I'm very good at doing the Step Arobics with a cocktail in my hand. You bring the booze, I'll teach ya, LOL!
Posted on 12/20/2009 6:38:29 PM PST by kozanne
My Fellow Americans,
When King George III of The British Empire had concluded his French and Indian war in 1763 he lacked to funds to pay for the costly event. His answer was to impose tax after tax on the colonies of America. He started confiscating their monies by taxing every activity of life and creating government subsidized monopolies on everything from courier services to tea. The King wanted to control every aspect of American life and bring as much money into the government coffers as possible.
We are, as I write this post, a mere six hours away from the United States Senate will vote on Cloture that begins a water fall effect to bring about government run health care by Christmas day. A move that will put the government literally in the business of valuing life, deciding how much you should weigh, and forcing you to pay for health care in order to be a citizen in good standing.
This is not the first, and certainly will not be the last power grab of this congress or presidential administration. They have consistently over reached their constitutional authority and shrugged their collective shoulders when called on it. Those of us that have written letters, emailed, called, marched, picketed and questioned in town hall meetings what authority our federal government was using have been laughed at and mocked. We have been ignored.
When President Bush forced through a mammoth bank bailout for some of the most powerful institutions on the planet We The People objected that we did not have the authority or the resources to do so, but no one listened. When President Obama pushed through the government takeover of those institutions and several others We The People said no, and the liberal Lame Stream Media mocked us. These events led to CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli calling for a TEA Party from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The TEA Party movement was born on February 27, 2009.
Over the last year we have done everything we can to get the attention on the Washington DC Proletariat that thinks they can rule over us and thumb their nose at the founding fathers and our founding documents. They are not listening. They have continued to spend and encroach on our rights and freedoms by passing EPA regulations calling our very breathe a dangerous threat to the world, spending without regard to the hazards, driving our dollar below that of third world countries and now taking over one sixth of the economy and forcing all of us into taxation slavery.
My friends it is time for all of us to stand together, to unite the movement and make a stand that shows those in Washington that we will not forfeit our freedoms to become slaves in a Socialist social experiment that We The People do not want. This is why we are calling the National Day of Strike action for January 20, 2010, the one year anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama. We The People are the engine of the American economy. We are the genius of the American way of life. We are the host of the parasites in Congress that provide the life blood of tax revenue for an irresponsible and unresponsive organism that only seeks it's own growth and well being.
The National Day of Strike-We The People Strike Back is an act of civil disobedience that is necessary to show our out of control government that we are serious about reigning in their un-constitutional confiscation of our finances, our freedoms and our rights. On January 20, 2010 We The People will strike at the life blood of that parasitic congress by denying them the tax revenue for one day. We will not work. We will not shop, or buy anything that is taxed. We will not renew any licenses, tags, file any government filings and we will not remain silent. On This day we will fire a shot across the bow of Congress that we rule them not the other way around.
These are times that try men's souls my friends. I have not in my life time seen a more hell bent move to take our great nation to the extreme left. We are lurching toward Marxism and Socialism and we are being led there by the very people who swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet they are the enemies. We cannot sit idly by and allow what so many generations of warriors and patriots have sacrificed their lives to defend.
Please help us grow this event across organizational, party or geographical lines. Now is the time for us to all stand together. We need leaders and organizers in every state of the union. More details will be coming out this week. UNITE THE RIGHT TO WIN THE FIGHT. For Freedom, Allen Hardage National Operations Director
whatever they have plan for us,
we outnumber them never forget that!!!
A day will not be enough, better make it a week.
If on January the 21st comes around and even a third of workers stayed home, I’ll apologize. However, I’m convinced that this is a pipe dream doomed to failure. A handful will strike and everyone who laughed before will be laughing again.
Yup, we sure do, but the people I talked with yesterday are giving up. They feel powerless, they are frustrated that all their efforts seem to be for nothing.
We have to rally them, and the best way to do that is action. Plans are being formed everywhere it seems. This new site is all over the Internet this evening.
We’ve got a lot to lose, no time to give up now. That’s what the enemy wants, for us to give up.
Thanks for posting this. I put up another post from this same site and was shot down for my efforts. I mainly wanted to spread the word. I’m glad to see you feel the same as I do and will be getting involved.
Sadly, this is what it’s come to. The nation is no longer because we sat idly by and let this happen. We ignored the lessons of history and now we will all pay a price.
My money is on Texas severing it’s ties first.
And what happens the next day?
I understand where you are coming from, but I don’t really care anymore who is left laughing. Thing is that before too long, nobody is going to be laughing about much of anything.
Let them laugh. If we’re going to go down, I’m going down fighting. They’re gonna have to work really hard to make me quit.
exactly just a few minutes ago i was about to raise the white flag but then I heard on the radio these exact words and I found hope.
also a little off topic
target is under attack by La Raza
http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m12d17-Target-requires-employees-to-provide-legal-papers-40-workers-quit?cid=examiner-email
call them for support before thy cave in
Texas isn’t going to severe it’s ties with the union. 99% of Texan’s, myself included are Americans first.
///Fat cat greedy Big Government politicians. \\\
This American/Michigander thanks you for that.
You are correct. Besides, I really wonder if Perry would have the gonads which I seriously doubt. He's playing the crowd right now, push come to shove, he won't do anything.
There's more than meets the eye at work here, we're just not seeing behind the curtain.
I’m a Texan by birth...but no longer live there. I’ll always be a Texan...I guess it’s that 3rd grade Texas history I learned. Remember the Alamo!
I love my country...but I love Texas especially.
Don’t know. If you have any good ideas, please offer them. This is all brand new to a lot of us and we need any talent we can get.....
We’re all in this thing together. If one state falls, we all fall. That’s the way I’ve always seen it, and always will.
Besides, how does temporarily restricting spending have any effect on the government? Seems to me the only people it might hurt (if it were effective, which it won't be - see above) would be merchants.
A better approach would be to refuse en masse to pay income taxes. The IRS is marginally constitutional at best anyway, and this would have a real impact. The problem here is obviously that it would take a very large number of people to participate, and that some would almost certainly be made examples of via IRS persecution if not outright prosecution. Also a problem is that most Americans have little control over tax payment thanks to the evil of witholding. The only option here would be for people to claim the maximum number of deductions, and to start doing it at the beginning of the tax year.
Something must be done, but the proposal contained in this post is only half-baked, I'm afraid. I'm all for pushing back hard (it's long overdue), but we must be SMART about how we do it.
You are right. For the handful that go along with this — people will just make up for it the next day and buy whatever they would have purchased on the 20th. The government will not lose much if anything.
The problem is that doing something ineffective is just as bad as doing nothing, maybe worse. If you do something ineffective, people won’t be as willing to show up a second time.
Personally, I think you need to starve the beast over a long period of time. Barter and trade under the table sort of thing.
Yep, I intend to stand my ground here in Michigan. The politics may suck but its my home and I love it but its part of a greater nation. Michigan wouldn’t be Michigan without Texas or any other states.
Will not do. Not a matter of staying home, I will be away on business at a conference. If I am not there, I and my company lose.
Try something else.
Americans first or America first? Which America would that be? The free America that our forefathers fought and died for and the one to which freedom-loving people from all over the world risked their lives to come? Or the Socialist-Dictatorship-impostor-governmental version of America currently being formed?
Many Texans want nothing to do with that second America. Neither do I.
I agree. This is another feel-good-do-nothing ploy.
If only a tiny portion of the populace would listen to me and STOP PAYING TAXES that they are not obligated to pay, we could bring this monster to its knees within the month. :)
Exactly. What really needs to be done is an honest to goodness tax revolt, where we all withold tax payments to the fed. The big problem with that is that most folks have excess witholdings looking for a big refund. If we all were in the position of having to write a tax check every April 15 (or thereabouts), collectively we could put a real hurtin on the fed.
If we strike can I come to your house and play Xbox? I bring the booze.
Been “boycotting” like this since the layoff last Jan.
Can we change it back? I don’t like this change.
AMEN! Exactly.
I got PS3 and Wii. The boxing on while sauced sounds like a gas.
That’s exactly what’s being discussed at a blog on the site. I totally agree, the best thing to do is starve the beast, it’s counterproductive to conduct an economic boycott in my opinion.
But a few million taxpayers changing their w-4’s for a day or a pay period.....might make the beast take notice....
I'm very good at doing the Step Arobics with a cocktail in my hand. You bring the booze, I'll teach ya, LOL!
bump for reading after my own trip to my county court house.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411786/posts
The only thing that will work is when the baby boomers or some other BIG group retire all at once. The fact that much smaller income is coming to the govt but the outflow is a lot bigger will eventually get their attention! Then we can make our voice heard. Will it come in time????????
got a better idea?
the people have got to get off their ass and get out on the street!!
why did DC give women the right to vote?
why did DC give blacks the right to vote?
because the wished for it.....hardly....because they forced the media to take note.....imagine the water cannons trained on a 100,000 conservatives.....next week a million......
The states ratified the Constitution as an agreement with the federal government. The Constitution is a contract between the states and the federal government. The federal government has broken that agreement and that contract and no longer abides by the terms of the Constitution. Therefore, the states are free from their ties to this rouge government. "Togetherness" doesn't include Marxism and tyranny.
It didn’t work out so hot last time. Loosen the tin foil.
You're correct -- strikes work for leftists because they work for the government - teachers, bus drivers, police, etc. and when they strike it causes headaches for everybody else. But conservatives tend to work for themselves, or in free enterprise businesses. Not working for a day is just hurting yourself.
A better idea is for everyone to talk to at least five people on January 20th and explain to them why our latest administration and the health care bill are a disaster. That takes bravery in some cases, particularly if you work around people who are liberals, but we need to overcome fear to fight for our nation.
Cutting tax payments to the government won't have much of an effect - their economic policies have already cut their revenues tremendously and they sure haven't stopped spending. Instead they are spending more.
The thing is that we need to read their playbook and play by their rules. Overwhelm their system, ridcule, stuff like that.
Gonna have to give that some thought.
I like that. Buy local. ACORN is now international, and the Democrat/Unions are the wealthy. Unionized, Uruguayan and Sri Lankan dues, with American salaries on par with Vietnamese wages.
What do I know. I’m an unejumacated hik.
But what if they come to believe, as they just might, that “America” isn’t out there any more; that its absolute antithesis has taken its place?
Can Senators Be Recalled
“Step Aerobics with a cocktail in my hand”
There’s an image. You never said you practiced ballet, Di. Or is it that you use the whiskey as carpet cleaner? ;>
There’s nothing organized about it. We’re simply getting more self-sufficient and aren’t buying much. ;-)
Well said Melas !
Whoa. “National Day of Strike?” Somebody’s dreamin’. We’re not buying anything until after the big default. ...not doing much, either, except for working on our own little production hobbies (casting steel parts and the like) in anticipation of replacing the trash in all kinds of leadership now.
Then y’all sink with the rest of us. Because playing by their rules and doing our civic duty’s gotten us halfway to slavery.
The union you’re sticking by is in the hands of maniacs.
The power of prayer is mightier than anything we could do - pray, pray for a miracle for God’s Salvation is at hand!
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