The Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Inspired by the Boston Tea Party and the calls for tea boycotts and the resolutions of the first North Carolina Provincial Congress, 51 women, led by Penelope Barker, met on October 25, 1774, and signed a statement of protest vowing to give up tea and boycott other British products "until such time that all acts which tend to enslave our Native country shall be repealed." Debt Relief

Battles versus War

We who are poor and the working class will never win the battles. We do not have the money, clout, gold, or juice to win. Battles are not the objective. Heaven is our goal. To be in heaven means we have won the war.

Easter is the greatest calendar day in the year. Easter is our living after we die. Following the words of Jesus will guarantee a place in heaven. That will be the war won and prize.

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For decades now the GOP has gained working-class votes by appealing to a combination of pride and insecurity. You are the hard-working, God-fearing, patriotic salt-of-the-earth - the very opposite of those liberal professors, hippes and yuppies who despise you and everything you hold sacred. You are being taxed to support shiftless blacks and Mexicans who are indulged by the Democratic Party.

Well, the GOP has taken off its mask and clearly shown its contempt for ALL members of the working class and poor - socially conservative, hard-working, patriotic whites included. However, it is a real fight to get this discussion into the mainstream media. Democratics are noted for trying to appeal to the intellect (economic interest) while Republicans appeal to emotions (religion, patriotism and euphemistic appeals to "race"). They now have a very emotional issue - The Republican Party despises you and wants to take away your rights - it has already done so in many states. The GOP believes you have no rights a rich man or corporation needs to respect.

Will Democrats use this advantage? A few will, but their biggest liability is Obama. When the Democratic base and angry, former Republicans go into battle against the GOP, Obama is missing in action. If you are a soldier or police officer and your comrade will not back you up when you are under attack, you will probably get killed. That's Obama. He will look the other way. Maybe he's thinking about a corporate job after he leaves office. However, the USA will be fascist by then. Fascism is preceded by the failure of liberal elites and representative government. The fool will be in the concentration camps with the rest of us. The barbarians are at the gate and we have Chamberlain as our leader.

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Universal one-payer (and I have no problem with it being medicare-for-all) is THE only answer. We're the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal healthcare. And it costs less. Insurance companies need to be out of our equation. I've heard (BS) that people don't want the government deciding what care they can have. I have been covered by medicare in the past. I did not have to go to a primary physician for a referral. I did not have to ask if this or that would be covered. On the other hand, I have had friends get their doctor recommended treatment be denied by insurance companies (this resulted in her having 2 surgeries instead of just the one that was requested--the requested one was done second after the first lesser approved surgery was not adequate to fix the problem). It is insurance companies that often dictate what treatment is allowable or deny claims outright. $500-$1000 for 1 or 2 people to pay monthly for medical insurance which won't cover things 100% anyway is criminal. Especially in light of the almost flatline increase in low and middle average incomes over the past 30-40 years while the top incomes have skyrocketed. As an RN, I would remark at increased prices and charges over the years. I would be told that the costs of everything were going up. My response was always, "well, my salary isn't!" . And let me add, that was not because I was an inefficient or poor employee.

To fix our healthcare is to completely overhaul the entire system. Get rid of the insurance companies, regulate the pharmaceutical industry (ever seen those emails where the price of producing one pill is compared to the price a consumer has to pay? seen the latest salaries and bonuses of pharmaceutical CEO's? buy a piece of plastic tubing for home use, buy the same tubing as bona fide medical equipment for MUCH MUCH more. There's a lot that could be done. The country just needs the will to do it.

And while I was distressed at the outcome of Obama's attempt to change healthcare, I believe he did want coverage for all and a one-payer system. I believe the country was so behind him when he was elected because most of us wanted the same changes. Our representative government also needs an overhaul. The compromises suck. They were compromises so the Big Corps could preserve obscene profits. As long as corporatocracy is in charge, the common good of our nation and people will largely be ignored.

But I do not blame the general public for that. In the nineties, when the electric car was made, and was available for LEASE only and only in California, the waiting list for one of them became longer and longer. GM recalled them, had them crushed in Arizona, sold the patent for the battery to an oil company and started manufacturing the Hummer. Carter warned of us oil dependence in the 70's, put solar panels on the Whitehouse, and Reagan had them removed. I blame completely the greed of the oil industry, and look where it's led.

Early in the 2000's, another electric car came on the market. Called the Tesla, it was priced at 100k. Woulda bought one if I could. 50k down and still a long wait. Back in 1983, my best friend drove a VW Rabbit diesel. She got 50 miles to the gallon. Think I'm impressed with today's hybrids? Absolutely not. We've had and have the technology. The only industry to gain if we drive gas guzzlers is Big Oil. No wonder electric cars and cars with much higher gas mileage have had no chance to thrive here. No wonder ethanol and biofuel are under attack. And the nerve that jerk Bush had to say that WE were addicted. WE had no choice. And more and more it seems to me that we still don't. We all would like a clean environment, untainted food (neither pesticided or GMO'd), a job that at least lets us support a family, good schools and health care for all (the universal healthcare in all other industrialized countries costs less overall than our really bad system here which is just really good for the insurance industry).

BUT, as long as corporations buy self serving legislation through their lobbying, and as long as the general public is limited to mainstream media, and as long as disinformation is spread through 10 second sound bites and the public is not made aware of their options or collective strength, and as long as war crimes or financial industry crimes go unpunished, and as long as elections can be stolen, and as long as the welfare of the entire population is not taken into consideration, the future of this country does not look good. At all.

With each passing day my energy diminishes and I tire more easily. I will go to my grave firm in the belief that the United States of Mortal Sin and the Anti-Christ are synonymous.

The United States of Mortal Sin is attacking nations for their natural resources. We are even worse than Nazi Germany. Cheney's energy policies will dominate fascist-Nazi America's stinking thinking!

Next Requirement? Tatoos and a star on the sleeve for recipients of public assistance.

Let America be America again!

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How about screening all REPUBLICAN/TEA -PARTY politicians for possible ties to ECONOMIC TERRORISM!

dianhow #6 is right we all must speak-out ,fight ,call your representatives. It's going to be a long siege standing up to those who currently control the megalithic message of deceit. This battle can be won, history shows that empires at the point of absolute corruption do fall. In our case the republican/tea party represents that doomed oligarchy. Fragmented Barbarian rule was the outcome of empire failure for the western romans in the 5th century AD. Let's make sure our end result is democratic socialism, a true "we the people" functional democracy!