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Top 10 Reasons Why Both Parties Are in Tea Party Hot Water – #5

by | 7:30 am, February 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

This is Day 6 of a 10-part installment.

5.  Both Parties Have Strayed from American Economic Principles

Whatever else you can say about the Tea Party, it is a uniquely American movement.  WE ARE AMERICANS!  Tea Partiers do want to be labelled Democrats, Republicans, North Americans, Progressives, Europeans, Socialists, South Americans, Communists, Asians, Africans or hyphenated anything – and especially not serfs or indentured servants!

We believe in a free market economy, controlled and driven by the market and the people, not by the government.  Enough of our fellow citizens (over 75% total including 64% of Democrats) agree with us on this one that we could pass a Constitutional amendment if we joined forces.    

With the way the Feds are spending and printing money, American workers and taxpayers will become in essence indentured servants for generations with China, Japan and other foreign powers holding our lifetime work contracts.  The current out-of-control spending, started by a Republican administration and kicked into “warp speed” by the current Democrat administration and Democrat-majority Congress, is destructive and just plain un-American.  Government’s taking more control of substantial chunks of the private sector is killing what is left of our free market ecomony and also is at odds with our American principles.

Both parties have strayed from American free market principles, albeit one more than the other.  But, in their lust for power and control over We the People, many of our political leaders in DC and our state capitols, have imposed so many rules, regulations and taxes on almost everything that we have not seen a completely free market in decades.  This dismantling of our American economic structure typically has been a slow incremental ” onclick=”return TrackClick(” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”" onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”,” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”)”progression” onclick=”return TrackClick(” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”" onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”,” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B” onclick=”return TrackClick(”,’%2F%2Fvideo.foxnews.com%2F%26quot%3B%26gt%3Bvideo.foxnews.com%26lt%3B%2Fa%26gt%3B%26lt%3B%2Fnoscript%26gt%3B’)”)” away from the free market system so most people did not really notice how far we strayed from our successful, prosperous roots until the bailouts in the fall of 2008 began our awakening and the percolation of the Tea Party movement.

Almost 60% of voters (including I venture to say almost everyone in the Tea Party) believe that government is the problem with our economy.  According Rassmussen Reports - Although the Republican Party in Washington veered away from Reagan’s approach in the years since the 40th president left office, 83% of Republican voters around the country still agree with him. So do 40% of Democrats and 60% of those not affiliated with either major party…In a corollary to Reagan’s assessment of government, most voters believe that no matter how bad things are, Congress could always make them worse.

So, if government is not the answer, who/what are?  We the People armed with the Constitution, free market principles and solutions.  Tea Partiers demand that both parties and all government officials go back to following the U. S. Constitution along with the principles and values upon which it was based.  Using these as our common basis, we can work together to solve most of the major problems we face as a nation, including getting  our free market economy back and eventually working again.

Tomorrow we’ll take a look at reason #4 in our countdown of the Top 10 Reasons Why Both Parties Are in Tea Party Hot Water.  Until then, remember to keep turning up the heat on all of those tea pots out there.

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  1.   james
      February 16th, 2010 @ 10:28 am

    The third sentence of this essay reads;

    “Tea Partiers do want to be labelled Democrats, Republicans, North Americans, Progressives, Europeans, Socialists, South Americans, Communists, Asians, Africans or hyphenated anything – and especially not serfs or indentured servants!”

    Shouldn’t that read, “Tea Partiers do [not]want to be labelled Democrats, Republicans, …”?

    If I am correct, wouldn’t it be a good idea to correct this error?

  2.   NancyR
      February 16th, 2010 @ 11:02 am

    Another major contribution to the increasing size of government is the people themselves. The people keep asking, expecting the government to solve problems the govt has no business solving.

    The housing crash is a great ex of this: govt program forcing banks to overlook qualifications, suppressed int rates, inflated home prices, people gambing on home values and then when the crashes happens demanding that the govt make them whole.

    Welfare, Unemployment, Student loans, cash for clunkers, EIC,Medicare, Social Sec all suck money out of the economy and out of our pockets. Can’t pay for something – no worry there is bound to be a govt program to pay for you.

    Washington and both parties will not be fixed until We the People look in the mirror & accept responsibiity for creating the beast of Government with an unquenchable desire to consume all in its path.

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