Yesterday a neighboring community hosted a TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party to protest the bail outs, stimulus and government overspending. There was a speaker from the Texas Railroad Commission, a local business man who is a Cuban immigrant, and the local U.S. Representative. Folks arrived with signs of protest as well as tea bags to sign and send to Washington. I was also glad to see a media truck on hand as well. It was good to see the area filled with local folks who are wanting to send this message to Washington.
The idea of the tea bags is a symbol extrapolated from the Boston Tea Party. One speaker said this is important because it's not just our tea that is being taxed, it's our lives and our children's and grandchildren's lives. One young girl was carrying a stop sign that said "Stop spending my future income". The congressman loved that. He spoke to the girl and took her stop sign back to Washington with him.
A chest was loaded with all the tea bags and the congressman will be taking these back to Washington with him to express our local dissent over the stimulus and wasteful government spending. As the trunk was being carried to his truck, one young boy ran up urgently yelling "wait, wait!" His tea bag was not yet in the trunk and he knew his lone bag must also make it in the trunk. It was a very fitting end to the scene. This young boy may not realize what a symbol he and his last urgent addition to the trunk exhibited, but the way in which it was played out was a perfect ending to our local Tea Party.
2 comments:
I was glad to see that and that it was successful! Good for those folks! They have had one and are having another in Kalispell (about 100 miles from me) but the turnout was quite small for the first one and all they got from our politicians was more empty rhetoric about how they are all in favor of saving taxpayer money (and their actions prove that they aren't).
too bad the one in your area was not so good. there was another nearby last night that I really wanted to attend but could not. Our US Rep, Ron Paul was scheduled to speak. I guess living in a more "conservative" area of the country, we have more folks likely to attend this kind of thing. I was very glad my kids went w/ me. My daughter did not care, but my son is old enough and in tune enough to care that his future is being jeopardized.
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