Comments on: Tax Day Escambia Tea Party To Protest Government Spending

By: LULU

LULU — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:10:45 +0000

I just returned from the tea party and it was a great sucess!! Over 3,000 people!!

Yes, it has stopped raining for now.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:36:03 +0000

I understand your point and agree that government that is not working or un-necessary needs to be cut and some programs are too big, but it is not just Democrats that do this, as you pointed out earlier.

Have a good one; have to go.

Has it finally stopped raining down there????

By: LULU

LULU — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:30:03 +0000

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”

President Obama

By: LULU

LULU — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:50:07 +0000

At any rate this protest is not about FDR’s policies, it is about bigger & bigger government and more & more taxes without the politians that WE elected representing the majority of the people. Our congressmen and senators are more interested in pleasing the lobbist and our Presidents liberal policies than they are in pleasing “we the people”. It’s time they hear from us. The liberals don’t mind speaking their mind, now it’s time for conservatives to be heard.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:17:13 +0000

The is a book that reviewed our government growth and it foreign policy in the 20th century to now and it was WWII and the Cold War that were the events that saw the largest growth in our government; The basic premise is on our empire building and its negative impact on our country. As for FDR’s policies, there are those that disagree and said they helped and that the start of WWII just made a bigger push by the public sector to put people to work. Those against usually are just looking at some pure free market ideas but forget the programs did put people to work. Without those programs it would have been much, much worse.

But on FDR’s policies, to show the debate, a professor at Wake Forest asks economists if they worked; his response was a 49% to 51% split. So this debate can rage on and on.

By: LULU

LULU — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:48:02 +0000

These tax day tea parties did not just start. They have been occuring since 2006, protesting Bush policies. They have simply grown in light of all the bailouts and the unread simulus pacakage. As for FDR’s new deal economic, historians almost all agree that it did nothing to end the depression. It did however start a cycle of dependence on the federal goverment i.e. welfare and social security. This protest is not just about taxation, it is to protest the slow loss of our freedoms, the freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly being two of them. I will be there to have my voice heard.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:05:34 +0000

Rings hollow when Republicans allowed Bush and company to run up huge debts on his wrongful invasion of Iraq. The cost to be estimated at 1 to 2 trillion dollars.

As for the stimulus, are we to sit back and let the ideal of maintaining a pure “free market” with no intervention to slow the impact of the recession? Are programs that put money at the bottom of the economy wrong? Was FDR’s New Deal wrong to put people to work so they could put food on the table? Ask the generation that grew up during the Depression if they would have preferred the government to maintain Hoover’s policies of not interfering with the gyrations of the market during an extreme condition. My grandparents refers to that time gave me the impression that people in the region had nothing and could have literally starved to death. I realize not all of Obama’s policies are to my liking, but doing nothing when unemployment will hit highs not seen since the Depression is only hurting ourselves.