In a grass root effort to let Congress and the White House know how many Americans feel, thousands gathered to protest wasteful spending at an event called the Cincinnati Tea Party.
People did not send Obama to the White House or Congress to the House to waste our money. Stop the madness! The people will get louder, and the crowds bigger as the wastefulness of this spending bill is unveiled.
This is not stimulus; it's spending. Who ever heard of spending money as a way to create wealth. This is not a matter of one party against another. This is America and about Americans. We are tired of this recession, and fearful for our futures. The Cincinnati Tea Party is but a start.
Protests will continue until Congress and the president listen to the people not to the lobbies.
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If everyone's going to protest wasting money by having tea parties: shouldn't they be brewing the tea for the homeless or something?
Well, at least the Post Office and tea sellers will make a nice chunk of change before this is all over.
I think every politician in Washington would agree with this basic premise! But everyone want the cuts in spending made where they will not personally be effected but everyone else will be.
As an idea for you to exercise that great mind you have, write another article stating just which wasteful spending you are referencing and just why it is wasteful. Might not get as much agreement but it would be much more significant.
No one claims even for a minute that spending created wealth so wherever you heard that is in error. It does not! However, spending may well create jobs and we certainly have a need for them right now. Just ask any unemployed person.
I totally agree with your premise, no wasteful spending! And I'm sure most Americans would agree with that as well.
Most of the people there agreed we need to stop the socialist/communist movement in this country, and get a stronger free market again, as well as work on capitalism. We had Republicans, Democrats, and even a few from the Greens Party there in support of it.
Carol... I agree that the more people are finding out about what is in these bills, the unhappier they are becoming. I know for me I was disappointed.
While many projects are "worthy" of funding, NOW was not the time to address ALL of them. It amazes me that government doesn't understand basic economic principles... if you can't afford it, don't buy it!
After Obama's promised line item review of government spending, after the review on where the bailout monies went, after the housing market is stabilized, after we have a solid plan to reduce our deficit... that's when we should be focusing on the extras!
Here are some points that you use.
1) Promote growth in the most active areas of business. Namely here small to medium businesses have the best growth and economic movement. This can be done by tax relief which causes no actual spending of money, but the growth from taxes of working people will increase the intake.
2) reduce spending on pet programs, and outside aid until we get our own economy back up.
3) Reduce Government spenditure, like wages, to save all money you can.
4) Give incentives to big companies and medium companies to bring back outsourced jobs into the Country.
5) NO BAILOUTS
These are but a few you can do with very limited spending if any, and would produce a much higher effect than what Obama is doing now.
Bryan, no you don't have to spend, you have to invest wisely, and that does not mean always spending.
In order for the above sentence to be accurately applied to this situation, you need to put in the missing key words.
It should read: Who ever heard of government spending money as a way to create private sector wealth.
Of course, once you add in those qualifying words the sentence makes much more sense.
And the answer is: Many people have, because when government spends money it spends it into the private sector.