a little insight into the Tea Party Mind

[w8liftinglady]

http://teapartypatriots.org/mission.aspx



Mission Statement
The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.


Core Values
•Fiscal Responsibility
•Constitutionally Limited Government
•Free Markets


Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations of private business.


Our Philosophy
Tea Party Patriots, Inc. as an organization believes in the Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. is a non-partisan grassroots organization of individuals united by our core values derived from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. We recognize and support the strength of grassroots organization powered by activism and civic responsibility at a local level. We hold that the United States is a republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted "unalienable rights" by our Creator. Chiefly among these are the rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Tea Party Patriots stand with our founders, as heirs to the republic, to claim our rights and duties which preserve their legacy and our own. We hold, as did the founders, that there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual.

[Philly219]

1. Non-partison my a$$ n/t - where were they from 2001-2008?

[w8liftinglady]

3. my thoughts exactly...certainly NOT Iraq or Afghanistan...the war is NEVER mentioned.

[Winterblues]

2. Unless you are a Muslim of course.. or a Gay..or a Liberal..

We support the Constitution as long as it does not protect those we don't want protected....

[w8liftinglady]

4. or poor...or a minority...maybe a Catholic...wait a minute..most of us ARE poor.

did they USE us?

[Warpy]

7. That's where their state's rights come in

They want the majority of any state to be able to oppress all minorities--eventually to the point of owning them again, I guess, and certainly being able to declare some of them ungodly enough to murder them when they committed no real crime.

It's also telling that they mentioned free markets, not free people. That is completely counter to the original intent, which was to protect the people against the powerful.

[w8liftinglady]

8. well...they just THINK they own the free market...it's the other way around

[w8liftinglady]

9. edited...Joe Barton DOES own some of it.

...which is why he rode on the "Tea Party Express"

[markbark]

5. I agree...

To quote: "Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit of their own labor."
So Wall Street, who makes money that is the fruit of OTHER PEOPLE'S labour should have the ever lovin' sh!t taxed out of it, right?

Response from Teabaggers? <*crickets*>

What was that phrase again? Oh Yeah! "useful idiots"

--MAB

[EC]

6. This is just hog-wash propaganda from the upper

escholon of tp's....the regular people they rope into this don't give a shit about any of this...they just want to complain...

[uppityperson]

10. My take, do I have this right?

Fiscal Responsibility: My money is mine and I didn't care about high taxation while the beer drinkin' white dood was prez. That uppity talkin'muslin is just plain tryin' to cheat us all!

Constitutionally Limited Government: We employ mind readers and time travelers so believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. As the government is of the people, by the people and for the people, it should let the fuckin' people do what they want.

Free Markets: Like Community Property states, what is mine is mine and half of what is yours is mine too.


Our Philosophy
God, guts and guns, set America Free.
At the sake of Liberty, let's keep all three.
We're here now, want it all and damn anyone tryin' to stop us. Yeehaw!!!!!!!!!!

[Urban Prairie]

11. "oppose government intervention into the operations of private business"

So if they or a member of their family becomes ill, is injured, and/or perishes directly or indirectly due to the lack of regulations or inspection of a product or service, the teabaggers should ALSO automatically lose the the right to sue the business(es) or government for damages. They should have to put their health and lives where their collective mouths are, and if I was a lawyer for a business that is being sued, I would want to investigate and discover whether or not the person or persons are indeed member(s) of the Tea Party.