The original “Tea Party”, and Declaration of Independence were about being ruled by a “foreign” power using dictatorial powers, and NOT listening to the colonists pleas, and in many cases, self-interest protests. The “founders” were wealthy men, out indeed, for the majority, protecting their own self interests, which included keeping slaves and indentured servants, and paying as little in taxes, to ANYONE, as possible. Others of the founders, like Ben Franklin, with that silly post office, post roads, public libraries, volunteer fire departments, and other silly stuff to promote “the general welfare”, would be branded by today’s “TEA party” folks, as a raging communist.
What amazes me, and others here, about the most staunch “right wingers” on these posts is their total ignorance of the actual documents they claim supports their views, or actual history; not cited by Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, and others more dedicated to ideology, than fact.
The original “Tea Party”, and Declaration of Independence were about being ruled by a “foreign” power using dictatorial powers, and NOT listening to the colonists pleas, and in many cases, self-interest protests. The “founders” were wealthy men, out indeed, for the majority, protecting their own self interests, which included keeping slaves and indentured servants, and paying as little in taxes, to ANYONE, as possible. Others of the founders, like Ben Franklin, with that silly post office, post roads, public libraries, volunteer fire departments, and other silly stuff to promote “the general welfare”, would be branded by today’s “TEA party” folks, as a raging communist.
What amazes me, and others here, about the most staunch “right wingers” on these posts is their total ignorance of the actual documents they claim supports their views, or actual history; not cited by Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly, and others more dedicated to ideology, than fact.