COME ONE –
COME ALL TO
THE TEA
PARTY ON APRIL 15!
April 13, 2009
From:
The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer Organizations
Contact: Susan Kniep,
President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone: 860-841-8032
NEWS ALERT: Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s administration says
corporation and sales tax hikes proposed by the General Assembly’s Democratic
majority would cost the state nearly 2,700 jobs annually for the next decade.
http://www.journalinquirer.com/articles/2009/04/13/page_one/doc49e354527b99f046040303.txt
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TELL YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS:
NO TAX ON HEATING FUELS
(Please refer to attached)
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THE FOLLOWING APRIL 15 PARTIES ARE PLANNED….
·
The Norwich tea party will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Howard T. Brown Memorial Park
on Chelsea Harbor Road,
roadrallyct@yahoo.com
·
Westerly/Pawcatuck
tea party will
be at noon Wednesday in Westerly at the Rhode Island Department
of Environmental Management's parking lot at 99 Main St.
· Hartford's tea party is at noon Wednesday on
the north steps of the Capitol
Building, 210 Capitol Ave., hartfordteaparty@gmail.com
·
New Haven's tea party is 11 a.m. Wednesday on Long Wharf Drive on
the water, with parking available at Ikea, newhaventeaparty@gmail.com
· Greenwich Tax Day Tea Party is from 3
to 5 PM at Town Hall, Field Point
Road, Contact Matt Lechner
, mattlechner@optonline.net,
Connecticut Tea Party Contact
Person
Pamela Fowler ctteaparty2009@gmail.com
A Message from New Haven Tea Party Organizers: We need volunteers who can come early (9:30
a.m.) or stay late (until about 3 PM) for various essential tasks that need to
be carried out at the event. These volunteers will hang signs, help direct the
flow of folks to the event, carry messages, take down signs/clean up, etc. We
need several patriots to email back a.s.a.p. so we can get your official Tea
Party Organizer badges ready. If you can help, please email Corinne at winningathome@yahoo.com.
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Visit the “official” Tax Day Tea
Party Web site.
Great UTube Video …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK5hrKHrFzI
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Rollout for
TARP not exactly smooth - Six months after debut of bailout program, it faces big issues and
criticism from oversight groups. By Christina Rexrode, crexrode@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, Apr. 10, 2009 ….. TARP has struggled to clarify its
purpose and organize its logistics, according to the three government groups in
charge of overseeing the program. They say the Treasury Department, which administers
TARP, is tight-lipped on some important matters, such as how officials decide
which banks qualify for it. They complain that TARP doesn't have the staffing
to make sure banks are complying with the rules attached to the money. There's
even disagreement about how much money is actually left. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/655142.html
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This Isn't Working, Economics were
central to the outcome of the November elections. More to the
point, economic reform. Foremost among them, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Chairman of the National Economic Council Lawrence H. Summers.
It's not clear exactly what Obama wants, but Geithner and Summers want to
repair Wall Street, to resurrect the system that now cannibalizes the nation's
economy, not reform it. Geithner and Summers like the Wall Street system, and they want you to
like it, too. But even if you don't like it, they definitely want you pay for
it. Continued at … http://www.truthout.org/041309J
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Bailed-Out Banks Face Probe Over
Fee Hikes
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Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit
http://m.cnn.com/cnn/lt_ne/lt_ne/detail/283990;jsessionid=1B06FFD9456AC9CFADABDCC869ACDA71.live4ib
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America’s
20% Unemployment Rate
http://www.sandersresearch.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1403&Itemid=97
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More States Look to Raise Taxes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923448796803135.html?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd
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Cities Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/11fees.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
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If the Bank Bailout Fails, Will Anyone Get the Boot?
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By Peter
Roff, Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/
Former
Senior Political Writer, United Press International
Washington’s continued mishandling of the economic crisis has disquieted the
electorate. The bad economic numbers, the precipitous decline in the
stock market, the dramatic increase in government spending and the tax
increases lying just over the horizon paint a picture of an out-of-control
federal government grasping at straws in the search for solutions.
These are not, some of the organizers of individual events point out,
complicated events to stage . . . The key is that
there are many events occurring all day on the same day — this is what brings
them their sense of community and their political strength.
President Obama and his
economic team’s proposals can be summarized simply as more borrowing to pay for
more spending offset by more taxes. Even the president seems to
acknowledge this — “Listen, I will take responsibility,” he said in California. “For
everyone in D.C. scrambling how to blame someone else,” he said in a reported
deviation from his prepared remarks at a Town Hall meeting, “just go ahead and
talk to me.” But he continues, as he did when he blamed the Bush tax cuts
for the current economic troubles during last Thursday’s White House
Online Town
Hall forum, to pass the buck to the previous
administration.
The president and his advisers seem slow to comprehend
that occupants of the Oval Office get to claim credit for good news they had
nothing to do with and must accept the blame for bad news not their fault, as
was the case when American saddled President Bush and the Republicans with the
responsibility for last year’s near-doubling in the price of gasoline.
In the case of the current crisis the blame appears to
have been assigned almost totally to Obama, at least
by the thousands of U.S.
taxpayers attending near-spontaneous “tea parties” in protest of the Democrats
agenda of more taxes, increased spending, higher deficits and a surge of
borrowing to pay for it all. These mass protests, which have been
occurring in different spots almost weekly — 2,000 people in St. Louis, 3,000
people in Cincinnati, 6,000 people in Orlando — promise to culminate on Tax
Day, April 15, with at least 300 protests at sites large and small according to
the “official” Tax Day Tea
Party Web site.
As was the case with the Obama
campaign, the new “Tea Party Movement” is bringing people out to engage in
politics, many for the first time in their lives. And, again, as was the
case with the Obama presidential campaign, these
activists are making liberal use of new media technologies like Twitter and Facebook to find supporters and allies, to meet each other
and to establish a sense of community, a community of people who are being
economically oppressed by the new burdens being placed on them by the Democrats
who now are in complete control in Washington,. D.C.
These are not, some of the organizers of individual
events point out, complicated events to stage. They don’t need expensive
backdrops reminiscent of Greek temples behind them or the presence of all the
major broadcast and cable news networks (with attendant commentators explaining
deeper meanings) or thousands of people to achieve success. The Tea Party
movement, say national supporters, would be just as happy to have 10 people
outside a U.S. Post Office
on April 15, spreading their message, as they would be with 10,000 people on
the Las Vegas
Strip. The key, they say, is that there are many events occurring all day
on the same day — this is what brings them their sense of community and their
political strength.
Part of the genius of the idea rests in its historical
significance –everyone can relate to the story of how Sam Adams, Paul Revere
and others in the Sons of Liberty dressed as
American Indians in a nighttime shipboard raid to dump British tea into Boston Harbor.
But there is also genius in the simplicity of the idea itself, of using the tea
party as a metaphor to bring people together to speak out as one against the
ongoing effort to borrow, spend and tax the nation deeper into the economic
doldrums.
The “Tea Parties” augur the beginnings of a new political
movement, it is now clear, that may eventually exceed the power of MoveOn.org
and others of the new liberal pressure groups in their ability to influence the
votes of politicians in Washington
as well as state capitals in every region of the country. http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/04/03/roff_tea_parties/
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Local
folks plan "tea party" protests for tax day, By Kira
Goldenberg, The Day, April 13, 2009 http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=3ab94dd0-131c-436b-970e-a81143193f7c