Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Tea Party signs from Madison

I have attended the tea party at Wisconsin's capitol building today and have quite a few notes to go through. I would hate to leave the day with no tea party posts, so I will share a few of the signs from the Madison party and get to the meat of the day tomorrow.
There were quite a few, I hope you enjoy them and my thanks to Mr. Paul Hopp who courteously assisted me when I couldn't see the names of the speakers on the display. The entire crowd, in my observation, was courteous and well behaved and I was strengthened by the many shows of consideration in the small things that I observed. But that's for tomorrow's post.
The Signs:
"I was the silent majority, but no longer"
"Please, government, stop helping me, I can't afford it anymore."
"Socialism is not stimulating."
"Lack of cents does not make Change."
"We are American Patriots."
"Restore the Republic, Abolish the income tax."
"This Congress = man made disaster."
"I'm your boss, here's your review-you suck!"
"Read the bill next time."
(Held by a little girl)"Stop spending the money-I haven't made it yet!"
"Stop spending my future."
"No taxation without representation"
"It's time to flush the Doylet"
"Congress, tighten your own belts"
"Print me a trillion while you're at it"

There were also several signs quoting the founding fathers, I'm just going to type up two of them here.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." ~Thomas Jefferson

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."~Thomas Jefferson

There were signs about socialism, taxes, spending, capitalism, recalling the governor-and in fact one group was circulating sign up sheets to recruit folks to get 50 signatures on a petition to recall the governor. There were clips of Mr. Doyle promising not to raise taxes and declaring (during the campaign -as I recall) "It's not that we tax too little, it's that we spend too much." There were signs with numbers, signs referencing the book "Atlas Shrugged". There were so many signs, I couldn't write them all down if I had all day.
I think the biggest sign, was the presence of 5000-8000 people at the state's capitol, on a week day, protesting the amount of debt to which our government has pledged our people. I hope our legislators were listening. From the news reports I saw after I got home, the MSM was not.

That's all for tonight except for a side note that Senator Liebham's proposal (see this post) is now officially before the legislature.

"But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. "~Job 12:3-4

4 comments:

Dr.D said...

My sign at our Tea Party in Dubuque said

STOP OBAMUNISM

I saw a number of good signs, and hears some really fine speakers. While the event was nominally about excessive spending and associated tax increases, it was very clear to me that people are plenty riled up about socialism in general, socialized medicine, loss of freedom, immigration, gun rights, etc. It was very encouraging.

Call Me Mom said...

It was much the same in Madison. I didn't post some of the signs because they were just crude or rude, but some of them were amusing nonetheless.

I didn't see any counter-protesters, but the folks we rode with saw four Acorn protesters that no one else would speak to.

Jules said...

My mom and I attended the Tea Party in St. Paul, MN. It was amazing! So many people coming together to protest the left-wing agenda and spending blitz of this administration - it was really encouraging that we aren't alone!

Our signs said,
Dude! Where's my country?

I'm the right-wing extremist the Department of Homeland Security warned you about.

and
Remember - 58 million people did NOT vote for him!

Call Me Mom said...

Very nice signs, Dr.D and Jules. I wanted to ber writing so I didn't have any signs. My favorite was "Where's MY stimulus? I want a pony" I didn't see that one until I was looking at videos of the event later on Youtube.