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		<title>Democracy in Action</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dallas TeaParty was a fantastic event this morning. Part of a 50-city initiative discussed further at the Nationwide Chicago Tea Party page. It was a great example of traditional democracy in action. Regular people from all walks of life concerned about out-of-control spending and the mountain of debt we&#8217;re putting on our kids.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Dallas TeaParty was a fantastic event this morning. Part of a 50-city initiative discussed further at the <a href="http://nationwidechicagoteaparty.com">Nationwide Chicago Tea Party page</a>. It was a great example of traditional democracy in action. Regular people from all walks of life concerned about out-of-control spending and the mountain of debt we&#8217;re putting on our kids.</p>
<p>A Dallas Young Republicans representative &#8220;livetweeted&#8221; the event. Here are her observations (in reverse chronological order):</p>
<p># Things are closing down. Looking forward to pictures of the event</p>
<p># 660 AM is talking to Ken.</p>
<p># WFAA Live on TV saying dozens were here when there were 100s. (PS I&#8217;m in black and red on my phone).</p>
<p># A lady just walked by with tea bag earrings</p>
<p># Each person is taking their page of the bill and dunking it in a huge aquarium full of tea</p>
<p># We are now handing each person a page of the stimulus bill</p>
<p># &#8220;We want to send a signal to our legislators. We can&#8217;t to increase our national debt twenty percent in 1 year.&#8221; </p>
<p># Thank you Santelli for speaking up #tcot</p>
<p># Repeal or Retire! </p>
<p># &#8220;We&#8217;re so busy working that we have let congress decide the easiest way to get elected is to buy our votes with our money.&#8221; </p>
<p># @jamesdickey speaking next </p>
<p># We&#8217;re mad. Its the Tea Party &#8220;We&#8217;re all mad here.&#8221; </p>
<p># Sign: taxation WITH representation sucks too </p>
<p># EMail dallasteaparty@gmail.com if you want to get involved </p>
<p># &#8220;We need to organize at a precinct level.&#8221; </p>
<p># &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a check already written out to the person who is going to make a difference.&#8221; &#8211; Ken from Reagan Coalition </p>
<p># We&#8217;re gonna stay on this, stay in touch and change things. </p>
<p># We need to make this our new hobby. Taking care of our country needs to be priority. </p>
<p># Sign: I want to have a job when I grow up.</p>
<p># Currenty trends are not sustainable &#8211; from the US Treasury</p>
<p># Sign: don&#8217;t steal my piggy bank </p>
<p># Sign: No Obamanomics </p>
<p># Sign: screw green </p>
<p># America is 10 trillion in debt </p>
<p># &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I can raise children that will be more prosperous than I am.&#8221; </p>
<p># Ken just got up to talk. He says he&#8217;s a bitter American. </p>
<p># Repeal or Retire! </p>
<p># 30 million for salt grass mouse study in San Fran (Nancy someone?) </p>
<p># 8 billion for a high speed rail from Disney land to Vegas </p>
<p># 4.6 million for oyster habitat </p>
<p># 350 thousand for climate control research got major boos and oinks </p>
<p># Someone&#8217;s dog agrees that no one should have signed the stimulus without reading it. </p>
<p># &#8220;Obama says he understands. Let&#8217;s make sure he understands.&#8221; </p>
<p># &#8220;No more victim mentality. We will empower the people&#8221; </p>
<p># &#8220;The Texas conservatives won&#8217;t stand by anymore. Liberals can&#8217;t use fear anymore. Down with socialism&#8221;</p>
<p># Sign: no sub prime on America&#8217;s future </p>
<p># Sign: I drink tea, not KOOLAID </p>
<p># Yay TopConservativesOnTwitter (TCOT), shout out to you! </p>
<p># We are talking about how none of us have ever been to a protest before, but we&#8217;re angry now.</p>
<p># Sign: Atlas is shrugging</p>
<p># 7-year-old girl with a sign that says &#8220;don&#8217;t make me pay&#8221; just led us all in saying the pledge </p>
<p># @Jenfidel estimating 300 people </p>
<p># From the discussions: PORK is our 4 letter word. </p>
<p># @ziptheusa yeah, a ton of cameras, and at noon channel 8 is coming </p>
<p># Signs: Cut the pork</p>
<p># Signs: USA &#8211; over-stimulated</p>
<p># Signs: Don&#8217;t tread on me (lol) Flags that say that also. </p>
<p># Signs: stop stealing from my kids</p>
<p># Signs: Revolt against socialism</p>
<p># Some of the signs:WHY penalize success and reward failure?</p>
<p># At the #teaparty, already got a good turn out. We&#8217;ll be live tweeting the whole thing </p>
<p>For pictures and more on the event, see the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=66053531971&#038;ref=mf">Facebook event page</a>. </p>
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