On the Mall after the liberal "One Nation" rally.
On the Mall after Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally.
Still, I wouldn't underestimate this for the simple reason that it may be used by the PTB for who knows what purposes??
After all, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
All this needs to do is turn violent, especially in a couple of different cities.
And I think it's going to happen.
There have been arrests at Tea Party events but they were of people assaulting Tea Partyers.
On the Mall after the liberal "One Nation" rally.
On the Mall after Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally.
Karl Denninger says this
•Prosecute the banksters.
•Your kids (and those not yet born!) are being told they’ll have to bail out the crooks.
•The “99%” are against those robbing the nation.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=195248
If the so-called “Tea Party” is going to mean anything at all then it has to get in the middle of this debate and protest movement right now and amplify the voice that represents common ground.
There’s a lot of that common ground. The messages we the people must send are:
•Stop the looting and start prosecuting. Not protesters, banksters. Right now. Fraudclosure, fraudulent lending practices, fraudulent securitization, fraudulent accounting here and abroad. It all must end right now with prosecution both for past and forwardly-committed financial scam sins.
•We will not pay for the bailouts and handouts. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. Nor will our children and those not yet born. We will withdraw consent through our cessation of taxable work product if the government refuses to meet this demand and claw back every nickel of the transfers it already made. That response is lawful and is, in fact, exactly what happened in Egypt. We will bring it here.
•We are the 99%. Yes, some of us are liberal and some of us are conservative on social issues. On this issue - the rule of law - we are united and we stand as one. This crap stops right now; we’ll fight about the other issues later.
•There is a process for unpayable debts and it’s constitutional. It’s called bankruptcy and it must be available to all with unpayable debts. Period. This means medical debt, it means student loans and it means mortgages. All debts. If you want a demand that will collapse the bankster BS game, that’s the one. You shouldn’t get off if you borrowed foolishly but neither should the lender who lent you money they either knew or should have known you couldn’t repay. No bailouts and no handouts on either side of the ledger.
•We know that pulling the deficit spending and “supports” from under the banksters and housing will cause an economic contraction worse than the 1930s. We know the pension funds are levered up with bank debt that must be haircut severely and that stock prices will fall precipitously if financial institutions are forced to tell the truth and “easy credit” is removed. WE NOT ONLY KNOW THIS, WE ACCEPT IT AND DEMAND THAT IT HAPPEN RIGHT NOW ANYWAY. Why? Because we are Americans. We make mistakes. We accept the possibility of bankruptcy for ourselves when we make mistakes but we demand that the jackass on the other side of the desk gets the same punishment for making a bad loan we get for taking one out. We want to buy houses when they’re cheap just like we want to buy DVD players when they’re cheap. We want American industry to provide jobs, not jobs for Chinese who were tending rice-paddies with the “profits” flowing to executives while Americans go jobless on the dole. We accept that realignment and re-industrialization of America will be painful but the fact remains that wealth disparity that comes from ripping people off is bad while wealth disparity that comes from being inventive and industrious is good — the latter is how we make progress and the latter are the people who we want to have the money to hire us, not the former!
•We demand that the “cheap money” policies, which in fact are really nothing more than bailouts and handouts across the board along with protectionism for the bankster class and those who offshore jobs, end right now. This means no more negative real interest rates anywhere on the curve and a true zero inflation target with criminal penalty teeth in the law. We’re prepared to back this up with the sort of durable protest that we see in NYC and elsewhere and we will expand it as we’re able and as is required until the above demands are met.
•We demand tax reform that results in nobody getting a free ride and nobody having loopholes they can exploit. Whatever we do for a tax system the instructions must fit on one 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper and be presumptively correct under law when followed. Your “return”, if you have to file one, must fit on a postcard. Corporate taxation must be similarly simple and presumptive. We demand that the government bring in via taxes every dollar it wishes to spend in programs in the present tense, not borrowing from the future. We can and will have the debate over exactly what those services are in the public square, as we should, and render our opinions in the voting booth. We will not tolerate one more day of deficit spending. Period.
sounds good
I’m a 60s + year old Tea Party fart who has served this country 40 + years ago and I’m thinking of joining the protesters. I don’t see this demonstration as leftist at all. I see it as a REQUIREMENT to take back the USA from the thieves who have stolen it because they control our politicians.
It is going to take a million pissed off Americans on the street to get the attention of the political elite before anything is changed. I agree with Karl Denninger and many others in the TP. It somewhat outrages me to see how these banksters have trashed the economy, then were bailed out on our dime, then were given bonuses and tax cuts, and not one of them has paid the price for their criminal actions, but the rest of us have.
The Fed makes sure that their Wall Street cronies gets their bread buttered by keeping CDs and interest rates at near zero.
One other thing I read, Charlie Rangel showed up at the NY protest and was told to get out because he is part of the problem, not the solution.