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Attending a tax day tea party protest?

Are you attending a tea party protest?

  • Yes, I'll be protesting

    Votes: 5 25.0%

  • Yes, but not to protest (explain in post, please)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, not attending

    Votes: 15 75.0%
  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .
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What city (or area of the country if city is too personal)?
What will your sign say? Major issues you are protesting?
Maybe I'll see you there! :cool:
 
I'll be protesting in a Southern state (my user name is short for Dixie, btw) :2wave:
Not sure what my sign will say yet (better get on it!) but my husband's says "Don't Spread My Wealth, Spread My Work Ethic" and the other side says "I'll pay my mortgage and you pay yours!".

The bailouts were my "breaking point", so to speak. I never thought I'd be out protesting something. lol.
I think it is really, really wrong to be forcing people to pay for other peoples' mortgages. And now states like mine, that have a low cost of living, will be paying for states like Calif. and AZ. That is just not right and only by keeping gov't small can we be protected by injustices like that.

And I've found from speaking to a lot of others who are attending that a lot of us feel like the Republican party left us and we're more Libertarian at this point. The Libertarians are more like the Republicans used to be.

Anyway, it should be interesting to see what comes out of this. I was surprised by how many have RSVP'd in my area. We'll see!
 
I'm still trying to figure this out. Are these tea parties to protest the stimulus package?
 
Yes. I am in Texas. Not sure what my sign will be. :)
 
missypea said:
I'm still trying to figure this out. Are these tea parties to protest the stimulus package?
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They are just having their teabagging parties to protest anything and everything they want to bitch about, whether its taxes, the stimulus, socialism, abortion, evolution.... you name it, if it has anything to do with modernity, they will be be protesting it.

Of course, what is the ultimate in hypocrisy about it is that they are protesting spending and socialism, and probably a third or more of them are on social security and medicare (pure socialism), the taxes in place now are all Bush Administration levels, and most of them live in states that get far more money back in federal spending (pork) then they pay in income taxes. That would especially be true of the south.

So basically, most are protesting for the exact opposite reason's of the Boston Tea Party. In fact, being that Massachusetts pays in federal taxes far more than it gets back, should they have another real tea party, they would be protesting all those welfare queen red states living off of their federal tax dollars.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
They are just having their teabagging parties to protest anything and everything they want to bitch about, whether its taxes, the stimulus, socialism, abortion, evolution.... you name it, if it has anything to do with modernity, they will be be protesting it.

Of course, what is the ultimate in hypocrisy about it is that they are protesting spending and socialism, and probably a third or more of them are on social security and medicare (pure socialism), the taxes in place now are all Bush Administration levels, and most of them live in states that get far more money back in federal spending (pork) then they pay in income taxes. That would especially be true of the south.

So basically, most are protesting for the exact opposite reason's of the Boston Tea Party. In fact, being that Massachusetts pays in federal taxes far more than it gets back, should they have another real tea party, they would be protesting all those welfare queen red states living off of their federal tax dollars.
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The part in bold is what has me scratching my head. Granted I haven't heard or read a lot about it but from what I have heard it just seems disjointed.

There doesn't appear to be a common theme other than to protest in general
 
I'll be there. In the South. My signs have to do with spending and ridding the government of special-interest-corrupted incumbents.

I'm sorry you're so off the mark, SD. I thought you to be more intelligent than that. However, I guess when you're not involved in it, it might be hard to understand what is happening. I helped organize mine. Every single person involved in organizing, as well as every single person I have invited, as well as all of our guest speakers, are working class people. We're not disjointed at all. In fact, I've attended more meetings in the past month than I have in the past several years. We're very clear about our message and purpose. For the non-working crowd, we are holding a food drive with our event. I don't expect to see too many on Medicare. I, personally, have told my dad to stay home. See, most of those Medicare-aged folks would have trouble walking over a mile from their car to the protest, and then standing for three or four hours during the event. Parking is an issue at most of these events since they have grown so large, practically overnight. We had one in my area and it has morphed into four in the past two weeks, to accommodate the number of people expected.
 
Gabby said:
I'll be there. In the South. My signs have to do with spending and ridding the government of special-interest-corrupted incumbents.

I'm sorry you're so off the mark, SD. I thought you to be more intelligent than that. However, I guess when you're not involved in it, it might be hard to understand what is happening. I helped organize mine. Every single person involved in organizing, as well as every single person I have invited, as well as all of our guest speakers, are working class people. We're not disjointed at all. In fact, I've attended more meetings in the past month than I have in the past several years. We're very clear about our message and purpose. For the non-working crowd, we are holding a food drive with our event. I don't expect to see too many on Medicare. I, personally, have told my dad to stay home. See, most of those Medicare-aged folks would have trouble walking over a mile from their car to the protest, and then standing for three or four hours during the event. Parking is an issue at most of these events since they have grown so large, practically overnight. We had one in my area and it has morphed into four in the past two weeks, to accommodate the number of people expected.
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Gabby--Is there a common theme that I'm not seeing? What exactly is being protested?
 
No, why waste my time and energy?

Rather than being a one day wonder or a part time ineffectual gesture maker whose efforts amount to little more than making me feel I have done something vaguely important, I am a serious and chronic protester whose efforts amount to little more than making me feel I have done something vaguely important.

I post here at DP.

:cool:
 
missypea said:
Gabby--Is there a common theme that I'm not seeing? What exactly is being protested?
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The only thing I have seen around here, is a "Tea-Party" against taxation here. It was up on a big billboard. I'm not going, and I don't expect many will in my area, since I live in a city infested with communist loving hippies. I'm serious. There are alot of hippy leftovers from the 60's/70's here.

I'm going to play golf, and bury my head in a sand trap. :2razz:
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
They are just having their teabagging parties to protest anything and everything they want to bitch about, whether its taxes, the stimulus, socialism, abortion, evolution.... you name it, if it has anything to do with modernity, they will be be protesting it.

Of course, what is the ultimate in hypocrisy about it is that they are protesting spending and socialism, and probably a third or more of them are on social security and medicare (pure socialism), the taxes in place now are all Bush Administration levels, and most of them live in states that get far more money back in federal spending (pork) then they pay in income taxes. That would especially be true of the south.

So basically, most are protesting for the exact opposite reason's of the Boston Tea Party. In fact, being that Massachusetts pays in federal taxes far more than it gets back, should they have another real tea party, they would be protesting all those welfare queen red states living off of their federal tax dollars.
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Another hate-filled partisan rant from SD. You really are a piece of work! :confused:
 
I'll be at the one in downtown Mobile, AL at noon and might possibly attend the one in Fairhope, AL at 3.
 
missypea said:
I'm still trying to figure this out. Are these tea parties to protest the stimulus package?
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Yes, all the pork in the stimulus pkg. It started with protests against "porkulus", lol, and grew from there. People are also angry about the bailouts and wealth redistribution, plus the trillions in the 2010 budget. Just that everything is getting too far-reaching and success is being punished while screw-ups are being rewarded (with our tax money). We're fed up.

Some of the history is here:
Instapundit
 
P/N said:
Another hate-filled partisan rant from SD. You really are a piece of work! :confused:
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I personally like his arbritary 1/3 of them will be on government assistance line. Its nice to think things.
 
P/N said:
Another hate-filled partisan rant from SD. You really are a piece of work! :confused:
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I think you must have a hard time distinguishing between hate filled rants and someone just being a smart ass or engaging in sarcasm. Maybe this is due to some lack of self-deprecating humor on your part as a conservative or something.

You should lay off the personal attacks though. I was not personally attacking you as a conservative or anything, I was just being a smart ass. I am sorry, but just like there is that whinny, annoying, peta..ultra-greenie wing of the Democratic Party, there is also a deliverance wing of the Republican Party that people are going to make fun of. Just like people make fun of the loons that spend a year in the top of a tree to keep it from being cut down. If you are not part of the "deliverance wing" of the Republican Party, and I don't gather you are, then I am not sure why you are taking such a personal offense when someone makes a sarcastic remark about them. I mean do you really identify that much with this guy:

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WI Crippler said:
I personally like his arbritary 1/3 of them will be on government assistance line. Its nice to think things.
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I got that from my wife's mammaw that will be going to protest socialism, abortion, and evolution in schools. Yes, she and all her friends that are going to protest socialism, are themselves on Social Security and Medicare.
 
WI Crippler said:
I personally like his arbritary 1/3 of them will be on government assistance line. Its nice to think things.
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I don't know about a number but the country is full of people on Social Security......and growing as the baby boomers hit retirement age.
 
I will not be able to attend this protest but i intend to attend a future protest.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I think you must have a hard time distinguishing between hate filled rants and someone just being a smart ass or engaging in sarcasm. Maybe this is due to some lack of self-deprecating humor on your part as a conservative or something.

You should lay off the personal attacks though. I was not personally attacking you as a conservative or anything, I was just being a smart ass. I am sorry, but just like there is that whinny, annoying, peta..ultra-greenie wing of the Democratic Party, there is also a deliverance wing of the Republican Party that people are going to make fun of. Just like people make fun of the loons that spend a year in the top of a tree to keep it from being cut down. If you are not part of the "deliverance wing" of the Republican Party, and I don't gather you are, then I am not sure why you are taking such a personal offense when someone makes a sarcastic remark about them. I mean do you really identify that much with this guy:

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Ah, so when you were answering a question about the protests and why "they" (the protesters) were attending you really were referring to a small portion of the attendees. You just forgot to mention that til now. Gotcha. I don't know how we all missed that.

:roll:
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I think you must have a hard time distinguishing between hate filled rants and someone just being a smart ass or engaging in sarcasm. Maybe this is due to some lack of self-deprecating humor on your part as a conservative or something.
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I certainly can laugh at myself or other conservatives when the humor is actually FUNNY. ;)
 
Dix said:
Ah, so when you were answering a question about the protests and why "they" (the protesters) were attending you really were referring to a small portion of the attendees. You just forgot to mention that til now. Gotcha. I don't know how we all missed that.

:roll:
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Hardly, when you add up all the attendees that are in states that get back in federal spending more than they actually pay in taxes, add in all the attendees drawing social security and medicare, and you probably have a majority of the attendees.

Face it, good protesting is simply the province of peaceniks, naive college students living off their parents, loons from peta, and hard core leftists that wish they were hippies (basically, people that don't work and thus have time for it). You right wingers have never gotten the hang of it to do it right.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Hardly, when you add up all the attendees that are in states that get back in federal spending more than they actually pay in taxes, add in all the attendees drawing social security and medicare, and you probably have a majority of the attendees.

Face it, good protesting is simply the province of peaceniks, naive college students living off their parents, loons from peta, and hard core leftists that wish they were hippies (basically, people that don't work and thus have time for it). You right wingers have never gotten the hang of it to do it right.
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Nah, your posts aren't partisan at all! :roll:
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Hardly, when you add up all the attendees that are in states that get back in federal spending more than they actually pay in taxes, add in all the attendees drawing social security and medicare, and you probably have a majority of the attendees.

Face it, good protesting is simply the province of peaceniks, naive college students living off their parents, loons from peta, and hard core leftists that wish they were hippies (basically, people that don't work and thus have time for it). You right wingers have never gotten the hang of it to do it right.
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I personally don't give a sh*t how much my state gets back in federal spending compared to what we pay in taxes. Why should that make a difference, really? I'm tired of too much spending, period. I don't care if it's in my state or not.

And people have been forced to pay into the social security and medicare systems for YEARS. I don't think they're obligated to turn down the money when it's time for them to retire. (Do you plan on doing that?) They were forced to pay it to the government instead of investing it on their own. Do you believe they forfeit their rights to complain about spending because of that?
 
P/N said:
Nah, your posts aren't partisan at all! :roll:
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Yes, I was certainly quite serious when I described who made good protesters. :roll:

However, it is just ridiculous to be on medicare and protest socialism, or to live in a state that gets back in spending more than it pays in taxes, and protest taxes and government spending. It is the ultimate in irony consider than in the original tea party, the protesters were protesting, among other things, their tax dollars going abroad. Basically, its those yankee blue state liberals that watch their tax dollars go to places like Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Alaska, and so on that ought to be protesting yall.
 
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