Today millions of Americans are protesting out-of-control government spending and the inevitable confiscatory taxes that will follow. Main Stream Media coverage has been either non-existent or completely negative. Most of the network coverage referred to the Tea party protests as “teabagging” protests, a derogatory sexual reference. Funny? Not exactly objective journalism.
The good new is that Obama has accomplished something that his wife Michelle had claimed he would as President. He will not allow us to “go back to our lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed…”
“He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”
~Michelle Obama
The T.E.A. (Taxed enough already) Parties are a sign of political awakening. Thank you Barack.
Glen Reynolds has a great piece describing this:
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed “Smart Mobs” by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don’t know each other. ~online.wsj.com
