Posted on 11/22/2010 12:50:45 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Today, Tea Party Nation, along with over 180 other Tea Party Groups, Leaders and Activists released a letter to the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.
Last week, GOProud, a non-Tea Party group, sent a letter to Senator McConnell and Speaker to be Boehner, claiming to speak for the Tea Party movement. It was signed by 16 people. We decided to send a letter that speaks for the mainstream of the Tea Party movement. This letter is going Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner today. It has been signed by over 180 Tea Party Groups, Leaders and Activists.
Here is the letter:
Dear Senator McConnell and Congressman Boehner,
Last Monday, a small group of non-Tea Party, non-conservatives, released a letter, trying to claim leadership of the Tea Party movement and purporting to tell you what the Tea Party movement wants.
We, the undersigned, are leaders of mainstream Tea Party groups. We are the people that helped get conservatives elected on November 2. While we do not speak for this movement as a whole, we are a large cross section of this movement and we want to tell you what this movement wants.
First, we want Obamacare defunded. There is no compromise on this issue and it is not negotiable. We do not want Obamacare lite. We do not want it “tinkered” with. We want it repealed. We realize the chance of Obamacare being repealed before 2013 are slim, but it can be defunded. That is the next best thing.
Second, we want serious reductions in spending. A spending cut is not simply a reduction in the amount of the increase. It is a reduction in spending. America cannot afford Washington’s spending sprees any more.
The question is where to start. Here is the answer. Let’s start by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse from the budget. Billions of dollars are wasted through programs that are unneeded, unnecessary and exist only to benefit special interests. Let’s go through the budget line by line and eliminate these programs.
We in the Tea Party are ready to help on this one. We know you have staffs. We have thousands of volunteers who are prepared to rip the budget apart and help you. All you have to do is ask us.
The left will whine about every spending cut, coming up with some story about how horrible it will be. Americans are very charitable but cannot stand the thought of their tax dollars being wasted. This is the proverbial low hanging fruit.
Third, we must dismantle the liberal-political complex. Liberal groups such as Acorn and Planned Parenthood receive millions of dollars in federal monies every year. This must stop. Most of the members of this movement would probably describe themselves as pro-life. Regardless, abortion is a multibillion-dollar business. Why is the government paying Planned Parenthood anything, much less almost $1 billion from 2002-2009?
Fourth, if the debt ceiling is to be raised, this is the last time. Uncle Sam’s credit card must be cut up. America cannot afford Obama/Pelosi/Reid’s spending spree. We urge you to raise the debt ceiling only if a spending reduction plan is in place prior to that time. We do not want to see the ceiling raised in exchange for a promise to cut spending later. We Americans now regard those promises as credible as those emails we get telling us we have won the lottery.
Fifth, taxes must be reduced. The Bush tax cuts must be extended for everyone, made permanent and the burden the government places on small businesses must be drastically reduced so that small businesses can grow and start hiring unemployed Americans.
Sixth, there can be no amnesty. America has always welcomed immigrants. Legal immigrants. We want you to oppose the DREAM act and any other effort for amnesty. In 1986, President Reagan agreed to amnesty, in exchange for the promise the border would be secured. We got amnesty then and twenty-five years later, the border is still not secured. This time, we have to insist the border be secured and illegal aliens leave and then reapply like everyone else. We need to change our immigration laws and require that before specialized workers are brought in, there must be conclusive proof that no American is available to do that job. We also need to change our immigration policy so that the top criteria for someone immigrating to America is what they can do for America. The diversity immigration lottery must be eliminated.
Seventh, we want you to fight the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The policy has worked well for the last fifteen years. There is no reason to change. While there are many ways to debate an issue, sometimes you can judge the validity of a proposal by who supports it. Various radical leftist groups such as Code Pink support the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. These groups have one goal. They want to weaken the United States Military. If these groups think this is a good idea, that is a pretty good indication, it is not.
We, the members of the mainstream Tea Party movement have a lot of expectations for you in this Congress. We realize the limitations you face. But we also realize the tools you have at your disposal. America is a conservative country. We expect conservative leadership from our country. The Republican Party had its head handed to it in 2006 and 2008 because it departed from its conservative base. Now is your chance to return to your roots and govern, as we the people want you to.
We are here with you, we are here supporting you and we have our eyes on you. Do not disappoint us.
Sincerely,
November, 2010
Exactly, the tea party has no leader. I don’t trust anyone that claims to speak on my behalf. I support the tea party because I believe we need a smaller, less intrusive government that spends less and taxes less.
I have a lot of other beliefs that don’t necessarily fall under the tea party banner, and I am fine with that. The more items we append to the tea party, the smaller it becomes.
On the other hand, sometimes more really means more. If you wish to lose up to one third of the Reagan Coalition, go ahead and welcome GOP Proud homos and Planned Parenthood abortionists into the Tea Party.
The very first act after repealing Obamaocare should be to cut the budget and federal government back to 2008 levels, and then start cutting the bloat, redundancy and unwanted excess. Anything remaining from bailout and stimulus thefts will be wiped off the books. I would say paid back, but it is really borrowed money that doesn’t exist until it is made and squandered, so just wipe it off. Reign in the fed’s printing press. Shut down any and all money that goes to finance illegal immigration, including social services funding, funding for sanctuary cities, federal funds that go to universities that encourage illegal immigration by their tuition policies, and funding to public schools who use illegal immigration to bloat their enrollments and get more tax dollars. Also cut all funding for contracts, including grant money, that is used by employers to hire illegals. Give no funding or grant money to any organizations that support or promote abortion in any way. Find some agencies we don’t need, including branches of agencies we don’t need, and eliminate them, at least one a year for four years, after all of Obamao’s additions have been cut. Reduce the salaries of federal employees back to 2005 levels, if not more, and automatically cut the federal workforce down to what it was in 2008, before looking for substantial cuts. Open up our energy resources and exploration. Any states that refuse to allow energy resources to be utilized should lose federal funding. Give no further grant money to support the global warming agenda.
These are a few of my suggestions. I have many more.
Thank you... this is really what the Tea Movement is about.
If the nation is bankrupt, we have no choice.
But of course, step one in our recovery act should include impeaching Obama for gross incompetence.
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Sorry, let me refine my prior post, #27.
There are other mandatory programs that we could cut besides Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We can find $619B in savings if we immediately cut these programs: Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation, Child Nutrition and Tax Credits, Supplemental Security for the Disabled and Student Loans.
So with $500B in discretioary spending, $135B in stimulus, and another $620B above, we can get close to balanced.
If you want the Tea Party to be an actual political party, then no matter how you slice it it will be an act of subtraction.
However, if the Tea Party is more conceptual, then its proper role is to promote ideas and legislation which shrinks government, reduces spending, and expands freedom. When those ideas are forwarded in congress, I will be happy if they pass, whether some of the votes come from homosexual baby killers or not. Does that mean I’d vote for a pro-abortion candidate? Hell no! I would not, regardless of how many spending cuts they support.
Who are the signers?
Well, sounds like Jimmy has the right idea on priorities. I repeat this remark from other posters for its importance: Cut down the salaries of federal employees. It takes money out of about everyone else’s to provide theirs, not to mention potentially also foreign debt. Incentive to get involved in the private sector also needs a degree of balance with the public in the form of a smaller salary gap.
bttt
Me like.
Where do I sign?
It’s not a party and shouldn’t be. It’s a coalition of citizens pushing for a return to constitutional government. Taxes are just one issue of many.
Right here.
GOProud doesn’t even hide the fact that it’s a homosexual militant activist group. Why else would they form a political pac based on mutual interest in sodomy? Why else would one of their first priorities during war time be to mandate open homosexuality in all military branches? These freaks are intent on weakening this nation in order to obsessively pursue their own perverted sexual fetish.
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