“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another … a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
That’s how our Founding Fathers, with special thanks to Thomas Jefferson, began the Declaration of Independence. You can feel the sense of urgency in their voices. It was time for them to make plain and make public why they could no longer abide by the policies and practices of their rulers.
Tomorrow, April 15, Americans around the country, feeling something of the same urgency, will turnout at town halls and other spots around the country. And they will declare their grievances: that the government is getting too big, too intrusive and spending too much.
That spending explosion will triple the national debt, cause a return of inflation, devalue the dollar, erode international confidence in the American economy, and necessitate huge new taxes that will cripple the economy for our children and our children’s children.
And so tax day “tea parties” are popping up around the country.
Not very often have average Americans been so upset and so energized over government profligacy and malfeasance. Yes, starting with the Bush administration, but exploding under President Obama and the current Congress.
And it’s the public that’s spontaneously reacting; there’s no rich person or organization guiding the effort. No equivalents of George Soros or Michael Moore pushing the Tax Day Tea Parties from behind the scenes. There are no union heads mobilizing their employees, no activist groups like the far-left ACORN orchestrating the events.
The Tax Day Tea Parties are true grassroots efforts with no central oversight, control or coordination—and so all of them are different. They are spontaneous responses from real people who fear the country is being taxed and spent into third-world status.
Elected officials better take note. The public is mad and getting madder with each new trillion dollars Congress thinks it can hand out to the rich and poor alike.
This is participatory democracy at its best. And our guess is that this is just the beginning.