Posted on 04/17/2009 8:42:18 AM PDT by PsyOp
Escondido Tea Party Tax Revolt, April 15th, 2009.
Escondido is located in North San Diego County in sunny Southern California. Today, however, it was windy and cold (for SoCal anyway), and most of us were wondering where all the Global Warming went… we would have welcomed some. Anyway, we had about 1,000 people show up, perhaps a bit more at the peak.
The Tea Party was scheduled for 5 to 7 pm outside the post office on Escondido Blvd. I arrived about 4:45pm at which time there were about 300+ folks mostly on the east side of the Blvd. where the Civic Center parking lot is located. By 6 pm both sides of the Blvd. between Washington Ave., and Valley Pkwy (about a quarter mile), were lined with people, 2 and 3 deep in most places. The event organizers had a van with sound system and played music and gave a few speeches.
One hot topic of conversation during the protest was the DHS memo to law-enforcement. We are mad that many of us are now considered potential domestic terrorists… especially those waving Gadsen Flags and those of us military veterans. Lots of vets present here today.
This guy had his old Chevy Impala painted up like an American flag. Stripes on this side, stars on the other. He made several passes down the Blvd. during the rally and got lots of cheers. There were lots of cars blowing horns as they drove past protesters, including city bus drivers and one truck leaving the post office. Lots of participants, it seems, never left their cars and just circled the block repeatedly with flags flying out the windows (sorry Al). But as you will notice, a slightly increased carbon foot-print was the only thing left behind. No trash. Not like the last Earth day at the National Mall where “green” protestors left the place looking like a dump.
Nuff’ said!
I heard on the radio before going to the protest that some reporters were calling these demonstrations "racist gatherings" of Obama haters. Not so. There were folks there of all ethnic persuasions. I have opted not to show their faces to protect them from possible reprisals from the Jesse Jackson camp. Common sense Patriots come in all shapes, sizes and colors!
I loved this kids sign. He was a pretty enthusiastic protester! Lots of kids there having fun and learning what it means to be an active patriot.
This guy has the right idea! A good tar and feathering might wake up the idiots in Washington.
Of course, we all heard the warnings about possible infiltrations by lefties that would act up and make us look bad. This little band, led by the masked kid on the right showed up and began shouting profanities at various imagined ACORN members in passing cars. They were told to knock it off and behave. Which they did. They later moved to the other end of the Blvd. Maybe they were there for the right reason, but why the one guy kept his face covered with a scarf is beyond me. Maybe he knows something we don’t about facial recognition software.
This guy is a Patriot’s Patriot! He was walking down the sidewalk passing out free slices of Pizza! I finally got my bailout! Hmmm… ham and pineapple… my favorite!
> On the news, I heard that these protests have been dismissed as failures. That no more than 250,000 showed up nationwide. That’s a bunch of bull. Here in Escondido we had 1,000. Temecula had about the same. Both Oceanside and Downtown San Diego had 5,000 plus, and there were at least 4 others Tea parties in the county I am aware of. San Diego county alone probably had from 15,000 to 20,000 people attend the various protests. California alone probably broke the quarter million number. If the turn out we had was repeated in other cities and states, the turn out was in the millions! 5 to 6 million easy. And guess what? No property damage. No arrests. Just peaceful protests.
The following video clips from the protest are unedited. There was no reporting of this event that I know of. There was one un-marked white “news” van that showed up, but it did not raise its broadcast tower and the cameraman (as far as I could tell) never got out of the van. I did not see anyone being interviewed, and our local news casts did not mention the Escondido Tea Party that I could find. So these vids, and those posted by others that were there, will be all anyone will see. And the mainstream media wonder why they are losing credibility with the people. Go figure!
Video of crowd from West- “Tea Party” song plays in background
Video of crowd from NW corner.
Video from East center – “Independence Day” plays on speakers.
Video From East side of street – “Bailout” song plays on speakers.
Video from West – “Proud to be an American” plays on speakers.
“Part of our trouble is that we have been self-indulgent. For decades, we have been voting ever-increasing levels of Government benefits, and now the bill has come due. We have been adding so many new programs that the size and the growth of the Federal budget has taken on a life of its own.” - President Gerald R. Ford, State of the Union Address, January 15, 1975.
“In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of “security.” We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if “the people” rule, all is well.” - Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative, 1960.
“Where is the politician who has not promised his constituents a fight to the death for lower taxes—and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? There are some the shoe does not fit, but I am afraid not many. Talk of tax reduction has thus come to have a hollow ring.” - Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative, 1960.
“As connected with the subject of revenue, we may with propriety consider that of economy. The money saved from one object, may be usefully applied to another; and there will be so much the les to be drawn from the pockets of the people.” - Alexander Hamilton, “Union With a View to Economy,” c. 1782.
“While a Treasury surplus is not the greatest evil, it is a serious evil. Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands upon our Treasury, with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now and then. Expenditure should always be made with economy and only upon public necessity. Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures is criminal.” - President Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1889.
“There is a spirit, which, like the father of evil, is constantly ‘walking to and fro about the earth, seeking whom it may devour;’ it is the peril of FALSE philanthropy. The persons whom it possess do not, indeed, throw themselves into the flames, but they are employed in lighting up the torches of discord throughout the community. Their first principle of action is to leave their own affairs, and neglect their own duties, to regulate the affairs and duties of others. Theirs is the task to feed the hungry, and clothe the naked, of other lands, while they thrust the naked, famished, and shivering begger from their own doors; to instruct the heathen, while their own children want the bread of life. When this spirit infuses itself into the bosom of a Statesman (if one so possessed can be called a statesman), it converts him at once into a visionary enthusiast. Then it is that he indulges in golden dreams of national greatness and prosperity. He discovers that ‘Liberty is power,’ and, not content with vast schemes of improvement at home, which it would bankrupt the treasury of the world to execute, he flies to foreign lands, to fulfill obligations to ‘the Human Race.’ .... It is the spirit of which the aspiring politician dexterously avails himself.” - Robert Young Hayne, speech in the U.S. Senate, January 26, 1830.
Sound like any politicians we know?
“The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin.” - Herbert Hoover, speech to the Senate, May 31, 1932.
“The management of the public revenue—that searching operation in all governments—is among the most delicate and important trusts in ours, and it will, of course, demand no inconsiderable share of my official solicitude. Under every aspect in which it can be considered it would appear that advantage must result from the observance of a strict and faithful economy. This I shall aim at the more anxiously both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of the national debt, the unnecessary duration of which is incompatible with real independence, and because it will counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy which a profuse expenditure of money by the Government is but too apt to engender.” - Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1829.
“Though I am an enemy to the using our credit but under absolute necessity, yet the possessing a good credit I consider as indispensable in the present system of carrying on war. The existence of a nation having no credit is always precarious.” - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.
“Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.” - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789.
“The accounts of the United States ought to be, and may be made, as simple as those of a common farmer, and capable of being understood by a common farmer.” - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1796.
Our current tax code runs 7 millions words and growing.
“I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for the multiplication of officers and salaries merely to make partisans, and for the increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.” - Thomas Jefferson, to Elbridge Gerry, 1799.
“If government is to retain the confidence of the People, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need or spent with maximum efficiency.” - John F. Kennedy, speech to the Economic Club of N.Y., Dec. 14, 1962.
“Social-program spending is spending done directly on the public rather than for the public’s benefit. Note the mental image evoked by the very word public: public school, public park, public health, public housing. To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradigm of social spending is the public rest room.” - P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores, 1991.
“Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn’t do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.” - P.J. O’Rourke, All The Trouble in The World, 1994.
“When an individual or a business has a lean year, they have to prune expenses and work for better days. When government has a deficit, it expects to solve that deficit by handing you a higher tax bill...” - Governor Ronald Reagan, Speech, Aug. 6, 1973.
“Americans have had their night on the town of social tinkering and social experimentation. They are now suffering the morning after, and they are hungry for some good old ham and eggs fiscal common sense.” - Governor Ronald Reagan, Speech, Aug. 9, 1973.
“Government does not produce revenue. It consumes it.” - Governor Ronald Reagan, Speech, Nov. 14, 1974.
“We can leave our children with an unrepayable massive debt and a shattered economy, or we can leave them liberty in a land where every individual has the opportunity to be whatever God intended us to be. All it takes is a little common sense and recognition of our own ability. Together we can forge a new beginning for America.” - Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation on the Economy, February 5, 1981.
“The deficit problem is a clear and present danger to the basic health of our Republic.” - Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address, January 25, 1983.
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