Tea Party Patriots | State of The Union Response




Patriot Call to Action \| Declaration of Health Care Independence \| Fiscal Reform Amendment Press Conference, You're Invited \| State of the Union Viewing Events \| About Us \| Pledge Support Patriot Call to Action: As you may have read, our elected leaders continue their never-ending efforts to pass some form of a government takeover of health care. Though the public has spoken clearly and told the politicians to kill the bill, they are still not listening. Amazingly, and despite overwhelming public disapproval, they are now discussing a second stimulus bill. And to top it off, they are now working to increase the national debt ceiling yet again. Our national debt is already intolerable and now the irresponsible politicians in Congress want to increase it by $1.9 trillion to $14.3 trillion! Our country is crippled by debt, yet our elected officials seem unable to get a handle on their fiscal obesity, and it appears they are committed to a course of national economic suicide. Tea Party Patriots stand for fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. None of the proposed bills even remotely fall within our core values. Government taking over our health care is certainly not smaller, limited government. Increasing spending and increasing debt is fiscally irresponsible. An ever-expanding government waistline, especially during a time of fiscal crisis is the height of irresponsibility, and the American people understand this. When will those in power learn to be responsible? When the tea party movement began last February, the President insisted the stimulus must be passed to prevent unemployment from going above 8%. Today, the unemployment rate is at 10%. Eighty percent of Americans know a friend, family member, or neighbor who has lost their job. Contrary to the disingenuous statements of politicians, the stimulus is not working. We knew it wouldn’t work last February when we went out to the first tea parties on February 27th to protest a government out of control. We stood firm in the face of constant attacks from those in power, and now we must continue working to prevent the government from taking over more of our lives and being even more irresponsible with our tax money. Taking leadership is a patriot trait. Patriots across the nation are demanding that we no longer simply react to what the majority in government are doing to fatten the nation's debt and destroy our country's health care system. You have demanded we be proactive, and to that end, we are asking Tea Party Patriots to do several things on Wednesday, January 27th, the day of the President's State of the Union speech. Declaration of Health Care Independence (Note: Read The Declaration At The Page Top) More than 61% of Americans say it is time to drop government takeover of health care. Congressmen Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and Louie Gohmert have created a Declaration of Health Care Independence and asked for input from our Local Coordinators as they developed it. Tea Party Patriots is endorsing the Declaration of Health Care Independence. Please show your support by signing the pledge. Fiscal Reform Amendment (Note: Read The Amendment At The Page Top) The debt ceiling has increased from approximately $10.62 trillion to $12.33 trillion in the last year. Now Congress is considering raising the limit to $14.3 trillion! Instead of increasing the debt ceiling, Senator Tom Coburn has the novel idea to cut spending and leave the debt ceiling alone. The government has gotten fat for years off the American taxpayer by creating more and more programs that do exactly the same thing. For example, there are more than 14 programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education related to foreign exchanges and designed to increase opportunities for students to study abroad. This amendment to the currently proposed federal debt increase will put the federal government on a massive diet by reducing redundant programs, releasing unspent funds to pay down the debt, thereby saving the taxpayers billions of dollars each year. It will cut spending by $120 billion, consolidate 640 duplicative government programs, and prevents politicians from pursuing the fiscal obesity plaguing our nation. Please show your support by signing the pledge. You're Invited to the Tea Party Patriots State of the Union Response Press Conference For those within driving distance of DC and those who can afford to fly to DC, we invite you to attend the Tea Party Patriots Press Conference on Wed. January 27th at 1 p.m. at the National Press Club (529 14th Ave NW, Washington, DC 20045) when we announce our endorsement of the Declaration and encourage our elected officials and all Patriots to pledge their support. State of the Union Viewing Events The power of Tea Party Patriots is acknowledging that each member can determine locally what works best for their group. You can issue your own response to the State of the Union. Invite your family, friends, and employees to watch President Obama deliver the State of the Union address. Also, invite the local media to attend. After hearing the speech, issue your own response to the State of the Union: Post a video on YouTube, call into our Blog Talk Radio Show, post a note on Facebook, and create a blog post to put on your website. After responding, ask your family, friends, and neighbors to sign the pledge to support both the Declaration of Health Care Independence and the Government Spending Reduction Amendment. Next, call your Congressman and Senators and ask them to sign the pledge in support of the Declaration of Health Care Independence and the Government Spending Reduction Amendment. About Tea Party Patriots Ordinary citizens reclaiming America's founding principles. Tea Party Patriots is a national grassroot organization that provides logistical, educational, networking and other types of support to over 1000 community based tea party groups around the country. Tea Party Patriots national coordinators understand that we are mere servants to the grassroot groups. We understand that we do not set the course for our member groups, as they have developed their own vision and plan for how to address the local and national challenges that they are facing. 2010 is shaping up to be a year of historic proportions, and we have been here since the beginning, and we are here for the long haul. We understand that there will be many challenges along the way, and just like you we are ready to fight. So lets fight together! Here at Tea Party Patriots, we truly believe that YOU are the center of the movement. Declaration of Health Care Independence In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution, We the People reject the imposition upon us of a new, Washington-controlled system of government-run health care. We demand Constitutional protection of the right to make our own health decisions and our own health care choices free of government denials, bureaucratic red-tape, and greater intergenerational debt. A Washington takeover of American health care will ___Deny fundamental personal and economic liberties and indisputably violate the Principle of Limited Government as established by the Constitution; ___Impose increased costs and taxes upon individuals, families, and businesses, as well as taxpayers at the federal, state, and local levels; ____Irreparably cripple the American economy, at the cost of jobs, businesses, productivity, and quality of life; ~Create an inescapable new tax by imposing individual and employer mandates; ____Institutionalize a massive, ever-expanding federal bureaucracy that is impersonal and impractical; ___Empower bureaucrats to interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, undermine the quality of care, limit choice, and increase the cost of health care. We have appealed to the decency of the elected majority to respect the rights of all Americans, but their leaders have been deaf to the Voice of the People. We are appalled by their cavalier disregard of the Constitution and of the demands of the People. We are repulsed by their blatant political bribes and kickbacks. We, therefore, the People and Representatives of the United States of America, do solemnly Publish and Declare that health care reform, as a matter of principle must ___Protect as inviolate the vital doctor-patient relationship; ___Reject any addition to the crushing national debt heaped upon all Americans; ___Improve, rather than diminish, the quality of care that Americans enjoy; ___Be negotiated publically, transparently, with genuine accountability and oversight, and be free from political favoritism; ___Treat private citizens at least as well as political officials; ___Protect taxpayers from compulsory funding of abortion; ___Reject all new mandates on patients, employers, individuals, or states; ___Prohibit expansion of taxpayer funded health care to those unlawfully present in the United States; ___Guarantee Equal Protection under the law and the Constitution; ___Empower, rather than limit, an open and accessible marketplace of health care choice and opportunity. Signature: Show Your Support By Clicking "SUPPORT THESE INITIATIVES" on the home page. Fiscal Responsibility Amendment The debt ceiling has increased from approximately $10.62 trillion to $12.33 trillion in the last year. Now Congress is considering raising the limit to $14.3 trillion! Instead of increasing the debt ceiling, Senator Tom Coburn has the novel idea to cut spending and leave the debt ceiling alone. The government has gotten fat for years off the American taxpayer by creating more and more programs that do exactly the same thing. For example, there are more than 14 programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education related to foreign exchanges and designed to increase opportunities for students to study abroad. This amendment to the currently proposed federal debt increase will put the federal government on a massive diet by reducing redundant programs, releasing unspent funds to pay down the debt, thereby saving the taxpayers billions of dollars each year. It will cut spending by $120 billion, consolidate 640 duplicative government programs, and prevents politicians from pursuing the fiscal obesity plaguing our nation. Signature: Show Your Support By Clicking "SUPPORT THESE INITIATIVES" on the home page.

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