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July 4 Tea Party to be held at Arena BuildingFriday, July 3, 2009Southeast Missourian Conservatives hoping to build on the strength of the April 15 tax protest will hold a July 4 Tea Party from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday on the steps of the Arena Building in Arena Park in Cape Girardeau. The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook, will again be an event aimed at protesting high government spending and what the organizers view as unconstitutional actions to prop up private businesses. "We are not getting a say in how this money is going," co-organizer Kristi King said. "I am going back to school at age 35. I am a single woman, and I own my home. I am a working citizen and I can't even get help to go to school, and they are bailing out companies and spending money right and left." In April, a tea party protest event brought about 600 people to Capaha Park. Pertinent addresses: 410 Kiwanis Drive, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Capaha Park, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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Now that's what I'm talkin' bout! You got the right one bayyyyybeh uh huh!
This group of so called conservatives is not opposed to government spending. They are opposed to who receives the "bail out" as indicated by the co-orgainizer Kristi King. She is just angry because for whatever reason, she is unable to feed at the government trough.
another tea party?
Not that anyone wants tax payer money to be spend in a carelss manner, but if it took a bank bail out to avoid another Great Depression, then I think her little tea party isn't going to change things.
The tea party idea came from Rick Santelli of CNBC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k)when he was talking about people who are wanting to drink the water instead of carrying the water. The premise was how we as a nation are rewarding bad behavior.
Unfortunatly conservatives(republicans) have wrapped themselves in the american flag and are now saying they are there for the little guys. Though I have never meet this lady in the article, I find it surprising the one who is asking to organize this event is wanting to line up at the trough.
Back when this idea was floated I had thought of attending an event like this one, but after comments like the lady in this article and many other "conservatives" on tv and radio I believe I will not be attending. Besides, not to keen on having my picture taken by the very group that the bush admistration set up....homeland security.
These people have no credibility whatsoever. Where were the tea parties when Bush passed the multi-trillion dollar medicare Rx plan? Where were they when Bush doubled the national debt? Where were they when Bush started the TARP debacle?
IKE, yes Bush spent some money but Obama has taken it to another level. A Conservative will always have more credibility than a liberal.
So...are these folks also bring tea bag? Or something more appropriate? Piggy Banks?
I've got a "teabag" for them.
LOL
And ray_charles.....WTF?
No, Barack Obama has not already outspent the last two presidents. He's been in office for six months, and Bush launched two wars and a massive expansion of the federal government. That's just stupid to think that he's spent more in 6 months than Bush and Clinton spent in 16 years. Republicans can't think, the ones that can are too embarrassed to call themselves Republicans.
Actually, although fairly low profile here, there were Tea Parties all across the country drawing thousands of concerned citizens. They are concerned about the future of their children and the actions or inaction of our Congress over the past years. Snooty comments from our sleepy little monkey gallery, while sadly entertaining, are increasingly irrelevant. There are those posturing themselves to take full advantage of this groundswell of American action. Pity be the politician who fails to realize it.
FSM06 - stupid is what stupid does. Enjoying the view from the Ostrich gallery??