Galt Lines

Have you heard of the new political movement sweeping the U.S.?

It’s called a tea party, and it’s not about Earl Grey (hot or otherwise). It’s the kind made famous in Boston some three centuries ago when American colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest the British tea tax. This and other actions lead to the rallying cry, “No taxation without representation.”

Tea parties are back, and for the same reasons.

Here’s the scoop according to an article posted on WorldNetDaily:

Fed-up Americans mobilize: More than 150 tea parties
Patriots put blazing heat on Washington, rebuke reckless spending
Posted: March 15, 2009
9:50 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

A revolution is brewing as American patriots and free-market advocates unite in protest against out-of-control government spending – with a wildfire movement of more than 150 nationwide tea parties.

John M. O’Hara of The Heartland Institute is a member of New American Tea Party, a coalition of citizens and organizations concerned about reckless government spending, is helping coordinate a number of national tea party events.

“Our message is simple: ‘Bailing out’ reckless businesses and individuals is neither the burden of responsible, hard-working American taxpayers nor the role of government,” he told WND.

O’Hara said there is no question the United States is facing tough economic times, but he believes many politicians are not proposing serious solutions.

“The Congressional Budget Office and countless economists say that the recent ’stimulus’ packages will likely hinder, not help, our economy,” he said. “Tax cuts, not tax hikes and handouts, are the quickest, most efficient means of getting our economy back on track.”

O’Hara said legislators must listen to citizens who are tired of irresponsible policies so the nation can recover.

“It is time politicians heed the will of the American people and the clear signals coming from the financial sector: stop the excessive spending, cut taxes, and get out of the way. Only then will we unleash the resilient, entrepreneurial spirit of American’s that has made our nation great and which will propel us through this rough patch to more prosperous times ahead.

The New American Tea Party website states, “This isn’t a conservative or liberal thing. This is about government forking over billions of dollars, our money, to businesses that should have failed. This is about taking money from responsible people and handing it over to CEOs who squandered their own.”

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For the rest of the article — and a list of tea parties schedule coast to coast — visit the WorldNetDaily web site.

To learn how to participate, read the article titled, “How to Organize Your Own Tea Party” on the The Conservative Revolution web site.

Another good resource for Tea Party information is Michell Malkin’s blog.

The web site Real Clear Politics offers an article by Michelle Malkin titled “Going Galt”: America’s Wealth Producers Vs. Wealth Redistributors, in which she wrote:

Enough. In a word, that is the message of disgusted taxpayers fed up with the confiscatory policies of both parties in Washington. George Bush pre-socialized the economy with billion-dollar bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Barack Obama is pouring billions more down those sinkholes. It isn’t just the camel’s back that’s broken. His neck and four legs have all snapped, too.

Enough. Last Friday, thousands of Americans turned out to protest reckless government spending in the pork-laden stimulus package, the earmark-clogged budget bill, the massive mortgage-entitlement program and taxpayer-funded corporate rescues. Contrary to false left-wing blog smears that the hastily planned impromptu events were “Astro-turfed,” the crowds were packed with first-time grassroots activists. They were people with families and day jobs whose usual definition of “community organizing” involves neighborhood yard sales or their kids’ soccer matches. They were members of the silent majority who decided to be silent no more.

Enough. These “Tea Party” protests spanned the sunny Santa Monica pier to the icy streets of Chicago and Cleveland to rain-drenched Atlanta, overflowing the grounds of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, with massive turnouts in Greenville, S.C., and crowds of several hundred each in New York City and Washington, D.C., and all points in between. Like those who demonstrated before them in Seattle, Denver, Mesa, Ariz., and Overland Park, Kan., two weeks ago, the Tea Party participants held homemade signs that said it all: “Your mortgage is not my problem”; “Liberty: All the stimulus we need”; “No taxation without deliberation.”
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I love that phrase: “Goes Galt.”

But it’s true. Washington has waged war — just as Ayn Rand predicted a half century ago in her book Atlas Shrugged — on the people of the mind, on the producers, on those whose brains and brawn create the wealth in America.

Stay tuned. This movement appears to be gaining traction.