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Call to Action

Interesting blogger idea - "The Brevity Act - Time for a 28th Amendment" suggestion to limit legislation to 2000 words - unlike the stimulus bill, cap and trade bill, etc. Share it.

Buyer Beware! National retail sales tax or US VAT (Value-Added Tax) proposals

Restoring a Limited Federal Government - Only "we the people" can make it happen now. See "Tea Party Tactics" for our local action suggestions.

If you missed the nationwide Tax Day Tea Party protests with an estimated 600,000-800,000 people in over 800 cities on April 15, join us again on July 4.

Instead of apologizing to critics and tyrants for everything which America has done in the world before Obama decided to lecture all of us about how we should act to be good Americans, let's stand up for what we believe. Honor the veterans and others who have defended our Constitution and American values, instead of trying to find ways to work around them to advance their own power and social agenda.

We need to reconsider the direction of the Tea Party movement in the context of the latest moves in Congress to ram through budget legislation this year regardless of any opposition to it. Refer also to the Liberty for USA blog: "Turn up the heat on the Elite" for some initial thoughts about how to actually have a meaningful impact through local action.

May 16, 2009 - Dems' climate bill shy on tax credit help - Comment: Beware the American Clean Energy and Security Act - HR 2454 (pdf text). They changed some provisions to try to make it easier to ram through this new "cap and trade" policy without people recognizing the full harmful costs of it at first.

Action Alert: Pay attention to the "cap and trade" issue. A recent blog entry from Americans for Prosperity was elaborated on Fox New Blogs - Fox Forum to explain how this may turn out to be a very regressive $1.3 - $1.9 trillion tax (or more) - and that's just the first 8 year estimate of a 40 year plan for which the costs will keep rising over time. This will be a huge hidden tax burden on all Americans. Use our Conservative Search tool to find what other observers are saying on this topic, or use the Republican Governors, Senators, or House search tools to see what these officials are saying about it.

DIS Organizing for America - the drones who were sent out in March to seek blind pledges of loyal support for Obama's budget and agenda. As expected, they e-mailed millions of his campaign supporters to do this. Did any actually read the 2010 Budget (summary .pdf) they were allegedly endorsing? In any case, the Tax Day Tea Parties vastly outnumbered the pledges they gathered.

Are our veterans being played for suckers? Political games to push nationalized health care?

Action Alert: GIVE Act - thanks to Conservative Allies of PA for calling this to our attention! Look into the details of HR 1388, which expands "volunteer" service programs under federal government control. This was signed by Obama on April 22. Watch what they do through this federal intrusion into state and local issues through voluntary national service as a way to build their network of local social activists.

What about The 912 Project which Glenn Beck is promoting? Is it about him, or about you? He was very supportive of the Tax Day Tea Parties, including his broadcast from the one in San Antonio, after his prior skepticism about whether Americans were ready for this type of local volunteer initiative yet.

Where is the nationwide Chicago Tea Party taxpayer revolt going? Our own thoughts, suggestions.

Hundreds of people showed up for the first Chicago Tea Party taxpayer revolt in February. See our photos from the event and various news videos, news reports, and other links from many cities. On April 15, there were many thousands of people in Chicago, and in 750+ other cities.

The Chicago Tea Party. Thank you, Rick Santelli of CNBC. We chose to make it happen - now.

See the FreedomWorks commentary on the Obama budget proposal. List of objections.

Keep it simple. Send a clear message to Washington. If you do this, we will work to defeat you.

Invest in the America which you want to create. Cut your losses. Invest in limiting government.

"You will know their names. I will make them famous." Earmarks? Expose the whole bill.

Thanks to the NY Times and Karl Rove. Surprise yourself. Do your own 2008 election analysis.

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh for promoting his own stimulus plan, including the interesting link to the Heritage Foundation analysis of why tax reductions provide more stimulus than rebates.

Spammer in Chief - the rise of populism in America, and the Organizing for America initiative

Going Postal - Guess who wants to cut your service, but not price? Why am I not surprised?

Organize your own local conservative "Surge" strategy. Outperform the liberal insurgents.

Please choose to hang together, rather than to hang separately. Work with your friends.

Choose to become the awakening leaders of a "surge" in your local community and state.

Share your ideas as you achieve the success which you seek in your own lives and communities.

Don't focus on what distant politicians or others should do for you, or for your city, state, or country.

Focus on what you can do for yourselves today. Advance the cause of freedom where you live.

Honor the vision and sacrifices of those who have protected your freedoms for over 200 years.

Don't just complain about all of the problems you perceive. Choose to do something about them.

Be that shining beacon on the hill, the light of freedom and progress which cannot be hid.

America is the social network which has transformed the world from the bottom of the pyramid.

We lead as individuals who are free to choose how to work together as shared interest groups, as in business in competitive markets, to find and efficiently implement creative solutions to our common needs and aspirations. We don't redistribute private property more "fairly" through government social programs. We grow our economy through private initiatives, not public policy mandates and spending.

Think about it. We started as colonial outcasts and immigrants by choice. We left behind the imperial superpowers and nationalistic power struggles and conflicts of colonial or modern times. We chose to leave behind the predictable lives in our former societies, wherever they were in the world.

We chose to follow our American dream that, if given the freedom to do so, we could create much better lives for ourselves, and for our families, for many generations to come. We didn't come here to serve a more benevolent government. We took great personal risks to follow our own dreams, and to defend our freedoms vigorously against all threats, foreign or domestic, by those who were determined to rule over us for their own advantage. We the people created our own prosperity - not our government leaders.

We the people defended the cause of advancing our own freedom, as well as the freedom of many others. We delegated limited powers to our federal government to serve our common needs for such defense. We did not delegate the political authority to manipulate our economy and our personal lives.

We do not expect our public servants at any level of government to mandate how we should live our lives. We respect the responsibilities which we all share toward each other as free individuals with a great diversity of backgrounds and views about how to create the better future we seek.

This is not a partisan political "movement" to empower political leaders in Washington or elsewhere. This is not "against Obama", or against Democrats. It is for all Americans.

The vision is to help network the many groups of private individuals who have chosen freely to work together toward shared social goals by contributing their own efforts and resources. The metric for success isn't to amass large databases and donations. It is to help spread the ideas which have worked as local initiatives begin to achieve the better outcomes they are seeking.

This initiative is not to mobilize people nationally to advocate a particular policy position or change in government. It is to reawaken the power which we already have repeatedly proven can achieve great and enduring social progress when we work together as free individuals. That is the change we can really believe in - the change which we lead through our own actions in respectful cooperation with others.

We are not the loyal subjects of a powerful government which promises to spread the wealth more fairly. We are not the "loyal opposition", whining for attention and influence from the back bench. We do not covet more power in Washington. We want less power to be there.

We do not seek to control this country from the top down.

We already control it from the bottom up. We have for over 200 years.

The question before us is whether that revolutionary concept will long endure, or be abandoned. Will we concede defeat by these new insurgents, leave the country divided, and abandon this fight?

We the people are still in charge here. We have temporarily entrusted new leaders at the national level with the responsibility to support our progress. We must remain vigilant, not complacent, about the transfer of power and resources to our federal politicians, their appointees, and other civil servants. We the people still drive the economic progress and prosperity of this country, not the federal government.