Denver Tea Party

The Denver Tea Party was very well attended, estimates of 5000 people.

It is also painfully obvious that no one knows how to frame this.

The GOP think we are for them but since they are spending like wild we lump them into the bad government group.

The media think we are against taxes and are wondering why since taxes haven't gone up. Yet. We are not total sheep and are looking into the future and trying to do something while we can still do something about it. Spending is completely out of control Obama and Congress (BOTH sides) have spend more in the last 60 days as all the other presidents and congresses combined (that goes from George Bush to George Washington)

Some people are wondering where we were when Bush was spending, we've been emailing, calling and mailing. That didn't work and now with spending accelerating and on one seems to be listening, it is time to take to the streets.

It isn't about Obama because Bush started it. It isn't about the Democrats in Congress as the Republicans started it there too. It isn't even about the spending. It is about a government that has stopped listening to the people. 53% of the 57% ( or about a quarter ) of the people who are eligible to vote voted for change. I somehow don't thing more of the same, only more counts as change.

In simple terms. We owe $12n, we make $13n. That doesn't leave much for rent, car, food, gas and clothes. Stacking on more spending isn't going to work. Putting the Visa on the MasterCard (what the Fed and Treasury did a couple of weeks ago) and continuing to spending also doesn't work either. Getting loans from the payday loan shop (China) doesn't work so well either.

Anyone who is planning for a future further then a week away is concerned and is doing something. Food storage: check, garden: check, home defense: check, getting out of the stock market: better late then never. Tea Party: Oh yeah.

The liberals are wondering where the money is coming from because we have to be doing it just like they do and need a big sponsor. We don't need big money when you have a lot of little money.

They may also want to take a deeper look at the people there today. Lots of middle aged white people, mostly couples. We are people with something on the line here: homes, children, good jobs. Not like college students racking up student loan debt.

Oh, by the way, the http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html is not a subversive document, that would be the Declaration of Independence.

Further First Amendment Attacks

The Founders knew they needed a moral people to maintain and defend freedom. They didn't want to offend anyone so they talked broadly about the God of Nature. But now people are acting as if freedom of religion should be freedom from religion. And that the establishment clause that was to prevent a pope-king from getting in control of the country's religion has turned into a messiah-president and the disestablishment of religion.

The general ridicule of religion in the main stream media (MSM) has been going on for some time has appeared to have weakened church attendance.

Recently the attacks on religion and morality have been kicked up a notch with same-sex marriage and with Connecticut preposing legislation to take control of the Catholic church's finances, and if they control the money they control the whole thing, duh.

So what happens instead of your inalienable rights coming from God, your provisional rights come from the State, who can alter or revoke them at any time. Suddenly you are Lando dealing with Vader on Bespin.

The communist countries tried to replace religion with the State and it didn't work out so well. They finally fell and fell hard over the course of less then a week.

The Soviet Union was poor, and not because of their lack of natural resources (they have huge reserves) or the lack of intellectual talent (their computer scientists were able to figure out and program stolen computers that often arrived without manuals, have you tried running a command line interface lately?). Obviously they had a problem with their economies and a lack of basic freedom was it.

It is interesting to realize that communist countries only had one primary city that concentrated most everything except the really nasty industries. In Soviet Russia the Government, Money and Innovation were all concentrated in Moscow, in the capitalist countries they tend to be in widely separated cities. And they both happened that way because that is how they developed.

I remember in Germany they had a Religion tax, that they used to run the state religion. Charitable giving was pretty low because it was perceived that the government was taking money for religious reasons, which would use it for charity. It did work out that way. State Religion overhead for some reason tends to run pretty high. It was like any other bureaucracy it existed to sustain and grow itself and kept the charitable giving to the minimum necessary to keep it in the news and the appearance of doing something.

In a free society you cannot make people be religious, you shouldn't have to encourage or discourage it just stay out of the way, except when people start trampling on each others rights like killing them for leaving the religion. Obviously this treads on their right to life and the government can step in, but don't step in if someone wants to leave and does.