Talking Points and Theme for the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party

Draft, February 24, 2009

Theme:

Our Message to Congress:
REPEAL OR RETIRE

Repeal all your irresponsibile spending bills. Repeal Every single one of them:

The Mortgage Bailout
The $1 Trillion Pork-Laden Stimulus
The Auto Bailout
The Wall Street Bailout

If not, we will RETIRE you at the Ballot Box in 2010
We're signing up now. We're determined. We're in the right. We won't rest until you're out. We have the technology. We know how to use it.


Talking Points

The Problem

 

  1. The Obama Economic Plan to borrow unprecedented amounts of money we don’t have in order to spend our money on political spoils projects we mostly don’t need is both morally and fiscally disastrous. It is the largest giveaway in American History. $1 Trillion for the stimulus is only the beginning of these big spending ways. Even the Congressional Budget Office says that the "Stimulus" Bill Congress passed and President Obama signed will create few jobs in 2009 and 2010, but will instead cause dangerously high levels of inflation as the Federal Government lets the Treasury printing presses run indiscriminately.
  2. There’s one proven way to create jobs: cut income taxes and cut wasteful spending on projects that are beyond the scope of the proper role of government. Republicans and Democrats alike have spent too much money in the past few years on special interests.
  3. 7 per cent of all mortgages are not current. Why should the 93% of homeowners who have been responsible and paid their mortgages bail out the 7 %, many of whom have been irresponsible.
  4. Big companies with highly paid lobbyists have cut back room deals to get special financial benefits to bail them out of their own bad decisions. Their greed and high lifestyle has been paid by the taxes of the average Americans who, though not represented by lobbyists, pay the taxes, fight the wars, and make this country work. Wall Street, Detroit, Citibank – none of them deserve our money just because they are large organizations that have failed, but are politically connected.
  5. We’ve borrowed $1 trillion we don’t have, and it will be paid for by our children and grandchildren, in the form of lost opportunities arising from the inflation and debt load they will be burdened with due to our own profligacy.

The Solution
  1. We are determined netizen patriots, whose minds and hearts are fixed on the noble purpose of restoring the limited Republican form of government the Founders created in 1789. It took 220 years of blood, toil, and tears to maintain and preserve our Republic. In one month, following up on several years of a slow slide to Socialism, Barack Obama and the Liberal Democrats have done their best to destroy the very principles of individual responsibility on which this Republic was formed.
  2. We are determined to protect our Republican form of Government, and will work tirelessly without rest so long as free markets and individual liberty are under attack from the forces of Governmental Control of all forms of economic engagement.
  3. Thanks to American innovation and free markets, we now have the technology tools that can help us succeed in our cause. As the success of this rapidly organized nationwide protest today shows, we know how to use these tools. The good news is we are only at the very beginning of that process. Come join us and become a netizen patriot, and help restore limited government to the United States.
  4. We ask you today to sign up and join our noble cause. You can sign up now at a table hosted by #TCOT, Smart Girl Politics, the #Dontgo Movement, or one of many conservative candidates for Congress and the Senate who are attending today.
  5. Support a Conservative Candidate and help him defeat in 2010 a Congressman or Senator who voted for the Porkulus plan, the Mortgage Bailout, the Wall Street Bailout, and the Auto Bailout
  6. Sign up for action projects to support the immediate Repeal of Porkulus and Bailouts, and support laws to cut taxes and reduce spending