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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:13 PM
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"We're going to be a voice for everyone else"..FL Teabaggers will counter protest teachers.
That's right. The Florida teabaggers are going to have a counter rally when Florida teachers and other public employees gather in Tallahassee March 8.

They are going to outshout and outdo the public employees every way they can. And the most absurd thing is that they have no clue why they are doing it!

Can you imagine staging a counter protest and saying you are going to be a voice for "everyone else"?
I hope the legislators understand that these folks stand for nothing in particular.

So they are actually admitting they are doing it to stand for everyone else but public employees and their rights?

They in effect admit they stand for nothing in specific.

I really do hate to link to the Sunshine State News. It's where Brent Bozell, Pat Buchanan, and Charles Krauthammer spread their right wing views.

But it is another view of why the Florida teabaggers will have a protest...even though they don't have a clue what they are about.

Keep in mind this is a site for right wing columnists.

Tea Parties to Counter Public Employee Unions

As Florida teachers and other government workers lay plans for Wisconsin-style protests, a tea party coalition announced it will stage its own rally on March 8 in Tallahassee. Taxpayer and tea party groups say they will rally under a "Save Our State" banner at the Capitol on the opening day of the 2011 Legislature.

"We're going to be a voice for everyone else," said event organizer Robin Stublen.

Reaching out to 130 tea party and 9/12 groups around the state, Stublen said the consortium supports Gov. Rick Scott's efforts to reform the public pension program and cut state spending by $5 billion.


Note the "warning" given to teachers and the words about the PTA. The PTA has buses ready to take kids to the capitol that day.

But rallies -- even those sponsored by organizations as seemingly benign as the PTA -- risk a backlash from the public if they are seen as using children as "human shields" to promote a union agenda.

A Tallahassee rally of 8,000 to 10,000 could incur the wrath of parents and taxpayers if too many teachers and government workers go AWOL that day.


Sounds like the teachers are ready to risk the backlash.





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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:17 PM
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1. The tea party sheep are being sent there
......to draw all the MSM attention away from the real protesters.

Thats their real reason for being there.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:19 PM
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2. I know. They did the same thing about the bullet train rally in Tampa..
They got all the media attention and outshouted and got ugly.

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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:25 PM
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3. Will they be carrying guns too?
:shrug:
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:33 PM
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4. Probably. They can't go anywhere without their steel penises.
Because they don't have real ones.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:33 PM
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5. "everyone else"?? - No thanks!
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:20 PM
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6. It was such an odd statement. Says so much about them.
And the fact that they do not know what to believe.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:30 PM
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7. True. And they just keep trying to act like their absurd views are mainstream
I just don't buy it even if the media seems to.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 05:43 PM
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8. The local news showed them during their anti-bullet train rally...
that was designed to counter those who supported it. The ones they interviewed just did not want any kind of public transportation, or public anything.

They were also anti-everything else.

It's truly scary.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 05:45 PM
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9. k n r
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 05:54 PM
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10. Here is what they are fighting for! Let them stand proudly!
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 05:54 PM by Generic Other
They are fighting to push down poor, disadvantaged, distressed, hungry kids who need every resource, not fewer and fewer. This is America, not Somalia. We don't do half enough to meet the needs of the young people of this country.

They want to reinforce the notion for working class kids that they are worthless, expendable and on their own. They hope to deny them any enrichment opportunity, ignore their emotional needs, and deny them adequate healthcare and basic necessities like food and shelter. The same kids they expect to fight their wars.

To do nothing but try and tear down the country and its people.

That makes them feel exceptional.
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:20 PM
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11. Did they say whether or not
they'd be wearing their traditional hoods and robes?
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MyOwnPeace Donating Member (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:24 PM
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12. A rally?
Where were they when the Iraq war began. THAT'S what's made the economy what it is!
Why aren't they leading a parade to get the tax levels back to where they were when Clinton was prez? We KNOW what THAT would do for our deficit, right?
Their thinking - it reminds me of the joke Richard Belzer did years ago on HBO. He was reporting that Ronald Reagan had gone to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for removal of polyps from his colon - this taking place just after he had treatment for skin cancer on his nose.
Belzer's comment: "Well, now I guess we all know where he goes to do his thinking!" :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:58 PM
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13. And they'll be there with their misspelled signs,chanting "we don't need no edjumicashin!"
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Zephie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:00 PM
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14. I've been wondering if I'll be camping out on the Capitol
looks like I will be. =|
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BrotherLove Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:10 PM
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15. Remember when some one gives you an ultimatum, always take the "or else" to win
BTW, 70,000 protesters showed up in WI vs 3,000 Tea Baggers. So I'm really scared Tea Baggers.
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:16 PM
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16. I did not know that number of tea baggers.
Thanks for that. There's no comparison. I worry in FL though, because there are so many who think they are cool for being a tea bagger. They don't know what they believe in, but they really believe it a lot. }(
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roxiejules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:43 PM
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17. Tea Partiers: Sign Up Here!
Feel free to get this document and fill it out and send it to the proper authorities. Click on the document and then print it out. You can also use the online form for quicker results!

Stop My Benefits:

http://stopmybenefits.com/site /




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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:46 PM
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18. Tea baggers bring it on - lets take it to the streets :)
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chervilant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:31 PM
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19. k & r, yet again, mad,
and I'm soooooo very thankful we have activists of your caliber fighting the assault on public education!
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roxiejules Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:39 PM
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20. Cause you would rather subsidize the Billionaires?
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 11:58 PM by roxiejules
Quote from the Tea Partiers:

"Public employees are in honorable professions, but they are not so important that the workers at McDonald's or Wal-Mart should have to help pay and subsidize their retirements," Stublen said.


Note to Tea Partiers: The workers at McDonald's or WalMart are most likely on FOOD STAMPS cause they don't receive a living wage.
Who pays for the food stamps for them?? (Hint: Middle class workers with decent wages and benefits)



:think:

How about call 'patriots' like the Tea Party Founders, The Koch Brothers and family and ask them about how much they contribute??!!

:think:



Oxbow Corp. president William Koch, relocated his privately held alternative-energy and technology company to Florida so he wouldn't have to pay corporate income taxes.


Oil man William Ingraham Koch has a fortune estimated at $3.4 billion, a $24-million mansion and a West Palm Beach energy company, Oxbow Corp., with $4.5 billion in estimated sales last year.


87 percent of Florida's estimated 1.5-million businesses are NOT REQUIRED to file a state income tax form, MUCH LESS PAY THE TAX.


Of the 238,455 companies that did file a return in 2001, nearly 90 percent paid NOTHING. And 98 percent of the taxes came from just 2.2 percent of the corporate filers.




Koch acknowledges the quality of Florida's public schools is a problem. But he's dead set against making companies like Oxbow pay a Florida income tax.







http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_William-Koch_J4JE.html

http://www.forbes.com/profile/william-koch/gallery


http://www.sptimes.com/2003/12/28/State/Big_boys_profit_on_mo.shtml

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2009/10/bill_koch_cape_wind_tax_breaks.php



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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 02:24 PM
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21. "Everyone else" = Tea 'tards?
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Lucky 13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 02:26 PM
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22. We're "those other guys"! Whatever you are for, we're against it!
:eyes:
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