In Tea Parties We Trust
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For Democrats like Harry Reid, who called them “evil-mongers,” and Nancy Pelosi, who called them “un-American,” the NBC News poll must have hit like a sucker punch at a Georgetown wine-and-cheese.
The Tea Party movement, those folks rallying against spending last spring and Obamacare in the summer town halls, are viewed more favorably than the Democratic Party.
Forty-one percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, to 35 percent for Obama’s party. Only 24 percent view Tea Party activists unfavorably, while 45 percent hold a negative view of the Democrats.
While Tea Party types played a role in the GOP’s comeback — helping take down Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and turning a John McCain deficit of 6 points in the Old Dominion into a 17-point victory for Bob McDonnell — the movement is no subsidiary of the GOP. For it played a major role in routing liberal Republican “Dede” Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd and came within a point of electing a third-party conservative.
As Congressional elections are 10 months off, though primaries begin in the spring, where do Tea Party types find the battles to keep them in fighting trim? Copenhagen may have provided an answer.
While Obama came home with a nothing-burger, Hillary stole the show. Without authorization of Congress, she committed the United States to lead a campaign to transfer, beginning in 2020, $100 billion a year “to address climate change needs in developing countries.” The fund would start at $10 billion and grow by 1,000 percent in a decade.
The $100-billion-a-year global fund sprang from the fertile mind of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
By 2020, U.S. citizens, whose nation is careening toward default, will be borrowing tens of billions more every year from China, if Beijing is still willing to lend to us, so we can ship those tens of billions off to the sump holes of the Third World.
The arrogance of power here astonishes.
Not only does Hillary’s commitment represent a doubling of U.S. foreign aid, she declared at Copenhagen that climate change — known as global warming before a blizzard brought Obama winging home early — is “undeniable.”
Now, undeniably, there is climate change. But we call it spring, summer, fall and winter. As for global warming and cooling, that has been going on for millennia. Not so long ago, we exited what is known as the “little ice age.” Over the 20th century, the official rise in global temperature was seven-tenths of one degree Celsius.
People are wailing about the “hottest decade” in history. But who would have noticed if the Chicken Littles had not told us we are all burning up and we must act now to save the planet?
How do we save the planet? By giving them power and money.
Hillary’s hundred billion a year is just the tip of the iceberg, and this iceberg is not melting. We are at the beginning of the biggest con in history.
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency made an “endangerment finding” that carbon dioxide, the food of plants and trees, is a dangerous pollutant. Under the Clean Air Act of 1970, this gives EPA power to shut down the U.S. economy, though EPA head Lisa Jackson says the ruling will apply only to 10,000 utilities, refineries and large manufacturers that emit more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year.
Congress has done nothing to reverse this usurpation of power.
Strict enforcement of this finding would make America a pasture and guarantee China’s future as the first industrial power, the factory for mankind. What is the purpose of this preposterous EPA finding?
It is the EPA nightstick to club into line U.S. companies that are fighting the Gore-Kerry-Obama cap-and-trade bill stalled in the Senate, which represents another huge transfer of wealth and power from the private sector to Beltway bureaucrats.
What the Obamaites are saying to industrial America is: Back off your opposition to cap-and-trade, or the EPA shuts you down.
The Tea Party irregulars have it in their power to stop the New World Order crowd cold. All they need do is stop cap-and-trade in the Senate for 10 months, until November, and block Hillary’s $100 billion fund from ever seeing the light of day.
If the Tea Party activists can hold the line, they can, next fall, send Congress a message it will not soon forget about getting off this Acela to globalism and getting back to putting America first.
In Europe, democracy is dead. French and Dutch voted to kill the EU constitution. The EU rechristened it the Lisbon Treaty. The Irish voted no. They were forced to vote again. The British detest it, but Gordon Brown has denied them a vote.
The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope.
Patrick Buchanan is the author of the new book Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War,’ now available in paperback.
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Filed under: Politics
Some simple math:
Annual salary “divided by” 2,000 approximately equals salary per hour.
For example, if you make $2,000 per year, that is considered to be about $1 per hour. If you have a salary of $100,000 per year, then (100k/2k=50) you make about $50 per hour.
(This ignores benefits and taxation).
So at the federal minimum wage:
http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/index.htm
It costs ($7.25 x 2,000) $14,500, plus approximately $3,000 to $7,000 (depending on taxes and benefits). So, to hire a minimum-wage employee, ask what they can do for you that is worth about $20,000 minimum, per year.
If we assume about 330 million people are citizens of the US, then when the government spends 1 million dollars, each citizen spent about 1/3 of a penny.
When government spends a billion dollars, each citizen just spent about $3.
When government spends a Trillion dollars, each citizen just spent about $3,000.
Each Trillion of US Budget Deficit, costs your children or grandchildren $3,000.
For a realtime display, see:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
The problem for government is to detach the average citizen, both from how much government expenditures cost the individual citizen, but also how much of the debt is being passed to our children and grandchildren.
The 2 main tricks are:
#1 – tax “the rich”, so that big companies collect taxes in the form of higher prices to the consumer, and “citizens” have the illusion of having paid lower taxes
#2 – “hide where the money comes from”, as in stealing from Social Security to finance “pet projects” that keep incumbents in office, or, where BOTH PARTIES hide the “fine print” in major spending bills that benefit political friends of those who write the laws
For TEA PARTIES to become effective, they MUST become willing to JAIL politicians who have used their political offices to STEAL…. RETROACTIVELY!!!
And I would advocate a LIFE SENTENCE to any who have used their position in an ETHICS COMMITTEE to shelter wrongdoers, on a National Level (as the DEATH PENALTY is probably not practical).
“The West is disappearing into a New World Order, and against globalism, the Tea Party folks may represent our last best hope.” Yes, they are your last best hope – you’re screwed.
Barney – how about putting more than one sentence in a paragraph. The all caps aren’t cool either. You’re almost over the edge, man.
I fear that we are witnessing is the very beginning of what in the past history of the world, called tryanny.The glaring examples of which the hildabeast calling herself queen bee and sole determinate of our wealth is beyound arrogant, this is pure evil. For someone who claimes to be the smartest woman in this country, she sure lacks an understanding of our Constitution of which SHE SWORE to protect and defend. It will not be left undone either by the Patriots or the “tea-party” movement.
The laws of this land are applicable to all, including those in the position of power, no one is above the law, not even the pretender-n-theif. The problem we face today is there seems to be no one in the position of power to enforce the rule of law. I believe a case could be made, and should be made that this current CONgress is guilty of sedition and treason. They seem to be bent upon the destruction of this Nation by means of hook and crook through the Cloward-Piven strategy. This strategy is so obvious it makes a mockery of our laws. The only way for us out of this mess intentionally brought about by the Democrat party, Soro’s, et al is to issue warrents for their arrests and incarseration until they prove otherwise.
While the mid-term election is coming upon us, we must be remindful of the progressive’s theft of our treasury for strict political use against the citizens with our money’s.it’s being used to forment this change and hopey thing the pretender-n-theif speaks of, we must not forget his message to his minions of fundamentally changing this Nation.
He may have fooled 52% of the teet suckers of this nation but not all of us will take this change of our founding principles, values and morals lying down like the good sheeples of that 52% who are responsible for bringing this evil to our shores. Some of us adults must say no to their theft. They must be held accountable and serve their prison terms without any resemblence of mercy towards their acts.
Sgt. Z, that’s pure wing-nuttery. What’s going on with this post? Everyone is supposed to stay within the boundary set by Pat for out there-ness. Anybody further out has plenty of other places to go.
One thing which really irritates me in all this tea-party bashing is the insistence by some that these protests are somehow fake (i.e. astroturf vis a vis grassrots). I can say with certainty that the majority of these protesters haven’t been planted by the Republican Party; in fact, many feel the Republican Party has abandoned them. To claim the Republican Party is behind the tea-party phenomenon is to give that party way too much credit.
I think this is the wrong battle to pick as it reinforces the stereotype of conservatives as being anti science. OTOH if tea partiers want to oppose globalist trade that leads to outsourcing of American jobs, pointless overseas interventions as pointed out in the excellent article by Andrew Bacevich here, and opposition to the ever expanding police state that impinges constantly on the freedom of American citizens with taserings and harassment then I think a strong populist movement uniting the disaffected left and true conservative paleos is possible that with smart organizing could place candidates in political office.
I say this BTW as a lefty Green who is also an open minded reader of The American Conservative, lewrockwell.com, antiwar.com, etc. I have been telling my lefty friends for months now BTW that the tea partiers are *not* the enemy of the American people, that the enemy is concentrated government power, militarism, and concentrated globalist wealth as exemplified by bankster and their corruption. Your writer Bill Kauffman here is a think a positive example of someone who could bring the decentralist anti authoritarian left and paleos together.
Something to think about…