Ben Carson, M.D. - America the Beautiful - 7

Flag Day - 2013

 

The New Tea Party: DIRECTing America Today:

The old Tea Party would probably never have been birthed if large segments of the colonial population had not felt oppressed and betrayed by the very government that was supposed to be taking care of their needs. If one were to make an acrostic of the first letters of each of these phases - denial, ignore, resistance, exempt, conforming, and transformation one gets the word DIRECT, and that is what basically happened....

 

Now let's look at the same DIRECT acrostic with respect to the new Tea Party. Late in 2008 and early 2009, a number of things happened that caused great concern to a large number of Americans. Among these were the passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the bailout of several major financial agencies, and talk about dramatic reform of the nation's health care system. Scattered small protests about these things were seen around the nation, but the entrenched powers of government and most of the media denied the significance.

 

Then on February 19, 2009, a business news editor on CNBC by the name of Rick Santelli in a national broadcast from the floor of the Chicago Exchange severely criticized government plans to refinance "underwater mortgages," those mortgages whose values are less than the balance owed because of the collapse of the housing prices. Many of the derivative traders in the background applauded, and the hosts of the show were bewildered.

 

The video of Santelli's outburst went viral, with special emphasis on the part where he called for another tea party,... The entrenched political establishment and most of the media ignored how fast these protests were growing just as the British regarded the colonial protests during the American Revolution.... The passage of the new health care legislation in December of 2009, contrary to what the majority of Americans wanted, was like pouring gasoline on a fire, and it dramatically increased the strength of the Tea Party movement....

 

The attacks from much of the media, from several members of Obama's administration, and from the Democratic Party were relentless and mean-spirited.... During the 2010 midterm primaries, Tea Party membership had grown to the point that it was able to significantly influence the outcome of the primaries... It became increasingly clear that the Tea Party was not simply an arm of the Republican Party, but rather a significant force for real change. Its constituents recognized that both the Democrats and the Republicans were responsible for excessive spending, incessant pork barrel projects to benefit special constituent groups, and intrusion into private lives of citizens....

 

GEORGE H. KUBECK, IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH, CINOPS BE GONE, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

 

P.S. WITH EVERYTHING THAT HAS OCCURED WITHIN THE LAST FEW MONTHS IT WOULD BE WISE FOR TEA PARTY MEMBERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS TO JOIN LOCAL CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY GROUPS. THERE ARE SEVERAL IN ORANGE AND L.A. COUNTIES AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE.                                                                                                                    BUENA PARK, BARON KNIGHT, (714) 469-8623: FULLERTON, ZONIA TOWNSEND, (714) 525-9441: ANAHEIM, STEVEN SARKIS, (714) 894-7635: THIS ONE MEETS ON THE THIRD WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH AT MIMI'S RESTAURENT, CORNER EUCLID AND ROMNEY AVE. IN ANAHEIM AT 6:30 P.M. ALL ARE WELCOME.