We’re All Tea Partiers Now!
We’re All Tea Partiers Now!
From the LRC website: “[A] new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.”
In an age when government seems incapable of doing anything with the support of a majority of Americans, getting 62% of Americans to agree on anything is quite an accomplishment. Unfortunately for the powers in Washington, this poll is anything but good news.
234 years ago, a group consisting of much less than 62% of (then) American colonists declared “ That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” (Emphasis mine). A quick review of the list of grievances that followed reads like a commentary on our contemporary TEA parties. Taxed Enough Already is no longer just a slogan, it is becoming a rallying cry.
Read more of the Examiner article here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-53966-MiamiDade-County-Libertarian-Examiner~y2010m7d19-Were-all-TEA-partiers-now
For all of Larry Warrick’s articles on Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/x-53966-MiamiDade-County-Libertarian-Examiner
Larry’s older blog can be found here: http://www.nolanchart.com/author87.html
