While I am not referring to the Mad-Hatters tea party here, at the rate things are going lately it might as well be...feel free to insert your own choices of politicians & business leaders at the table...Having said that the Tea Party movement is picking up speed...regardless of if you are a fan or foe you may want to consider some quotes below...
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
"Delay is preferable to error."
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty".
"History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is".
These quotes belong to one Thomas Jefferson. He wrote them over 200 years ago. They sound like they were spoken yesterday. Is Thomas Jefferson the Great-Grandfather of the Tea Party movement? Would you call him a loon, a racist, a Nazi? It is our job to question government & for our government to properly inform us. Yes, there are matters of National Security that should be kept secret. However laws of the land should not be in 2,700 page bills that nobody can understand!!! Our officials are elected, not born into it. None of them are "The One" they are one of many. If they are not doing their job we can fire them. Regardless of your party affiliation keep that in mind this November. There are plenty on both sides of the aisle that need to go.
for more quotes from TJ... http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html
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