Thousands rally with 'tea parties' on tax day

[biopowertoday]

Source: AP





http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090415/ap_on_re_us/tax_day_protests


Thousands rally with 'tea parties' on tax day



Thousands rally at the Tennessee State Capitol at the Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Nashville, Tennessee Reuters – Beverly Taylor from Hendersonville, Tennessee, rallies with others at the Tennessee State Capitol at …



By JOE BIESK, Associated Press Writer Joe Biesk, Associated Press Writer – Wed Apr 15, 7:55 pm ET

ATLANTA – Whipped up by conservative commentators and bloggers, tens of thousands of protesters staged "tea parties" around the country Wednesday to tap into the collective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts. The rallies were directed at President Barack Obama's new administration on a symbolic day: the deadline to file income taxes. Protesters even threw what appeared to be a box of tea bags toward the White House, causing a brief lockdown at the compound.

Shouts rang out from Kentucky, which just passed tax increases on cigarettes and alcohol, to Salt Lake City, where many in the crowd booed Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman for accepting about $1.5 billion in stimulus money. Even in Alaska, where there is no statewide income tax or sales tax, hundreds of people held signs and chanted "No more spending."

"Frankly, I'm mad as hell," said businessman Doug Burnett at a rally at the Iowa Capitol, where many of the about 1,000 people wore red shirts declaring "revolution is brewing." Burnett added: "This country has been on a spending spree for decades, a spending spree we can't afford."


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In Atlanta, thousands of people gathered outside the Capitol, where Fox News Channel conservative pundit Sean Hannity was set to broadcast his show Wednesday night. One protester's sign read: "Hey Obama you can keep the change."...................

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[biopowertoday]

1. UPdated headline: Tens of thousands rally at tax day 'tea parties'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_re_us/tax_day_protests




Tens of thousands rally at tax day 'tea parties'



By SHANNON MCCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer Shannon Mccaffrey, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 11 mins ago

[ninety lives]

3. Tens of thousands....

Is the majority of the American people! I am so intimidated by your overwhelming protest! It's not as if you
lost an election or something.

Also....these people took time away from their CAREERS to do something as stupid as waste tea bags.

Why do they have jobs in the first place?

[RalphieD]

5. You're right

They lost and they're mad.  They probably don't have jobs and
just want to live off the gov't dole anyway.

[4lbs]

2. So, in other words, sum up all the people at all the cities, and it's about 20 thousand people.

Or the equivalent of a typical Obama rally last year.

:D

[cloudythescribbler]

4. check out this you tube & repost widely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTU2He2BIc0

[goclark]

6. K and R

[geomon666]

7. You know what's sad.

Most of these idiots out there throwing teabags around are the ones that are probably getting tax cuts and don't even know it because they're middle class.

[ShareTheWoods]

11. Not a teabagger but the tax cut was an insult, $26.00 a month here

It makes a tiresome talking point but other than that it does not even cover the smoking tax hike.

Pathetic.

[antiblazer]

8. Repukes hate America

These Rush Limpballs lemmings are anti-American, unpatriotic and hate America! Leave the country, Republican neo-fascists!

[macebowman]

9. Teaparty

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/the-real-boston-tea-party_b_187189.html

http://www.goldmansachs666.com/

Goldman Sachs Workers Top Donantion List
Friday August 20, 2004 2:03pm

NEW YORK (AP) - With Election Day little more than two months away, employees at Goldman Sachs Group are far and away the most active political donors on Wall Street.

In the 2004 election cycle to date, employees at the New York-based investment bank have given just under $4 million to political candidates and causes, in nearly 2,000 separate donations, according to Federal Election Commission data made available by the Web site opensecrets.org.

OK, I know there's been all this stuff about how Hillbama is a two-headed corporate monster, but I was still a bit surprised by a link that was posted on another thread. Barack Obama's top contributor is GOLDMAN SACHS? With a donation of

$369,078

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4295398

In fact, just to refresh everyone's memory, here's a rundown of the various forms of government largesse that Goldman -- which last September was forced to turn itself into a bank-holding company so that it could take deposits, in order to survive the financial crisis -- has taken advantage of lately.


TARP funds: $10 billion plus
AIG securities lending unit: $4.6 billion
Maiden Lane III: $5.8 billion
AIG collateral: $2.5 billion

Total: $22.9 billion plus

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/government_sachs_tarp_funds_just_the_tip_of_the_ic.php

If we would have had a REAL teaparty we would have stormed all the Goldman Sachs offices and thrown their computers into the street.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. First honest and factual report I've seen in print!! A+++++

The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, who is now a lobbyist.

Organizers said the movement developed organically through online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and through exposure on Fox News.

While FreedomWorks insisted the rallies were nonpartisan, they have been seized on by many prominent Republicans who view them as a promising way for the party to reclaim its momentum.

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