Some excellent quotes from today's tea party in Boston

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#26
Thanks for the quotes, OP.

Just more proof that many of the folks going to these things are now beginning to actually think in sound bites.

Sad.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Thanks for the quotes, OP.

Just more proof that many of the folks going to these things are now beginning to actually think in sound bites.

Sad.
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#29
#29
These seem to be some pretty good quotes... a list of 10 principles comprised after 450,000 online votes were cast. I guess you're right... just a bunch of idiots who don't know anything.

The Contract from America
1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)

2. Reject Cap & Trade
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)

3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)

4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words—the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)

5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)

6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)

7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)

8. Pass an ‘All-of-the-Above” Energy Policy
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)

9. Stop the Pork
Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%)

10. Stop the Tax Hikes
Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)
 
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GASOUTHERNVOL said:
typical liberal media attack, lets take and interview a bunch of folks, and the ones that sound the dumbest, we will make them the story so it looks like the whole party feels that way. Been that way since Hearst.
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Yep. MN is a drive by POS just like the rest of them.

How about I walk down from my work site about 3 blocks into a 'heavily democratic leaning' neighborhood and collect some quotes?

Being a conservative, I'd be strung up by the bleeding hearts as an elitist or racist for collecting quotes from people who i am relatively sure will give a good sound bite.
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#37
Taylor Light, 19, a sophomore at Emerson College, held up a sign that read, “Get Off Our Socialist Commons.’’

“I think the tea party is a fear-mongering movement that spreads ignorance, hateful rhetoric, and anti-American ideas,’’
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Guy comes in with a sarcastic sign mocking the protesters then complains about the rhetoric?
 
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Eynice Ko handed out a “Pamphlet for the Informed Tea Party Member’’ that cited a Harvard study that found nearly 45,000 Americans die every year because of a lack of health insurance and a World Health Organization report ranking the US health system behind 36 other developed countries in overall performance.

"My goal is to dispel the misinformation that the tea party spreads,’’ said Ko, 21, a junior at Boston University. “If I can change one person’s mind, then I’ll be happy. I think a lot of people here don’t know what they’re talking about. They’re just angry at the government."
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Perfect, an anti-protester using cherry-picked facts to counter the people that do not know what they are talking about. I bet this guy hasn't a clue about how the WHO ratings are developed, what the real costs of the HC reform are or the fact that the death stat he quotes is not supported by other studies.

See ViM - there's plenty of crap on both sides.
 
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GASOUTHERNVOL said:
easy took their jobs
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Not true either........... We're not better off, YET... But we're not worse, YET, either. Same position we were in when he took office.

This summer will be big for both parties... If jobs start to rebound, it'll be hard to argue against democrats (rightfully so or not). If jobs don't rebound, it'll be hard to argue against republicans (rightfully so or not).
 
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Cash Vallin said:
Not true either........... We're not better off, YET... But we're not worse, YET, either. Same position we were in when he took office.
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so people haven't been losing jobs since Jan? Stupid media telling me they have
 
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Cash Vallin said:
Not true... I now have more in my paycheck after Obama took over. He lowered taxes for the lower to middle class.

Now, if you're rich, yes you pay more.
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are you proud of getting more because others had to pay more?
 
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#47
Obama didn't lower taxes for anybody. The withholding tables were adjusted to have less taken out of your check during the week, but your total tax liability for the year was unchanged.

also, tax credits are not the same thing as tax cuts. Obama and his supporters keep equating the two, which is just another lie.
 
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CountVolcula said:
We cant have the government being regulated by the people. How dare you sir!!
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It is regulated by the people... In elections every two years.

Protests are essentially just a means to have those elections go your way. Nothing wrong with that. Tea Partiers have a go at it. In November, we'll find out if the nation agrees with you and thus regulated government.
 
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