BIG GOVERNMENT IS KILLING JOBS AND THE QUALITY OF THOSE JOBS IN AMERICA!

The Tea Party Movement does not want smaller government because of high tax burdens and the encroachment of unaliable rights but economic freedom as well.

Example;
Yahoo news writer Michael Snyder’s story THE MIDDLE CLASS IN AMERICA IS RADICALLY SHRINKING. HERE ARE THE STATS TO PROVE IT

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here%27s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=^DJI,^GSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA

We all know even without the STATS that America’s middle class and her American Dream has been slipping away from our grasp for a long time and it is the fault of Washington and Big Government interference.

Snyder is right to argue that global competition is to blame for the “GIANT SUCKING SOUND” which is a term made famous by Ross Perot in describing what would happen to American jobs if NAFTA was approved. However, the real vacuum cleaner that has been sucking away American’s opportunities belongs to Washington D.C. and its assault on capitalism.

I believe if the American worker has an even playing field we can and would outperform other labor markets because we work smarter not harder as our innovation over the years has proven.

He is right that in a global competitive workforce Americans cannot compete with other countries and their workers when you compare the cost of labor for a Corporation today in America after years and years of Washington’s interference in the free market system.

We in the Tea Party Movement understand what is wrong with the Country’s shrinking economy and our transition from manufacturing to a service workforce and it is NOT the sophist’s argument of corporate greed but the (sucking) sound of Washington’s big government taking away our once competitive marketplace.

The list the real reasons for the shrinking of the American middle class; Unions, Government labor laws and regulations,
America’s corporate tax structure,
litigiousness of our society requiring costly insurance and labeling on products that increase consumer costs,
Government spending that decreases low cost credit and lines of credit for business,
minimum wage laws and equal benefit laws that take away employers salary discretion in a merit system of compensation,
equating and lumping together small farming, logging and fishing in environmental regulations that kill small independent business when the real culprits to say over fishing are huge corporate owned trawlers,

requiring business to hire full time lawyers, accountants human resource personnel just to keep up with the ever changing laws coming out of Washington lawmakers and bureaucracies.
I could go on and on but the bottom line is that our GOVERNMENT has over regulated and overtaxed American businesses out of competitiveness in the global world of competition.

There is no question that Americans hold some responsibility to their fiscal folly in living beyond their means and using their credit cards in a childish ignorance of the financial consequences that come from being over-extended and in deep debt but our society has enticed them as well with no-money down encouragement. (Sub-prime lending, Fannie and Freddie Mac)

The reality is that the middleclass is becoming a dinosaur right in front of our eyes and our children will not just be saddled with debt from an out of control spending spree in Washington but a BUREAU-REGULA-TOCRACY that puts their future employment options in ever increasing over qualification and under compensated economic death of the American Dream!

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!

WE ARE NOT SURPRISED NOR ARE WE DAUNTED FROM OUR GOALS!

The latest smear by the left to marginalize patriotic Americans wishing to restore America’s political system to high standards by our Representatives and require them to be loyal to the Constitution and vote according to the will of their constituents, does not surprise us but should be telling and revealing to those still yet undecided.

The Tea Party Movement is being attacked for political gain with groundless, baseless accusations by left wing groups for the purpose of intimidating new membership and rallying their base to turn out to the polls in November.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faec35V_u4A

It is a pure political tactic, strategy and cynical manipulation of voter perception to save House and Senate seats for Democrats to remain in power. This in fact highlights the deterioration of the American political system to malign and attack the opposition while patronizing and diminishing the intelligence of the average voter.

The public should reject the notion that a few signs in a crowd of thousands is valid evidence to paint all Americans in a grassroots movement to restore American values in Washington as an extremist hate group.
The public should reject the notion that those in support of protecting our borders from ILLEGAL ALIEN crossing, drug-running and human trafficking are hostile to legal aliens and new immigrant citizens. We welcome legal immigrants and lawful visa and green card holders.

The public should reject the notion that their vote can be bought, bribed, and or baited by negative name calling when there is valid disagreement on political policies and direction of Washington.

The tea Party movement is a ground swelling of American voices who are young and old, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents, rich, poor and middle class Americans that have gathered in many groupings across the nation. These average Americans of all walks of life are unhappy with politics as usual, Socialism replacing our Constitutional Republic and a Federal Government in Washington that is out of touch and ignoring the plight of hard working Americans.

The Tea Party Movement who are average American citizens have been called names for gathering in the public square (rallies) expressing their civic responsibility to question and hold their Representatives accountable (Town hall Meetings) and participating in the political process to fire incumbents and elect new candidates that adhere to Public Service integrity and the voice of the people (Primary elections).

Are you not tired of being duped, doped and discarded by special interest groups with one hand in our treasury and the other in the back pocket of Washington politicians?

Are you going to let political organizations disparage honest hard working Americans seeking responsible government to be profiled and tainted with a broad brush of negative hate filled rhetoric?
Are you going to let the political power brokers intimidate you or persuade you as they attempt to herd votes in the continuation of courting you at election time and ignoring you once in power?

We are the people and we are Americans speaking up and standing up for America. We love our fellow Americans and call everyone to stand up for Individual freedom, liberty and justice for all.

NATIONASLISM VESUS PATRIOTISM

In researching the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism I have found more inaccurate and incomplete contrasts and comparisons written, yet oddly I know most Americans understand the difference between these two allegiances in their hearts even if unable to articulate them.

The general overview of Nationalism is that it is a belief and love of your Country’s Government and culture. The French are very Nationalistic about both and are very inhospitable to the encroachment of other cultures supplanting themselves into the French marketplace.

Nationalistic Countries equally have a tendency toward xenophobia such as in China where it perceives perhaps because of its past history of occupation and pillaging from Japan and Great Britain, any acceptance of foreign culture as a diminishment of Chinese culture and therefore a threat.

Patriotism on the other hand venerates ideals of their country be it governmental or cultural. American Patriotism does not celebrate the government that is current and in power but rather the ideals of government as in the Constitution and the American Democratic Republic. Equally Patriotism celebrates the ideals of our culture, such as, freedom of the individual, free enterprise, the American Dream, pluralism, hard work, the pioneer spirit, and importantly family (Mom and apple pie).

The Nationalist believe that their government and culture is superior to others and therefore it has rightly been considered a blind loyalty as well as an arrogant claim of superiority.

The Patriot believes that their form of government (ideals) along with its cultural (ideals) is superior to all others and has been wrongly characterized as being the same as Nationalism where both blind loyalty and arrogance is celebrated when instead patriotism celebrates individual independence.

The individual rights and the sacrifices made by our ancestry to establish those rights along with the soldiers of today protecting those rights are clearly what Patriotism is about contrasted by Nationalism that bows to ethnicity and cultural identity.

Demanding that new immigrants assimilate into our culture by learning English and showing love and respect to our constitution is not cultural snobbery or bigotry, quite the contrary, it is proclaiming that what constitutes your American status as a citizen is reliant on the American system and its ideals and your fealty to those Constitutional protections not your ethnicity.

The current Germans are Nationalistic as was the Germans under Adolph Hitler’s Nazi party. Nationalist are loyal to their government and culture in whatever form it arises, transforms or changes in practical application to the notion that if you are a German then you should always be proud of your motherland. Nationalism is a blind, arrogant and indoctrinated concept of loyalty that has always been a dangerous and agitating passion that sometimes incites conflict.

Patriotism however, is not about loyalty to a government but to a concept of government or ideal and that is not a small distinction. Patriots look to the idea of individual rights and freedoms and are roused when those ideas and ideals are challenged. They have loyalty to a document indeed a contract such as the Constitution and not to a President, Congress or a Supreme Court.

Also American Patriotism is unique because of the exceptional nature of its governmental system and ideals of freedom. Americans rally around the flag understanding it to be a symbol of individual freedom and then only by extension is the superiority of our society felt because we are grateful and appreciative for those unalienable rights and protections.

Patriotism is stirred when enemies of America and her Constitutional protections and our way of life are threatened by either outside forces, (Islamic Terrorists) or in what we are experiencing today, inside forces, Progressive Democrats (Socialists) challenging those ideals and individual rights to freedom.

The Tea Party Movement is not a third party, is not an organization founded on Nationalistic principles, is not a co-opted or a funded Republican mask like the many Democratic party masks(ACORN, SEIU) and is not a top down led group by neo-con Conservatives. It is a growing gathering force of Patriots in the spirit of our tradition of defending our individual freedoms as law-abiding, value-laden, civic-minded honorable citizens that are awakening from apathy and complacency.

Americans are not Nationalists and we proudly stand together in our pluralistic society and assert our Patriotism together with brand new citizens along side of those whose heritage dates back to the first Puritan settlers.

There should be not cry for humility; no equation with Nationalism and no tempering with guilt as we proudly proclaim our Patriotism as “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”