This week I received a notice of a Tea Party event being held on Friday night, here in Wake Forest, NC. The location was to be only a block from my home at an old historic home now hired out for events. How could I not go? I walked down Friday evening for a chance to see what a Tea Party crowd was actually like, and to meet the congressional candidate, Bill Randall.
I must say I was impressed by the crowd and the candidate. Average age was probably about my age, early 60's. It seemed to me that there were as many younger than me, as there were older. I would estimate the racial mix at about 90% white and 10% black. The crowd was very friendly and very well behaved. I saw no sign nor heard anything said that would have been offensive to anyone. The meeting began with saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, followed by singing the national anthem, and then a prayer. This set the tone of the meeting.
Curtis Wright, radio show host from Wilmington was the M.C. of the evening and did a great job. But the highlight of the evening was hearing from the candidate, Bill Randall. What a fine, conservative, sincere man! We also met his wife, and I must say the two of them set an example of love and family caring.
I left the meeting feeling much more positive about the possibility of conservatism leading this country.
In Wake County North Carolina, the elected school board is being attacked with legal action by the NAACP. Apparently, the NAACP would rather see education money spent on a bus fleet and lawyers rather than educating their underachieving children.
The NAACP uses school children similar to the way Arabs use the Palestinians, to achieve a social/political agenda, with no sincere concern for the future of the people they claim to help.
End all Federal grants, stimulus money, all federal funding of schools, all federal funding of any local or state programs. Then cut federal taxes. If local areas still want the programs, let them vote locally to increase taxes to pay for them. I'm guessing most will go away.
One day their leadership will be gone, and they will ask us, why did you let us suffer so long? Same thing for the suffering people of Darfur and many other places. The rest of the world has shirked a moral responsibility to get rid of these tyrannical leaders, but only the USA has ever had the backbone to do it. The rest of the world just does not give a damn. When they ask, we in the USA will tell them to take their question to the UN.
I am sick and tired of both parties blaming each other for deficit, debt and higher taxes. Both are to blame. We are suffering from decades of accumulated poor governance and oversight by Democrats and Republicans. They both promise to fix it at election time, then it is business as usual when elections are over. It is this that is driving the TEA Party movement.
Questions of the day - were the 91,000 military documents leaked by someone on the left , or on the right? Do you think the White House will see that the person is identified and punished? Does this make you feel good about how our classified information is being guarded? You can probably guess what my answers would be.
This speech by Van Jones confirms he is still the communist he has always been.
He speaks of people losing their "dream homes". Many people mortgaged homes they dreamed about, rather than homes they could afford. He wants us to feel guilty when they lose them.
This speech focuses on redistribution of wealth, which he calls hope and change.
In Van Jones world of change only the left speaks "truth, and is beautiful". Any opposition is "lies, dishonest, and hate".
His "hope" is not everyone's hope, but only his hope is good. He speaks of putting people back to work, back together. But he wants to do it through wealth redistribution.
He says we have plenty of money and asks, "How are we going to spend it"? The truth is, the government is broke, and running on borrowed money. So, who's "plenty of money" does he want to spend?
He sees "little has been gained from our energy". Yet, energy built America. He believes we can run the country on solar and wind. He never mentions nuclear energy.
He believes cars are created by union assembly line workers. He believes they are the "smart" ones that create products.
He talks about a clean energy "tomorrow" as if we have something ready to replace oil and gas, and could shut them off "tomorrow". Again, no mention of nuclear.
He wants to convert farm land into energy land. No mention of nuclear, no mention of what this would do to the price of food.
When he talks about "bring us together" he means so I can hand my money to someone else. In his world "bring us together" means, take from me, give to you.
He says we must fist fight for the country he wants. He sees opposition to illegal immigration as anti immigrant. He refers to them as "new comers", ignoring the breaking of our laws. He sees unrestrained increase of diversity as the path to his change.
He complains about BP, and who doesn't? But he ignores that it was very much the failure of government regulators and overseers that allowed that disaster to occur. The recent wreck of our economy was very much rooted in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government backed buyers of 90% of America's mortgages that encouraged unrealistic mortgages on "dream homes."
Yet, Van Jones sees big government as the solution to everyone's problems.
Van Jones and the rest of his kind that Obama has always been surrounded by, are committed to change. What we have to ask is, do we actually want the changes they advocate?
