Boston Tea Party 2009

[Kelly]

Americans throw more than 40 tea parties
[FONT=Palatino,][SIZE=+1]Citizens answer Rick Santelli's call, unite for nationwide protest[/SIZE][/FONT]

Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=90055

This will be a peaceful rally to unite our voices and express the love that we have for our great nation and the principles it was founded on," states the Floridians Unite website. "We want to make our politicians hear loud and clear that we are tired of the bailouts, the wasteful Washington spending and the push towards the socialization of this country! We want less government! We want to decide where our hard-earned money goes instead of the elitist politicians in Washington taking it and using it to buy votes, doling it out to special interest groups and pork barrel projects! We want our constitutional rights preserved and protected, not trampled on!"
At the Pittsburgh, Pa., Tea Party on April 11, organizers are inviting people to help them reenact the Boston Tea Party of Dec. 16, 1773, by bringing one tea bag each to Point State Park with plans of actually tossing the tea into the Alleghany, Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
"Somebody in our government needs to finally pay attention," said Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck on his radio program last week. "It is what I've been talking about that was coming for a very long time, and that is disenfranchisement, which will turn into anger and then turn into God knows what."
CNBC analyst Rick Santelli is hoping those demonstrations will result in real change.
During the televised segment where Santelli revived the term "tea party," CNBC panelist Wilbur Ross, chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co., interjected, "Rick, I congratulate you on your new incarnation as a revolutionary leader."
"Somebody needs one," Santelli responded. "I'll tell you what, if you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson, what we're doing in this country now is making them roll over in their graves."

 

[Doomed_hero]

wow.....what a idiot. I mean first he calls wall street real america and then does this.

 

[Kelly]

I'm just shocked its being started by someone at CNBC, and not Fox....lmao

 

[BlackLantern]

this sounds stupid

 

[Kelly]

Nah, just people raising their voices....now the leader of this may be alittle hokey....

 

[BlackLantern]

I think an assault of an executive of one of these failing companies might get the message across a little better

 

[Kelly]

lol......maybe so.

 

[SuBe]

Symbolism like this is silly. "Let's do something!"

Ok, how about actually talking to people about a detailed plan that will better this country instead of something symbolic that can be interpreted a hundred different ways?

 

[Paradoxium]

Obama is pretty good at scapegoating wallstreet, he knows how to stroke the emotions and anger of the populist. In doing this, and wanting to help the financial recover, he is going to risk a backlash towards his administration. That is, the resentent towards wallstreet being redirected at the government for helping/bailing out wallstreet.

In fact, people in the Obama camp realize this now too (care of the New York Times).

The Obama administration is increasingly concerned about a populist backlash against banks and Wall Street, worried that anger at financial institutions could also end up being directed at Congress and the White House and could complicate President Obama’s agenda.

“We’ve got enormous problems that need to be addressed,” David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, said in an interview. “And it’s hard to address because there’s a lot of anger about the irresponsibility that led us to this point.”

“This has been welling up for a long time,” he said.

Mr. Obama’s aides said any surge of such a sentiment could complicate efforts to win Congressional approval for the additional bailout packages that Mr. Obama has signaled will be necessary to stabilize the banking system.

As it is, there have already been moves in Congress to limit compensation to executives at banks and Wall Street firms that are receiving government help to survive.

Beyond that, a shifting political mood challenges Mr. Obama’s political skills, as he seeks to acknowledge the anger without becoming a target of it. A central question for Mr. Obama is whether his cool style — “in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger,” he said in his address to Congress last month — will prove effective when the country may be feeling more emotional.

Reap what you sow bastards. t:

 

[Paradoxium]

Symbolism like this is silly. "Let's do something!"

Ok, how about actually talking to people about a detailed plan that will better this country instead of something symbolic that can be interpreted a hundred different ways?

I've concluded months earlier, the only way anything will change is if everything collapses first. I don't think protesting will work (much). Legal Galting is probably more meaningful since it would hurt their "tax revenue".

 

[SuBe]

I've concluded months earlier, the only way anything will change is if everything collapses first. I don't think protesting will work (much). Legal Galting is probably more meaningful since it would hurt their "tax revenue".

Yeah, I remember talking to you about that, unfortunately I don't have the capital for a proper Galting. I will continue to Push the FairTax until hopefully that happens before a Galting. *crosses fingers*

 

[Timstuff]

I'd rather we just make tea using water from New York's East River, and then force our politicians in Washington to drink a cup of it for every dollar they waste.

 

[Ugfugly]

I've concluded months earlier, the only way anything will change is if everything collapses first. I don't think protesting will work (much). Legal Galting is probably more meaningful since it would hurt their "tax revenue".

Protesting may not work much but its the only way for people to get their voice across and be heard.

Us discussing it on messageboards don't really go far, fun as it is

 

[Timstuff]

Protesting may not work much but its the only way for people to get their voice across and be heard.

Us discussing it on messageboards don't really go far, fun as it is

Wait, you mean all these years, the government hasn't been reading my blog?

 

[Kelly]

Protesting may not work much but its the only way for people to get their voice across and be heard.

Us discussing it on messageboards don't really go far, fun as it is

I disagree, I think any dialogue is good......

Even though we get into some pretty heavy discussion around here, I think its needed.....and its certainly a start.

These boards, along with blogs are read FAR MORE than newspapers, magazines, and TV news....FAAAAAR MORE....so I think they do more than you think in getting messages out there. I mean this that we are discussing right now, is pretty much on blogs only being discussed.

And whether people agree or disagree with it, I think it is newsworthy, yet the mainstream media hasn't even mentioned it. You have millions of people voicing their opinions about government policy, and the mainstream media doesn't even cover it. Come on, we may think its kind of silly, but its certainly newsworthy.