Comments on: Best of 2009: Tea Party sign of the times

By: happy2behere

happy2behere — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:46:17 +0000

Sign from the Denver Tea Party —
“We work hard so you don’t have to!” Wish I’d thought of it.

By: Asheville Tea Party

Asheville Tea Party — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:38:28 +0000

2010 Asheville Tea Party Resolutions…

2010 New Years Resolutions………

By: jangar

jangar — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:52:08 +0000

tbear44 said:
My favorite sign: Obama Bin Lyin

Ditto. It does recap the last 2 years quite well, but there are many more who lie and undermine the USA.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:17:27 +0000

Nice sign. Isn’t that the new mask of terrorism according to liberals?

By: starlightwoman

starlightwoman — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:27:29 +0000

On December 31st, 2009 at 10:54 am, DanMan said:
I also liked the one that said “I’m not with the party of no, I’m with the party of Hell No!”

That was my favorite!

By: Send_Me

Send_Me — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:14:16 +0000

These Tea Parties have potential, but only if the concept becomes a political entity. Unless it can strike fear into the Democratic and Republican parties by either (A) putting forth third-party candidates who can overcome “conservative” fears that any vote not for a Republican is therefore for a Democrat, or (B) striking fear into the Republican establishment that no longer are “conservative” voters mere sheep who will vote for anyone with the letter “R” next to his name, hence prodding the RNC to back more conservative candidates.
This all requires three things: (A) a renewed focus and intensity on Congressional and state elections by “conservatives”, (B) intelligent leaders of character and experience to step up and run for office, and (C) “conservative” voters to vote on the very principles they claim to espouse rather than maintaining the “conservative” status quo of voting for the least of two evils. You can’t win if you don’t risk losing.

By: tbear44

tbear44 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:12:54 +0000

My favorite sign: Obama Bin Lyin

By: corkie

corkie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:51:57 +0000

cheapseat,

You’re right. I had no idea that farmers were making such high margins on crops and products such as milk in this country and that the subsidies were making them all rich.

So are farmers making 70% or 85% gross margin on milk?

/sarc

But I certainly appreciated the anecdote about your hot rod uncle.

By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:42:30 +0000

A Slogan For 2010…

Found via Michelle Malkin, apparently from one of the summer tea parties based on the date of its initial appearance on the Interwebs — but definitely a timeless message with maximum relevancy.
……

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:40:04 +0000

on this crop subsidy, i have to agree with zz. we are in a situation where a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of premium gas. a bushel of corn and a bushel of soy beans are at all time high levels due to ethanol and exports. sugar, don’t even get me started on sugar. we pay “farmers” to produce milk we can’t possibly consume, so we turn it into cheese and give it away all over the world, we push milk on our kids through schools because we can’t get rid of it, and we feed grain crops to 1/4 of the world to get rid of the oversupply of those crops. and all this from only 2% – 3% of the population. these agribusinesses aren’t farmers any more than shell oil is a wildcatter. my uncle owns a large chunk of iowa row crop land and has never set foot on the property. he did build a $500k custom hot rod which won last years rod of the year award, and winters in phoenix where the tennis is good, and visits the worlds “spots” often. yes, he lists his occupation as a farmer.

By: ssnark

ssnark — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:28:57 +0000

On December 31st, 2009 at 1:50 pm, corkie said:

On December 31st, 2009 at 11:59 am, denver republican said:

Let the market decide.

This comment is stupid. The market doesn’t decide risk mitigation. The market wouldn’t decide to purchase public oil reserves. The market wouldn’t decide to fund a military. The market wouldn’t decide to keep near idle ship yard capacity on-line. Please let me know if anyone wants more examples of what the market wouldn’t decide.

I agree with Corkie. It might be nice if the market took such long term views or of the strategic value of excess capacity in certain industries. It doesn’t. This is where the role of government “to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare” comes into play rather than as perverted in recent history since FDR.
Government provides for contingency mitigation to assure that vital capacity for defense of this nation exists (it doesn’t anymore) Moreover, maintenance of strategic interior lines of communication and commerce (air, land and waterborne)are vital to the countries interest if it is to survive and thrive. Bridges and power generation should be part of this. Food surplus is vital to assuring that even if disaster strikes we will not suffer famine. All of these are far more vital to the countries interest and provide the means for mitigating national catastrophe than any social program that can be named say for the work of the CDC and PHS.

By: corkie

corkie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:50:37 +0000

On December 31st, 2009 at 11:59 am, denver republican said:

What no one has ever done is explain the link between food security and crop subsidies. (Because there isn’t one.

Actually, those demonstrating the food security “link” have made a much more convincing argument to me than those that claim no link exists.

Regardless of whether or not the link exists, it’s interesting that it’s often the first budget item liberals want to cut.

Let the market decide.

This comment is stupid. The market doesn’t decide risk mitigation. The market wouldn’t decide to purchase public oil reserves. The market wouldn’t decide to fund a military. The market wouldn’t decide to keep near idle ship yard capacity on-line. Please let me know if anyone wants more examples of what the market wouldn’t decide.

By: emjem24

emjem24 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:31:43 +0000

Here’s a message that shouldn’t be too hard for Congress and Federal government to understand:

If You Only Had A Brain

…. from The Wizard of Oz.

You may have Ivy League educations, lobby dollars, and special interests in your pocket funding your permanent pay checks but that doesn’t mean you know what the HELL you’re doing.

I’d rather have regular Joes and Janes running the show, wanting to serve their country for the sake of service, not the self-serving political side-show it’s become.

By: dan708

dan708 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:22:46 +0000

I’d like to put my anti-government footprint on congress’ backside; trouble is, they are too numb (dumb?) to notice.

By: rambler

rambler — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:08 +0000

Every state need the ability to recall elected officials if those officials violate their oath to protect and defend the Constitution by passing unconstitutional legislation. No government employee should have more job security than the private sector. The inability to fire any employee leads to a decline in the productivity and efficiency of the entire unit. I saw this first hand when I worked for EPA.
The gov has gone way out of line by using the EPA to impose mandates on carbon so as to blackmail congress into passing legislation; using the Census Bureau to collect private info on citizens with the threat of fines; creating a huge agency to micro manage the healthcare and health insurance for every resident using the power of the IRS for enforcement. The gov needs to get out of all private sector businesses. Above all, the gov needs to stop spending, printing and borrowing money! Those responsible for violating the public and the best interest of the country need to be held accountable and some need to jailed for contributing to the financial collapse.