Time for a tea party?

Well it is getting to be close to that time of year when everyone has to answer to the IRS for the financial success or failure for the year. I am willing to guess that for many of us, the picture hasn't been too handsome. I know it sure isn't for us. We have had a tough year. Actually the last 3 or 4 haven't been too great. Could we have been better managers? Yes of course. Life has been extraordinarily stressful for many Americans the last few years, but it has been hard to break habits of prosperity. Our downfall is not having the energy or time to cook which gives McDonald's a good fiscal outlook. Nor is it easy to do without cell phones or internet connections like it used to be. Even the government resents having to have other methods rather than electronic for all those folks who have resisted giving in to 21st century technology. Their public service announcements always tell you that you can access more on the web, but reluctantly gives you a phone number if you are gauche enough to not be computer-ready.But I digress.......

Most people in America have had it good for a long time. The rest of the world knows it, but Americans don't always acknowledge it. We have gotten used to having it all even when we can't pay for it. Kind of like a giant Ponzi scheme, it isn't really sustainable. When you break it down to what we really need to survive, our misery is all but laughable. What we need to be is what we are not anymore.Thankful!
I agree with liberals on few things, but I do believe in charity. Happily, that is something most Americans are good at. We believe we are the good guys,(and we are!) and we ride to the rescue when something is wrong in the world. I am happy about that. What I am not happy about is the same thing many other Americans are not happy about: our government growing so large that one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. The fact that the political environment is so insular, and doesn't even hear the American people say "whoa" to the growing of our insane national debt! Our government is rife with corruption and, even worse, just the kind of habitat for people that want to make a career and a buck out of two-timing their constituents.

This is supposed to be a representative government. Washington, D.C. is so overrun with individuals that have their own agendas to tend to at the expense of the people they represent. A lot of us are fed up with it, and that is why you have the "tea party" movement. No particular leader, no particular party and no micro-management: just a bunch of tax-paying citizens that read the Constitution and don't believe the document our Founding Fathers gave us is being followed closely or correctly. There are a bunch of elitist people and organizations who put their agendas before the best interests and opinions of the majority of Americans in both parties. We are a diverse people but we can care about our environment without putting the" yellow-bellied, red-crested woodpecker" ahead of human beings. We can be fiscally responsible without being the party of "No", or the party of "Go"!

We had a tea party rally last year on April 15th on the courhouse square here in Starke County. Many people were amazed by the turnout for a quickly-planned, and under-organized rally, but that just shows that here in Starke county, we want our voices heard too! It was planned in just two weeks, and put together hastily, but it had an impact. We are trying to plan another event for this year, and we would like as much help as we can get. If anyone would like to help plan and carry out a rally, or a political "meet and greet" before the primary, contact me at (574) 241-5150. I don't want to vote for anyone that I don't know anything about. I've done that and it never felt right. It matters whom we elect here in Starke county. We could be furthering the career of a future advisor to the President or the President himself. Stranger things have happened. We need to know these nominees and their agendas in our home county too. It affects all of us.