Nationwide 'tea party' protests blast bailout

[biopowertoday]

Source: cnn




http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/tea.parties/index.html

updated 5 minutes ago



Nationwide 'tea party' protests blast bailout

* Story Highlights
* Internet-driven movement sparks more than 300 protests against bailouts
* What began with bloggers was fueled by broadcast personalities
* Anti-bailout rallies held across the nation


By Ashley Fantz
CNN


(CNN) -- Conservatives are showing they know their way around the Internet just as well as liberals, as more than 300 organized "tea party" protests raged across the nation Wednesday.
Thousands gathered at Cincinnati's Fountain Square on March 15 to protest taxes and government spending.

Thousands gathered at Cincinnati's Fountain Square on March 15 to protest taxes and government spending.

The protests are a backlash against President Obama's bailout policies.

Heralded on videos and blogs, the movement also appears, in part, a reflection of a general anger among people who contend the government takes too much from their pocketbooks. "TEA" stands for "Taxed Enough Already," according to teapartyday.com, which lists organizers and their phone numbers. ...............

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. No bailout would allow the economy to collapse so the teabaggers could then blame Obama for THAT.

[crankmob]

8. There's absolutely no reason to believe that forcing taxpayers further into debt prevents 'collapse'

But there is reason to believe standard of living for the average American and their descendants will be lowered because of it.

America used to have the ability to manufacture it's way out of recession. I wonder how this one will play out considering USA doesn't have that option anymore.

[Egnever]

9. Really?

Have you looked at the news lately? As someone else said in another thread,

The best stock market month in six years… Consumer confidence and spending are up for the second consecutive month… Gallup
also finds “a significant improvement in public attitudes (about the economy) after nearly two years of downbeat forecasts.” (That’s
significant because consumer spending - and thus economic activity - rises along with consumer confidence)… Orders for “durable
goods” – refrigerators, autos, TVs, etc. – are up for the first time in six months… New home sales rose at their fastest pace in ten
months… Four banks have already paid back their “bailout” loans to the government and more are hurrying to do so (that some
seem to think “bailout” means a giveaway is consequence of the inaccuracy of the word), with Goldman-Sachs being the latest to
announce repayment… The renaissance of the renewable energy sector of the economy has begun…

What did you pay in taxes this year BTW? Or did you get a big fat refund? I am betting you got a refund.

[crankmob]

10. Stock market is not the economy.

The recovery has not started yet.

[Egnever]

11. There was more there than the stock market

did you just ignore the rest?

[crankmob]

12. yeah, pretty much..

We are not in a recovery yet.

[Egnever]

13. Perhaps not but the signs are there that we will be

Really burns yer nards dont it?

[crankmob]

14. why would you think that it 'burns my nards'?

and no, the signs aren't there.

[IDFbunny]

17. Maybe you haven't noticed the pink slips still printing

My refund is MY money given back to me, not a grant or giveaway.

The collapse of the '29 market wasn't complete until three years and six false bottoms later.

[MarjorieG]

2. No mention of Bush taxes and bailouts?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. A month ago?

This all happened on March 15?

Really?

Hmmmmmm.

I missed that.

Damn opiates. I miss all the good stuff .....................

[tomm2thumbs]

4. yawn - oh, I'm sorry did someone say election?

I thought so.

[Javaman]

6. we are now being treated to the grand repub echo machine. nt

[biopowertoday]

5. The White House has plans to counter the tea party message with an event to remind

...............The White House has plans to counter the tea party message with an event to remind Americans that the president cut taxes in the stimulus package.

In remarks in Washington on Wednesday, Obama said he'd been true to campaign promises to lessen the tax burden on most Americans.
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"My administration has taken far-reaching action to give tax cuts to Americans who need them while jump-starting growth and job creation in the process," the president said. A tax cut enacted April 1, Obama said, "will reach 120 million families and put $120 billion directly into their pockets."

[marshall]

7. Protests are SO last century

In fact it went out of fashion in the 60s.

[Iowa]

15. I was just listening to NPR.

That little turd, Neal Conan, who hosts "Talk of the Nation", was giving the tea-baggers a big megaphone. I can't stand Conan. He seems to feel that it's his job to stand at the ready to make sure the right-wingers score points - no matter how damn dumb or factually wrong they are. He never fails to deflate a major score made by a progressive, or to intervene to prevent a complete and total victory.

Anyway... the point I want to make is that I wasn't hearing anything about the banker bailout from the protesters he had on. They were just the typical right-wing anti-tax folks who don't like paying taxes. They had no ideology or principles whatsoever, besides not wanting to pay taxes. I didn't listen to the whole show, but he had 3 or 4 on when I was in the car.

[jimnasium]

16. I could go for a cup of earl grey...

perhaps with a little cream, like the English do...

Oh... it's not THAT kind of tea party... Leave it to repukes to f-up a perfectly good time.

[TNOE]

18. BULL SHIT

Cincinnati had maybe 500 AT BEST at the tea party on Fountain Square. I watched it from my office window.

[4_Legs_Good]

19. LOL

That's just sad. You know they're going to bill it as "as big as any anti-war rally in recent years".

Feh!

David

[hedgehog]

20. "300 Protests raged across the nation" Raged?