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Comment by sabrina Wheeler on August 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

is NOT the city...sorry

Comment by sabrina Wheeler on August 14, 2011 at 4:11pm

It's not just Clarence Page's column today, it's everyday. I sit amazed to read letters to the editor from complete morons touting Obama and bashing the Tea Party. What has happened to our city? Could the T-U be monitoring these letters, picking and choosing those that most match their ideology? This is the city I grew up and lived in for the past 50 years...

Comment by Mike Phillips on August 14, 2011 at 3:23pm

we will continue to be persecuted as christians, however we have the armor of God for protection

Comment by Doyle on August 14, 2011 at 2:55pm

It's too bad that Page didn't check to see how the Founding Fathers felt before he claimed the debate over increasing the debt ceiling would have left them quaking. It would have, I'm sure, but not for the reasons Page wants his readers to accept.

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I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. -Thomas Jefferson

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We're already being taxed to pay off the public debt, and Congress runs it up even more handling us an even bigger bill to pay.

If the debt were a one time thing or an occasional occurrence because of catastrophic events, I think we'd all agree that taxes or raising taxes to pay it off would be justified. That, however, is not the case.

Instead we have out-of-control government at every level demanding we pick up the tab for every cockamamie idea that the poltical elites can buy their constituents off with, to ensure their own high-paid employment within government and even bigger money after they leave office.

And keep pundits like Clarence Page collecting their own paychecks.

Comment by Steven D.Upshaw on August 14, 2011 at 2:51pm

If you want to stop the lies of those who write them you should call your local news paper and stop your subscription and tell them you are tired of their lies. The only way to reach them is to hit their pocket. When enough people do this they will understand. If every Tea Party member closed their subscription the editors would soon get the message. I canceled my subscription to the Times Union long ago. If it were done by 1000 people at once the message would be strong. If it were done buy 10,000 the pain in their pocket would echo all around Jacksonville. If every branch of the Tea Party in every town around the country did it it would ring around the nation. It can be done. 

Comment by William Korach on August 14, 2011 at 1:25pm

Thank God for the patriots of the Tea Party, and others who have born witness to the truth. The mainstream media, led by the NY Times have tried to remake America into their own image. In order to do this they must first discredit the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence that recognize our liberties come from God and not man. Thus Tea Party members, as witness to the false, biased reporting of the mainstream media, constitute a threat. 

We are not going away, and we will not rest until Constitutional government is restored, and socialism and "global government" are defeated. May they be destroyed utterly and the earth sown with salt where they stood.

Comment by Ronald I. Robertson on August 14, 2011 at 1:05pm

Billie, I had a similar violent reaction to Clarence Page's editorial.  Just shows how out-of-touch people like him (inside the beltway crowd) are viz-a-viz the real main stream of America.  His notion that the tea party has 'peaked' is wishful thinking at best and mean-spirited hate mongering at worst.  Like you, I am confident the tea party movement is still in its infancy.  As more clear-thinking, patriotic Americans realize what people like Page, Wasserman-Schultz, Axelrod et al. are purposely doing to this country, Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike will join this movement.

Comment by Jax Tico on August 14, 2011 at 12:36pm

There are so many more of us than there are of them.  Many Tea Partiers don't even know they hold the same believes as we do.  For instance, have you seen how many people are out this weekend shopping because it is a tax free weekend?  Did you notice how many people are buying so many essentials because they don't have to pay sales tax?

Now this is just one sales tax holiday, imagine if we can get the federal government to reduce the cost of everything by decreasing regulations on the supply chain, from manufacturing to transportation to energy to employment regulations our economy would be back to the good ol' days.  Tea anybody???

 

Comment by Paloma Patnode on August 14, 2011 at 12:31pm

Another great blog, Billie.  Thank you!

Comment by allen shemetulskis on August 14, 2011 at 12:01pm

do you think clarence paige knows there are democrats and independents that espouse tea party values?

anyone catch Wasserman-Shultz on face the nation.  i belive her new motto should be

"IF YOU CAN'T DAZZLE THEM WITH YOUR BRILLIANCE. THAN BAFFLE THEM WITH YOUR BULLSHIT"

Former Southside Chicago Democrat

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