolves Marker
Downtown Fayetteville, Hay St.
Ralph Reagan

Shelby County, AL
Friday, February 27, 2009
12pm to 1pm
Hwy 280 at the beginning of the crest going into Chelsea
at entrance to Eagle Point Neighborhood

Greenville, SC
Friday, February 27, 2009
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Reedy River Park - Banks of the Reedy River
West of Main Street, behind the Peace Center

Columbia, SC
Statehouse
no add'l details available at this time
Pls follow link for up-to-the-second
developments.

 

[garyd]

If I get laid off between now and then I'll be there...

 

[Xenophon]

I wonder if we will still have an economy by 2010.

 

[garyd]

Probably not what it is now and likely worse. You can't keep yanking half the money out of the top 20percent of the economy uying 80% of it to grow he government and sticking the other 20 percent back in at the bottom and not generate a shit load of inflation even if you aren't printing money to beat the band an we almost certainly will be.