I haven't attacked the "Tea Party" in theory but only because I haven't had a clue about what they stand for.
I have however, shaken my head in disgust as news reports show racist signs depicting President Obama, cite "Death Panels" and continue to ask President Obama for his "real birth certificate".
Do I did a google search looking for the principals of the "Tea Party". I found a lot of information on what they consider themselves NOT to be.
There does not seem to be any ONE mouthpiece for the Baggers-
but these are the ideas that seem to seep into the blogesphere-and I ask-do these seem like over all national goals for our country?
There seems to be an awful lot "Male rights". God insertions and white guy kinds of privledge-in addition to the same arrogant, "manifest destiny" we seem to think our entitled asses can just reach out and grab.
I am not in any mood to return to "white male model of living.
Doesn't it seem a little creepy? Like the nations who can stone a woman to death for showing her ankle? Just plain creepy..
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Voting out each and every single incumbent up for re-election in 2010 who voted for the Stimulus Package and/or the 2008 Wall Street Bailout/
Electing to office only candidates who promise to support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (without any exceptions -e.g. in the case of war, emergency, or a 3/5ths vote in Congress) in an act that also requires spending reductions only (no raising taxes) for the first four years to balance the budget, as well as:
•The transition of Social Security from a mandatory pay-as-you go system to an optional system of private pensions.
A permanent repeal of the payroll tax.
1. The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is natural law.
2. A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong
3. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders
4. Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained
5. All things were created by God, and therefore upon him Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.
6. All men are created equal.
7. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.
8. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.
9. To protect man’s rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.
10. The God given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.
11. The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.
12. The United States of America shall be a republic.
13. A Constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.
14. Life and liberty are secure only as long as the right of property is secure.
15. The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free market economy and a minimum of government regulations.
16. The government should be separated into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
17. A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.
18. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.
19. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to the government, all others being retained by the people.
20. Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but Constitutional provisions should protect the rights of the minority.
21. Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedoms.
22. A free people should be governed by law and not the whims of men.
23. A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.
24. A free people will not survive unless they remain strong.
25. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
26. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.
27. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as the subjugation of conquest.
28. The United States of America has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.
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