Liberal contempt for tax day protesters

I completely agree with you. I have dialed back a lot of my own "messiah" & "koolaid" language because I do realize that it is not helpful and only furthers divisiveness which is exactly what the people who seek to control every aspect of American's lives want to see happen. I'll not be a puppet for the left or the right, we cannot allow ourselves to become tools for ANYBODY'S agenda. It is in the best interest to all freedom loving Americans that we learn to look past what divides us and focus on the common goal of having a nation of the people, by the people and for the people. UNITED WE STAND!

Funny they say WE don't want to pay our taxes when WE seem to be the only ones paying them! How many of 0bama's appointees and nominees had not paid tens of thousands few dollars in taxes? Too many.

HOw this for constructive critism STOP WASTEFUL SPENDING. STOP PUTTING US DEEPER IN DEBT. I don't care if you are democrat or a republican elected official. JUST STOP IT NOW. I was at the protests. I will be at the next one and the one after that and the one after...... for as long as it takes for them to get the message.

@ AngryKitty. I do tend to read between the lines of news reports. I agree that the press in your country is mostly very far from independent - it seems to be either 'fringe' radical or significantly muzzled (by whom, quite, I don't know ... but certainly there is pressure put on it from certain very influential quarters). My point was, really, that the blog post we were directed to - which was, after all, the main reason for the discussion - was heavily biased and grossly uninformed. I have no idea who wrote it (though I have my suspicions).

I'm sorry but you were misinformed! There were many THOUSANDS of people protesting and it was a peaceful protests. They crossed political parties. It wasn't just conservatives or republicans.

It's getting discussting to see folks clinging to their parties, like they were some connection to "diety." The whole of the government has sliddenoff track, and the ones that haven't are so targeted for slander, it is critical tha we all stand together. Real change for the good hasn't come - yet. I can't see how trillions spent will bringit about either. I say FLUSH ALL OF THEM AND THE MEDIA TOO, and let's start over, with some folks who are FOR the people, and not for their agenda and special interests groups. Flush ACORN too. Bring on more of the tea parties, and help raise the blood pressure of a lot more of the idiots that are lying and slandering the American voters and other new politicians on the scene. Ok - I'm done. {Quietly Classy Cat goes to the corner to sit down, and meditate on the American trauma now unfolding.}

I wish you had of decided to go, then you would have seen how great they were, instead of relying on the lies of liberals. Once again, the press has chosen to prove their incompetence instead of do their job.

You watched JON STEWART to get your news? Are you kidding me? What am I saying? At this point I'd almost say he's more reputable than CNN and MSNBC for Christ's sake. Seriously Anora, we're at a point in this country where you can't count on the media for your information anymore. I thought this last election would have taught everyone that. If you want to see what REALLY went on at these tea parties watch the videos on Youtube made by people who were there that didn't edit footage and give 30 seconds of a plant in the crowd to mislead you. Here's a little bit of REAL footage that they wouldn't show on CNN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcgPvBLkD0

Who are you arguing with Annora? Nobody here said anything about communism or tyrrany. Not ONE person on this thread used those words besides you. The tea parties were about people objecting to the current tax increases. One thing that the left wing media was too stupid, or too dishonest to report, is that taxes are being raised drastically all over this country. The garbage about Obama's tax cuts means nothing to people in Oregon, California, and New York because it's the STATES that are ballooning their taxes to the point that many are leaving. I can tell you that protesters from Miami weren't pissed about anything Obama did, they're pissed because they were lied to when they foolishly voted for a tax increase they were told would put more money into the metrorail and public transportation. Instead, that money was used to raise wages for the higher ups in the department of transportation, while there are FEWER trains running on the metrorail and the cost to use the metro has doubled. That's just ONE example of how some people here were abused, lied to, and hurt by tax increases. The original tea parties happened because people were pissed about a tax on their favorite breakfast beverage. Ok, more to the point it was about taxation without representation. The rallying cry I was hearing back in February was "No taxation with crappy representation" which is just the problem we have here with our local politicians lying to us and abusing our tax dollars. If you want to see another example of how Floridians were screwed look at the promises that the lottery revenues would go to education. We sure bit the big one on that.