12,500
That’s the number of people at the NYC TeaParty yesterday by NYPD estimates.
2049 locations across the USA. People throughout this country protesting the fact that elected officials have forgotten there’s no such thing as Government Money. It’s YOUR money.
It was an incredible event. Despite the protestations of the media it was starkly nonpartisan (frankly my expectation is that most of my readers won’t believe that.)
The spending and the bailouts weren’t ok when Bush did it and it’s not ok now. The fact that That One is taking federal spending and turning it into an extreme sport almost aside.
Two things would go miles:
- Term limits on all elected positions in federal government.
- Remove “auto deduction” of taxes entirely from paychecks. Make people save the money and write the check.
Ya know… I expected to have a lot to say about it in a blog post, but I don’t. I made a lot of really good connections with people.
Anyway I’m busy following up with them. Coverage is better elsewhere, go read there.
UPDATE:Oh yeah… an interesting metric. I took an informal poll of 43 people. 35 of them had never been to a protest or rally of any kind before. THAT’S important.
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