Maine group keeps demonstrations alive

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PORTLAND, Maine

A small group of people that came together early this month to express bitterness with the nation's corporate and political ways isn't giving up -- it's now into its second week of demonstrations in Portland.

Members of OccupyMaine show up at Monument Square each day to hold signs of protest and share their opinions on what they see as corporate greed, political corruption and the need for change. At night, more than 20 of them have been camping in a city park a few blocks away, their tents in plain sight to hundreds of motorists who pass by each day on busy Congress Street.

Everybody has a different take on what's important, but all agree it's time for Americans to come together, share ideas and find common ground, said Evan McVeigh, 26, a restaurant worker from Portland who's been camping out in support of the movement.

"There's no reason we should be flopping back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, going, `Well, the Democrats didn't work so let's vote for Bush, or that didn't work so let's vote for Obama,'" McVeigh said Tuesday at the makeshift campsite at Lincoln Park. "We need to realize people are people and if we actually sit down and rationally talk we can come to good ideas, strong ideas that reflect the needs and concerns of all parties and all philosophies involved." ...

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1. and stalling the govt. is good for us?

well for you that have 401 k's I'm sure by now you realize billions are changing hands every time the market drops. and who is losing it? surely not Boehner (boneya).or Oconnell(aka mitch the snitch). Well my wifes 401k has dropped 30,000 this year including the 7,000 her and her company put in it! And believe me at the end of the year the top 5% will have gobbled that up!
So make sure you expose the real reason the economy is down,the right has stalled or impaired every kind of job bill for the last 3 years!

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3. OH POOR SENILE MIKE

Now that the modern welfare state has run out of other peoples' money to tap for its unsustainable entitlements, citizens must choose a direction - either to shrink government or to expand it. The tax burden built into fiscal policy is hobbling the economy and animating Tea Partiers. If the welfare state is to survive, it's going to need a lot more police power to collect taxes.

Either unprecedented taxes (and, necessarily, greater government power) must fall on middle-class producers - or - government must shrink if the economy is to expand and employment to pick up.

It's no longer possible to keep the old system on life support by extending and pretending. The choices have become clear. That's why the Left is sounding desperate these days. "Retro Red" is today's hot color.

THE ABOVE WAS WRITTEN BY A KNOW ALL THINGS PERSON WHO PROBABLY IS COMPELETLY UNAWARE THAT THE TEA PARTY LEADER TO BRING IT TO PUBLIC NOTICE WAS NONE OTHER THAN THE INFAMOUS "DICK ARMEY"
THE SERGANT OF ARMS FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION! HE RESIGNED TO TAKE OVER THIS MOVEMENT,HE COMES FROM TEXASS! NUFF SAID.
BIG MONEY FROM THE RIGHT HAS FUNDED THE TEA PARTY TO BE USED AS A TOOL TO CONTROL OUR GOVERNMENT.(AND YA THINK IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULL)
STRANGE YOU CAN'T LINK KOCH BROTHERS AND OTHER OIL MAGGOTS TO THIS BUT WITH A LITTLE EFFORT YOU CAN SEE THEIR DONATIONS INTO OTHER ACCOUNTS THAT FUNNEL MONEY TO THE TEA PARTY.

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4. A LITTLE REF.

Dick Armey's 'tea party' history is a strange brew

Former House majority leader Dick Armey, holding forth on the socialist settlement at Jamestown. (Gerald Herbert/associated Press) Network NewsX Profile

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Dick Armey is intellectually versatile: The former leader of House Republicans went from being a rainmaker for a Washington lobbying firm to being the unofficial leader of the anti-Washington "tea party" movement.

But his latest avocation, historian of early America, may be his most intriguing role yet. As head of FreedomWorks, the group that helps to fund and coordinate tea party activists, Armey went to the National Press Club on Monday afternoon in advance of Tuesday's tea party protest in Washington, to present some of his historical findings.

"Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow," Armey reported in his luncheon address.

Who knew they had socialists in 1607?

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5. HERE'S MORE

The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
By FRANK RICH
Published: August 28, 2010
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DiggRedditTumblrPermalink.ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier.

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Vive la révolution!

There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. But even those carrying the Kochs’ banner may not know who these brothers are.

AS YOU CAN SEE YOU CAN GET STUPID TO FOLLOW STUPID! HITLER DID!

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2. ALWAYS CHECK THE OPPOSITION

I COPIED THIS OFF SO YOU COULD SEE HOW A SIMPLETON THINKS.

These people are channeling Obama's mantra that the rich have to pay their "fair share", which is just a distraction from Obama's failure to create jobs.Just another blame game- Blame the rich- and the word "jobs" isn't even a part of the lexicon. Kind of a joke that this minority audaciously claims to represent 99% of the people- and "globally" no less. These people are completely clueless but doing just what Obama and Soros want them to be doing- but a pretty meager turnout for 99% of the population.

COMMON SENSE SAYS IF YOU MAKE 90% OF THE MONEY YOU SHOULD PAY 90% OF THE TAXES NOT 70%!
OF COURSE MOST OF THESE PEOPLE THINK THAT BEING IN BUSINESS PLACES THEM ABOVE THE LAW!
A PERFECT EXAMPLE IS THE OIL INDUSTRY AND THEIR HUGE PROFITS WHICH THEY PAY VERY LITTLE TAXES ON!

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6. what needs to be done

First of all this movement can and should exceed the tea party. they need to organize and get behind political candidates that will stop the grid lock we have in washington. Get rid of the politicians who have stalled the economy by voting against everything that would benefit the people and this country. and start by getting rid of Cantor,boehner,O'Connell.
vote in independents and democrats to break the hold that big money has over the right.
The movement is good,just focus on reaching your goals!
In such a short time period and with little financial support you have exceeded what the tea party had done in this short period of time with large financial input!