Five Questions for Tea Party Voters

[Anti Federalist]

Five Questions for Tea Party Voters

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/65697.html

We keep hearing how voters are fed up, and how the Tea Party movement is shaking the political establishment to its core. I guess unseating 40 or so members of Congress– less than 10% of the House and Senate- represents a radical change in the national temperament. Never mind that our new politicians will quickly will be co-opted by the same establishment they claim to run against– see Scott Brown for only one recent example.

I have a few simple questions for these angry voters and their favored candidates:

1) Have you consistently refused to vote for Republicans and Democrats, either by not voting or voting third party?

2) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Social Security?

3) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Medicare?

4) Do you advocate the immediate removal of U.S. military forces from foreign nations, and drastically reducing the DOD budget?

5) Do you advocate abolishing the Federal Reserve system and repealing laws that prohibit currency competition?

If not, you have NO business complaining about the “state of the union.” Social Security, Medicare, and DOD are the three primary causes of our national bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is the enabler that makes deficit spending possible, creates the booms and busts, and punishes savers. Unless you oppose welfare, warfare, and fiat currency, you cannot credibly complain about the economy, federal spending and debt, or “big government.”

[goopc]

Didn't you attend the Restoring Honor rally? The military is the only honorable part of the government and we should never question the actions of our soldiers or the DOD. They are willing to do things that you couldn't even imagine, so America can remain a free country!

/sarcasm

[Icymudpuppy]

+1776

[Sola_Fide]

Good article.

[phill4paul]

Good article.

I agree. Many are at least testing the waters. It's gonna take a while to undo a lifetime of PE/media brainwashing of the majority.

[oyarde]

Five Questions for Tea Party Voters

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/65697.html

We keep hearing how voters are fed up, and how the Tea Party movement is shaking the political establishment to its core. I guess unseating 40 or so members of Congress– less than 10% of the House and Senate- represents a radical change in the national temperament. Never mind that our new politicians will quickly will be co-opted by the same establishment they claim to run against– see Scott Brown for only one recent example.

I have a few simple questions for these angry voters and their favored candidates:

1) Have you consistently refused to vote for Republicans and Democrats, either by not voting or voting third party?

2) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Social Security?

3) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Medicare?

4) Do you advocate the immediate removal of U.S. military forces from foreign nations, and drastically reducing the DOD budget?

5) Do you advocate abolishing the Federal Reserve system and repealing laws that prohibit currency competition?

If not, you have NO business complaining about the “state of the union.” Social Security, Medicare, and DOD are the three primary causes of our national bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is the enabler that makes deficit spending possible, creates the booms and busts, and punishes savers. Unless you oppose welfare, warfare, and fiat currency, you cannot credibly complain about the economy, federal spending and debt, or “big government.”

Hey if you could just get me #2) & #3) I can talk everyone into #5)

[osan]

We keep hearing how voters are fed up, and how the Tea Party movement is shaking the political establishment to its core.

Which I have been viewing skeptically since it began...


I guess unseating 40 or so members of Congress– less than 10% of the House and Senate- represents a radical change in the national temperament.

In a nation that is as rife with ignorance and apathy as this one is, I would be inclined to consider that this might indeed be just that. Were I to consider this in the context of a nation of intelligent, well clued-in, and active citizens, I would hold a very different view.

My prediction, and please let me eat crow on this, is that nothing substantive will change and "they" will keep right on going until either some subset starts the shooting or the nation simply lays down and disintegrates completely into whatever form of *cracy it may.


Never mind that our new politicians will quickly will be co-opted by the same establishment they claim to run against– see Scott Brown for only one recent example.

It is precisely these sorts of examples that leave me with precious little reason to think anything will improve - anything of importance, anyway.


I have a few simple questions for these angry voters and their favored candidates:

1) Have you consistently refused to vote for Republicans and Democrats, either by not voting or voting third party?

2) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Social Security?

3) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Medicare?

4) Do you advocate the immediate removal of U.S. military forces from foreign nations, and drastically reducing the DOD budget?

5) Do you advocate abolishing the Federal Reserve system and repealing laws that prohibit currency competition?

For me, yes to all. I would include dissolution of the IRS, the elimination of ALL social programs, the universal dismantling of the public school system (a top priority), investigation/trial/execution of administration officials for treason and other crimes, removal of all federal regulation of business, the implementation of strict adherence requirements of business to criminal and equity law, and a whole load of other chances. And I would make it a top 3 national priority to hunt down every international banker with even the thinnest tie to the Fed or any other aspect of the federal government and assassinate him no matter to what nation they might attempt to flee. They would die savagely such that the hardest men on the planet would cringe to view the videos that I would broadcast worldwide as a message to the people of the planet: "Don't Tread On Me". Make me king for 24 months and I would alter the scheme of the world such that the rest of the planet would quake in their boots at the thought of so much as appearing to be violating our national sovereignty. There is much we need to do if we are serious about living freely. I don't think enough of us are, and we are therefore fucked. Let time prove me wrong. I welcome it.

[romacox]

Five Questions for Tea Party Voters

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/65697.html

We keep hearing how voters are fed up, and how the Tea Party movement is shaking the political establishment to its core. I guess unseating 40 or so members of Congress– less than 10% of the House and Senate- represents a radical change in the national temperament. Never mind that our new politicians will quickly will be co-opted by the same establishment they claim to run against– see Scott Brown for only one recent example.

I have a few simple questions for these angry voters and their favored candidates:

1) Have you consistently refused to vote for Republicans and Democrats, either by not voting or voting third party?

2) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Social Security?

3) Do you advocate abolishing or drastically reducing Medicare?

4) Do you advocate the immediate removal of U.S. military forces from foreign nations, and drastically reducing the DOD budget?

5) Do you advocate abolishing the Federal Reserve system and repealing laws that prohibit currency competition?

If not, you have NO business complaining about the “state of the union.” Social Security, Medicare, and DOD are the three primary causes of our national bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is the enabler that makes deficit spending possible, creates the booms and busts, and punishes savers. Unless you oppose welfare, warfare, and fiat currency, you cannot credibly complain about the economy, federal spending and debt, or “big government.”

1. Some do and some don't. The Tea Party does not have one head, and is made up of conservatives, libertarians, independents, and liberals who agree to disagree . Many are humble enough to know they are not all knowing, and are willing to learn. Most trusted the political leaders, and only recently learned that they were not to be trusted.

2. Some do and some don't. I personally agree with Ron Paul. It is a from of welfare, and needs to be phased out, but in a way that does not do undue harm to those who are now dependent on it.

3. Some do, and some don't. I personally feel it is welfare, and needs to be phased out along with all forms of welfare.

4. Some do and some don't. You see, many in the older generation remember the opposition to the Vietnam war, and the cruelty imposed upon those vets. No one wants to make that mistake again. As a result, they tend to go to the other extreme not realizing the cruelty therein. That being said: We are told that the war is being fought to protect us, yet they leave our borders wide open. Obviously that is not the motive of the administrations (past and present), and we can not afford to Nation Build the whole world. The war is a form of Corporate welfare to companies like Black Water.

5. Most do want to audit the Fed, but only a few of us want to abolish it.

I think the opposition would like us to fight amongst ourselves, to take focus of what needs to be done.... Most of us realize that in order to be united we must at times, agree to disagree because united we stand, and divided we fall. Once we get things headed in the right direction, there will be time enough to argue over the fine details..

[Pauls' Revere]

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All was good until I got to the part about the New Contract From America. We already have a contract with our government called The U.S. Constitution.

This reeks of of the contract with America back when Gingrich was involved in 94<? or so...oh wait thier at it again. This is the same gameplan from the playbook back then. I'm sorely disappointed with the GOP.