On his 100th day in office, Obama said he would like to have a “serious” discussion” about how the federal government can rein in spending and meet its long term obligations.

“I know you’ve been hearing all these arguments about, oh, ‘Obama is just spending crazy,’” the president said at a town hall event in Arnold, Missouri Wednesday. “Well, let me make a point. Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit — that wasn’t from my — that wasn’t me.”

“Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis — financial crisis since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks.”

First: Inheriting a mess is no excuse for making it worse. If a car is going full steam towards a brick wall, you shouldn’t hit the accelerator.

Second: Uniform consensus among what economists? The same economists that got us into this mess? The same economists that told our economy was great the last few years? How about we start talking to the economists that warned us that we were heading toward an economic downturn, rather than the bipartisan cheer leading economists that uniformly believe the government must manipulate the money supply and that government intervention is required to “stabilize” the economy. Is it possible that the economist parrots we hear on TV are all in agreement and in the public eye because the politicians in Washington don’t want us to hear from economists that have more faith in free markets and free people?

Reducing our arguments to “eliminating programs to those who need them” and “cutting taxes on the rich” is the same demeaning political crap that you said you would rise above in bringing hope and change to the White House. Well, Mr. President, I hope you actually address some real concerns from the Tea Partiers, like where in the Constitution does Washington have the authority to use our money to support failing big business? When you were teaching constitutional law, did you skip a lecture on the 10th Amendment? Mr. President, how do you promote freedom, responsibility, respect for others, and the kind of serious debate you claim we lack, if our government tells the people that we cannot take care of ourselves, that we need you to fix all of our problems, and that if only we went back to sleep and left our wallets on the nightstand, you intellectuals in Washington will fix our problems with just a few more government programs? Addressing these questions would be a nice change.

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The Boston Tea Party was an act of direct protest by American Colonists demanding representation in the British Government. They became known as the original patriots.

America’s Tea Party of 2009 will reinvigorate that American and Patriotic spirit; one that demands respect for individual rights and property. As the bailouts spiral out of control, we are forced to fund failed banks. With foreclosures on the rise, we are made the collateral of reckless spending. And, when the bills come due, the IRS knocks on the door of “self-responsibility”.

ENOUGH!

America is the land of opportunity. To succeed AND to Fail. Without consequences, what is our incentive to learn? What is our incentive to produce? On July 4, 2009, those that ask nothing from the government but the protection of our inalienable right to succeed, will gather in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston , and everywhere in between across the country in an historic act of direct protest.

Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism. - Thomas Paine

Submitted by Paul Williams, this video characterizes the sentiments and desire for self-responsibility. It’s time to break the silence!

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FOXNews wrote an article which draws comparison between the 1976 film Network and Rick Santelli’s call for a Chicago Tea Party.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

In the 1970s, that phrase was made popular by the movie “Network,” where anchor Howard Beale parodied what TV news might become. In 2009, millions of us are mad as hell –- not at TV but at politics. Americans are mad because most of us play the game the right way and if we do, we are now the ones who lose.

Ordinary Americans try to do the right thing, just like Spike Lee told us. We get up, we go to work, raise our families, obey the law and pay our debts. We are mellower versions of the Clint Eastwood character in “Gran Torino.” We just want to be left alone –- by government especially.

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Draw your own conclusions:

Peter Schiff puts a smackdown on CNN WorldWide:

“You think bureaucrats in Washington know what kind of cars Americans want to buy? Socialism doesn’t work. Centralized government planning doesn’t work.”

“Our economy is in trouble because we are suffering the consequences of too much government.”