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by LukeAmerica2020 on July 5, 2009

Background:
U.S. Senator Jim Demint (R-SC) is travelling across his home state this holiday weekend on a tour bus promoting his new book, Saving Freedom, and visiting Tea Party rallies. He stopped in our Barnes & Noble here in Myrtle Beach for a scheduled book signing Friday night.

Our rally here is on July 11th and his schedule will have him elsewhere. While in town though, our own GeekGirl2u arranged with his folks for him to speak with our Tea Party organizers after the event (she’s spoken with them a few times in the past two weeks).

Our group consists of over two dozen active volunteers, but only a handful of us made it this July 3rd for the book signing. (BTW, we formed a non-profit corporation a few weeks ago so that we can accept donations to fund our activities.) Frankly, we are quite grateful that he took 30 minutes from his very busy schedule to chat with us privately. Before this session, we were impressed with his voting record and his solutions to stop the slide into socialism. Afterward … and we talked about it for nearly two hours … we are convinced that this down-to-earth U.S. Senator is a national leader in the fight to take back our country.

There were a couple of moments when his sense of humor had us laughing. Irv, a 78-year-old Navy veteran, said, “Sir, I have a confession.” The Senator quipped, “Haven’t we had enough of those lately?” Irv then explained that he was a war veteran and has now been called a “right-wing extremist” by the current administration. Mr. Demint shook his hand and thanked him for his service to our country.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on July 4, 2009

I first read the following piece several weeks ago. At the time, it seemed more like a forecast written in biblical prose.

Today, it’s making the email rounds again. And, it really grips my heart in this reading by realizing how true it is … by realizing how much closer we are to the fatal infection of socialism in America.

Although some have claimed credit for this literary work, the first appearances on the Net (in late April) either gave pure anonymous credit or vague credit to “a pastor’s wife”.

It’s not a bible story or a fairy tale. With the exception of the last few lines, it is actually current news written in prose.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on July 2, 2009

In his Morning Update today, Rush Limbaugh reports that the government has already earned over $6 billion in profits from the paid back TARP funds. But, instead of being returned to the American taxpayers, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) has proposed that it be used for his own pet projects.

 

This video is from the infohwyguy YouTube channel.

 
Reference:
   www.rushlimbaugh.com

 

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 30, 2009

Recently, as the web developer and document designer for our Tea Party in Myrtle Beach, I was asked to put together the content for a poster for our upcoming rally that would describe who we are, organizers and attendees. Here’s what we approved.

We are everyday Americans who are concerned about the direction that our country has been headed for the last few years. We are tired of politicians who don’t read the bills they sign, tired of big government growth, and tired of reckless government spending. We stand united against the inevitable taxes to pay for it all … because we do not want our children and our grandchildren to pay the bills for what our ‘non-representing representatives’ are doing today.

We are moms and dads. We are grandparents and grandchildren. We are students, office workers, laborers, and the unemployed. We are black, white, and brown. We are rich and poor. We are old and young. We span the realm of demographics. We are Americans. And, we love this country.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 29, 2009

On ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos (Sunday; 2009-06-28), White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won’t rule out a health care reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike.

“The president had said in the past that he doesn’t believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that,” Axelrod told me on This Week, “But there are a number of formulations and we’ll wait and see. The important thing at this point is to keep the process moving, to keep people at the table, to the keep the discussions going. We’ve gotten a long way down the road and we want to finish that journey.”

I pressed Axelrod on whether Obama will draw a line in the sand and veto any bill that funds health care reform with tax hikes for people making under $250,000 a year — despite a pledge Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign not to raise taxes on the poor and middle-class.

References:
   ABC News - story
   ABC News - transcript
   Washington Post - story recap

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 28, 2009

This video presents a compelling series of news clips that document the “remaking of America”. You might want to pass this one along to friends and family. The author also has the web site TexasDaze.

(The volume is loud on this one; you may want to turn your sound down a little before viewing.)

 

This video is from the kingtexas1 YouTube channel.

 

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 27, 2009

Do you have friends and family who realize that something is very wrong today in this country, but they won’t take action? They complain about big government spending and the ongoing stupidity in Washington, but that’s all they do … complain.

They are good people; they are concerned; but they believe that their public voice won’t matter. They have never been politically active. And, they start making excuses when you ask them to take action. They believe that somehow, without action, all this craziness will correct itself.

We all have kith and kin who are like this. Most of us Tea Party activists are just everyday Americans who never even considered attending rallies. With each of us, who loves freedom in our country, it took a final disconcerting spark for us to heed the call to action.

The couch potatoes, hesitant warriors, and the stay-at-home silent majority need that proper spark. Perhaps, you might pass this article along to them … along with words of encouragement … while we can still speak out.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 22, 2009

Susumu speaks out about the Delta Smelt and the plight of the California farmer … and how Bills such as HR875 and the ahem, “gas tax” are putting our farmers, nationwide, in jeopardy.

This video is from the RestrainedNoMore YouTube channel.

 
Related Reference:
   RestrainedNoMore.com

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 19, 2009

Since 1994, ACORN has received more than $53 million in direct federal funding. And, over the years, ACORN and its employees have also been the subject of investigations, indictments, and consent decrees in states all across the nation for election-related activities that run afoul of the law.

This isn’t a political witch hunt, as many Democrats claim. The prosecutors who have brought the charges against ACORN and its employees are both Republican and Democrat. They’re doing their jobs, enforcing the law and protecting the integrity of the voting process.

Yet even as fresh charges were being filed against ACORN and its employees in Nevada and Pennsylvania, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to protect the stream of tax dollars to this organization. They stripped down language that I had put in a mortgage reform bill (HR 1728) – language that would have ensured that Congress sets a high bar for who has access to your tax dollars.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 17, 2009

The following letter was emailed to Glenn Beck two days ago by Janet Contreras. She’s an everyday citizen who passionately expresses her anger over the ongoing failures of our ‘non-representing’ representatives in DC to address the concerns of their constituencies.

To me, she discusses the very issues that should be topics in every Tea Party Rally. In fact, you might even consider reading it at your own rally.

But before our next events, I’d suggest that you share this article (and videos) with EVERYONE you know. Let’s help spread her sentiments by proving that as she states “the silent majority is no longer silent.” Send it to everyone you know and ask them to do the same!

She calls it “An Open Letter to our Nation’s Leadership”…

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 16, 2009

“Worst Side Story” laments about our financial mess to tunes from West Side Story. This video creation is by Walt Handelsman of Newsday.

 

This video is from the adminkoff YouTube channel.

 

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 15, 2009

This video is a version of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Sixteen Tons humorously describing the massive spending by our federal government. The lyrics are below.

 

This video is from the Apparition8 YouTube channel.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 11, 2009

America Is Under Attack:
One of the popular mantras of the Tea Party movement, “revolution is brewing”, implies that we, the people, are on the verge of starting a revolution. Although this slogan is a clever play on words, it is something of a misnomer. In reality, we ARE the American resistance, not the revolutionaries.

We ARE the defenders of the republic. We are the steadfast holdouts for freedom. We are the intractable believers in self-reliance. We are the unyielding supporters of capitalism. We are the obstinate zealots for the rule of law upon which this great nation was founded.

Make no mistake about it; we are under attack. They rapid-fire unrelenting salvos so steadily that some have inured ourselves to the ongoing injuries and ceaseless destruction.

We are under attack by equally adamant forces who strive to ‘change’ our country into a new form a government and a new type of economy. They have taken control of our banks. They have taken control of our insurance industry. They have taken control of our automotive industry.

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by LukeAmerica2020 on June 9, 2009

In this interview with Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin discusses several aspects of big government spending … and the detrimental effects it will have on individual states.

 

 

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by Stephen A. on June 5, 2009

This article is for your information. Please read.

Note from Don Wildmon: For years I have refused to use words such as marxism, socialism, or similar words when describing our current situation. However, it is time to call a spade a spade, regardless of those who oppose label use. Rome is burning. The article below was written by Stanislav Mishin, a blogger and columnist for the Russian newspaper Pravda.

American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper (from Pravda.ru)

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

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