TEA PARTY DIRECTORIES ALL-IN-ONE…& Facts

Updated by FactReal on March 18, 2010 ….this page will be updated as more info comes in….

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URGENT: Americans to descend on Washington to stop ObamaCare – Saturday, 3/20/2010 NEXT MIAMI TEA PARTY: Protest Against Obamacare – 3/20/2010

WHAT ARE TEA PARTIES? AMERICANS PROTESTING GOVERMENT WASTE & EXPANSION Who we are: Concerned Americans of every stripe. Old, young, Independents, Ron Paul supporters, Democrats, Republicans. Americans! What unites us: We are against the staggering money being wasted by Washington and the control they want to exert upon us. We are using the First Amendment to protest. Who we are NOT: Revolutionaries, bomb-throwers, makers of threats…ARE NOT WELCOME. Know this: If you make any threats of violence, you will be reported to the Police. (Hat tip: San Antonio Tea Party)

Proud to be an AMERICAN! Never forget.

*VIDEOS: TOWN HALLS & PROTESTS AGAINST OBAMACARE – August 2009 (and facts) *FACTS: OBAMA-CARE 101: LONG WAITS, LOW QUALITY, RATIONING, CONTROL… *FACTS: WHY VOTE AGAINST CAP & TRADE *FACTS: $11 TRILLION DOLLARS IN BAILOUTS, FLYERS: BAILOUT SUMMARY (PDF), GOVERNMENT WASTE (PDF)
	click here to see breakdown of $11 TRILLION DOLLARS IN BAILOUTS!!! U.S. Debt clock

DIRECTORIES OF TEA PARTIES What’s next? After the successful Tea Parties & Town Hall Meetings around the nation, more protests are coming: American Liberty Tour (American Liberty Alliance), FreedomWorks, ResistNet, Tea Party Patriots (has list of tea party groups), DC Works For Us, Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, PJTV, Take Back USA, TCOT Report, Tea Party Express, Tea Party Day, Tea Party Revolution, 912 DC, On Facebook, Twitter: #teaparty

click image for your local Tea Party links: TaxDayTeaParty.com, on Facebook	WHY TEA PARTY? “It was all the way back in 1773 when American colonists held the Boston Tea Party. They pitched crates of tea into the harbor to protest British taxation. Now citizens angry over the stimulus bill are paying homage to the event to make a point by hosting tea parties in cities country-wide.” “1773 TEA ACT: By reducing the tax on imported British tea, this act gave British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America. American colonists condemned the act, and many planned to boycott tea. 1773 BOSTON TEA PARTY: When British tea ships arrived in Boston harbor, many citizens wanted the tea sent back to England without the payment of any taxes. The royal governor insisted on payment of all taxes. On December 16, a group of men disguised as Indians boarded the ships and dumped all the tea in the harbor. As news of the “tea party” spread, similar acts of resistance occurred in other ports.” Library of Congress, more
click image for your local Tea Party link: ReTeaParty.com	WHAT AMERICANS WANT? Hat tip: Tampa Tea Party	WILL YOU KEEP AMERICA FREE? link: Thomas Paine in 2009
click image for your local Tea Party link: Tea Party Google Map, FreedomWorks.org. Add an event here	TEA PARTY – SAN ANTONIO, TX link: They think you are stupid, San Antonio Tea Party, READ THE RULES!!!	TEA PARTY – MIAMI, FL links: South Florida Tea Party, DC Works For Us, on Facebook
link: The 912 Project	link: Hannity blog, more
click image for your local Tea Party links: PJTV, on Facebook	FROM PJTV: CITIZEN REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS PJTV is also signing up Citizen Reporters and Photographers to help cover and document the American Tea Party protests Click here to sign up
MORE: Atlanta Tea Party
FACTS & NEWS & TIPS
FACTS: WHAT WE ARE PROTESTING 10 Tax Facts for Tax Day Tea Parties #1. Under the Obama budget, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that the national debt will double over the next 5 years; and it will triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion. #2. Under the Obama budget, CBO projects that the national debt will soar over the next 10 years from 40% of GDP today to a shocking 82.4%. (Ronald Reagan left office with the national debt at 42% of GDP). #3. The president’s budget also states that total federal borrowing will grow by $2.7 trillion this year alone, an increase of 27% in 1 year! #4. The budget Obama proposes for this year increases federal spending by an incredible 34% over the previous year, with a total of $4 trillion in federal spending, the highest ever. #5. The federal budget deficit (not the national debt) would reach $1.845 trillion this year, according to the CBO, the highest ever. That would be more than 7 times Reagan’s largest budget deficit of $221 billion, which caused so much consternation among Reagan’s critics. #6. The CBO estimates that this Obama budget deficit will total an astounding 13.1% of GDP, more than one-eighth of the entire U.S. economy, for the federal budget deficit alone! Under George Bush, the federal deficit for 2008 was 3.2% of GDP. The deficit for fiscal year 2007, in the last budget adopted when Congress was controlled by Republican majorities, was $162 billion, or 1.2% of GDP. #7. The Obama budget also includes $1 trillion in tax increases on the upper 5% of income earners, mostly tax rate increases. But the top 5% of income earners already pays 60% of all income taxes. #8. The Obama budget projects that revenues from the corporate income tax will more than double in 3 years, increasing, in fact, by more than 124%. #9. Another $645 billion tax increase comes from Obama’s anti-global warming cap and trade system, which is essentially an energy tax on the production and use of carbon energy, such as oil, natural gas, and coal. #10. While the Obama administration claims to have cut $2 trillion from the budget over 10 years, fully $1.5 trillion of those “cuts” actually represents the troop drawdown in Iraq, which was already scheduled to occur under the Bush administration. Of the remaining $500 billion in budget “savings,” fully $311 billion is categorized as “interest savings” but is actually an additional tax increase on upper income earners.		Government spending does NOT stimulate Economy
2009 Government Waste Report: The 2009 Pig Book identified 10,160 projects at a cost of $19.6 billion, Summary Reasons to protest 10 Ways the Obama Budget Wastes Taxpayer Money, or here Obama’s fiscal year 2010 budget proposal amounting to $3.55 trillion in spending was released on Feb. 26. According to the CBO, the president’s proposals will add deficits of $9,300,000,000,000 over the next 10 years—many times more than the inflation adjusted cost of all of World War II. The budget proposal sets record levels of annual spending between a minimum of $3,556,000,000,000 in 2011 and $5,139,000,000,000 in 2019. The budget raises taxes by as much as $3,000,000,000,000 over the next ten years: 1. The Budget Includes a $646 Billion Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax. 2. The Budget Makes a “Down Payment” on Socializing Healthcare. 3. The Budget Hands out Billions to Agencies that Fund ACORN and other Community Organizing Groups. 4. The Budget Increases Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Funding after It Helped Cause the Financial Crisis. 5. The Budget Summary Claims that Government Knows Better than Taxpayers about Their Retirement. 6. The Budget Creates Yet Another Entitlement and Spends Billions on Pell Grants. 7. The Budget Spends $178 Billion on Interest on the Debt. 8. The Budget (as Part of Its $1 Trillion Tax Hike!) Raises Taxes by $1 Billion to Fund the Failed EPA Superfund Program. 9. The Budget Generates Even More Cheap Credit to Further Distort the Market. 10. The Budget Increases Funding for Space Exploration while the Country Suffers in Recession.		Read how government wastes your money
Analysis of Obama’s tax & spend budget Earmarks in Omnibus Bill: Omnibus Bill included about 9,000 earmarks…to pay politicians’ special interest groups: $6.6 Million for termite research $5.8 Million for Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate $5.0 Million for sugarbeet/avian disease $3.8 Million for tiger stadium $2.7 Million for wood education (??) $2.2 Million for grape genetics $2.0 Million for Astronomy Promotion $1.8 Million for PIG & MANURE ODOR $1.7 Million for Honey bee $1.2 Million for Citrus canker (which doesn’t affect the fruits) $1.0 Million for Crickets $819,000 for catfish genetics $800,000 for oyster rehabilitation $473,000 for leftist National Council of La Raza (The Race) $469,000 for Fruit Fly $380,600 for Carbon Neutral Green Campus $300,000 for GO GIRL GO! (???) $250,000 for Lobsters $225,000 for EVERYBODY WINS! (???) $209,000 for Blueberry improvements $200,000 for TATTOO REMOVAL $100,000 for READY WILLING & ABLE (??)…and more… Waste in Stimulus Bill: $21 Million for sod $200 Million for the National Mall $600 Million for new cars for the federal government $650 Million for digital TV coupons…and more…		9,000 Porky-Earmarks
NEWS: MIAMI TOWN HALL MEETING – Senator Bill Nelson 8/13/09 NATIONWIDE RALLY AGAINST OBAMACARE – August 22, 2009 Miami to Protest Against High Taxes McCaskill’s Office Locks Doors, Pulls Blinds, Calls Cops & Forces Obamacare Protesters Off Public Property Nationwide protest against socialized medicine & cap-and-tax – July 2009 St. Louis Rally Against Obamacare-July 2009 in Clayton MIAMI TEA PARTY – July 2, 2009 NEXT MIAMI TEA PARTY – July 2, 2009 Find an Independence Day Tea Party Obama mocks tea parties May 30th – Protesting against Obamacare (socialized medicine) Californians reject tax hikes…but liberals belittle them, more A Tea Party to welcome Obama in Albuquerque May 14th Tea Party protestors accept Obama’s challenge Tea Party “welcomes” Obama in Missouri, more Obama’s DHS calls us terrorists (reports PDF) Obama’s Homeland Security report compares the Tea Party movement to the domestic terrorist Weather Underground, more, more Tax Day Tea Party Coverage Tax Day Tea Party Twitter Official Tax Day Tea Party Text Alerts: Text keyword “teaparty” to 69302 (more) Tea Party Smear Watch: The Race Card Tea Party News Tea Party Progress Report, Map How infiltrators will attack at Tea Parties WARNING! Anti-Tea Party sabotage and smear campaign		Obama attacks tea parties, more Is this Obama’s new era of clean politics? Can you feel his liberal love? videos: Tortured by Liberals
Infiltration: how to deal with potential agents provocateurs from the left: It’s not time to back down, it’s time to prepare for such an infiltration. “ACORN and the Huffington Post are planning to infiltrate the Tea Parties…trying to make the Tea Party movement seem to be what it’s not, painting libertarians as racists or similar nonsense, well, that deserves to be exposed and countered vigorously. So my recommendation to Tea Party demonstrators…Keep your eye out for the most extreme characters and then ask yourself: Is that real? Is that person who he or she says he is? Cui bono, who profits, here from what they are saying or doing? Draw your conclusions (carefully!) and then act accordingly and completely within the law.” Video: Cavuto talks with Tea Party Organizers about infiltrations RULES: (Hat tip: San Antonio Tea Party) Tea Parties are non-partisan events. ALL who agree that the government is wasting far too much money are welcome, as long as they abide by the rules. RULE 1: No Violence We are not anarchists. We are concerned citizens using the freedoms secured by our nations founders and declared in the Bill of Rights to petition our government. Any who advocate, in general, any act of violence or other active civil disobedience will be told (not asked–TOLD!) to leave our reserved area. Any who advocate, in specific, any act of violence will be reported to the Police or to the US Secret Service, as appropriate. Our Founders gave us the Bill of Rights and we will use them. Talk of “battles” must be reserved to the context of “Battle of the Flowers” and “political battles.” We will act in a peaceful, lawful manner, period. PERIOD. Your alternative is to form your own protest, separate from ours. We have no problem with those who want to organize their own Tea Party. Good luck, and may God Bless your efforts. RULE 2: Be Polite We will not use profanity in our speeches, on our signs, or to any members of the press who might be present. While we will raise our voices with spirit when appropriate, we will deport ourselves in general with decorum that is respectful of the seriousness of the occasion. RULE 3: Be a Good Citizen We will be courteous and helpful to our fellow citizens. Should we see someone in need, whether they need a place to sit, medical attention, or just a friendly smile, we will ensure their needs are met in the best tradition of the American spirit. When we are done, we will all help ensure our Tea Party location is clean and ready for whomever should use it next. TIPS: Advice for Tea Party Organizers How to organize your own tea party protest Planning Guide for your Tea Party Signage samples, Downloadable PDF signs, 220+ Sign slogans (great ideas) MISC. Steve Vaus rewrites the hit song “We Must Take America Back”

IN CASE YOU MISSED THESE TEA PARTIES
Feb. 2009 NATIONWIDE TEA PARTIES
Nationwide Tea Parties, more tea parties		Oklahoma City Tea Party		San Diego Tea Party
3/21/09 ORLANDO TEA PARTY – approx. 6,000 patriots protested
click image for photos & videos
link: OrlandoTeaParty.com (Ht: MMalkin)
3/15/09 CINCINNATI TEA PARTY click image for report 5,000 patriots came		4/14/09 MISSOURI TEA PARTY Hat tip: GatewayPundit		4/15/09 MIAMI TEA PARTY more videos
MORE TEA PARTIES: – Missouri Tea Party – 4/29/09, more – Miami Tea Party – 4/19/09 – Miami Tea Party – 4/15/09 – Asheville Tea Party – 4/15/09 – Tea Parties in several cities – 4/15/2009 – July 4th, 2009 – Town halls against ObamaCare – Aug. 2009 – 912 March On Washington DC (Sept. 12, 2009):

9/12/09 DC Tea Party (Photos & Videos) Agenda		Tea Party Express Bus Tour I 8/28/2009 – 9/12/2009: The Tea Party Express bus tour hosted tea parties in cities across the nation.		9/12/2009 Massive gathering of liberty-loving Americans sent strong message to Congress and the president to stop the current slide to socialism. 912DC.org

10/17/09 Media Protest ‘Can You Hear Us Now Tired of the media bias, patriots took their messages to the media at their stations’ front step.		10/26/09 Tea Party greets Obama, Pelosi, Reid in Miami		Tea Party Express Bus Tour II October 25 – November 11 Tea Parties welcomed them at every stop

11/5/2009 Washington Rally Against Pelosi Health Care More info

12/15/09 AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST OBAMACARE: Code Red Rally – Washington, DC NEXT MIAMI TEA PARTY Protest Against ObamaCare – January 9, 2010

HOW THE 2009 TEA PARTIES STARTED The 2009 tax revolt movement started in February 2009:
2/16/09 Protesting the Porkulus “Stimulus” Bill, 2/16/09 Seattle Tea Party, more photos		2/17/2009 Denver Anti-Stimulus Rally		2/19/2009 Rick Santelli of CNBC called for a “Chicago Tea Party” leading the charge for calls to revolt against the Obama Administration’s mortgage bailout plan

THE ORIGINAL TEA PARTY (BOSTON, 1773)
Original Tea Party in Boston, 1773	Boston, December 20, 1773: “A number of brave & resolute men, determined to do all in their power to save their country from the ruin which their enemies had plotted, in less than four hours, emptied every chest of tea on board the three ships commanded by the captains Hall, Bruce, and Coffin, amounting to 342 chests, into the sea!! without the least damage done to the ships or any other property. The matters and owners are well pleas’d that their ships are thus clear’d; and the people are almost universally congratulating each other on this happy event.”
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