Death, Taxes, and the Tea Party

The Media has been speculating on the death of the Tea Party.  Since Tea Partiers haven’t been doing any rallies, they assume that we must have run up the white flag.  Rest assured, Media, the Tea Party is alive, well, and busy.

Three years ago today, the rallying call went out to women at the Morristown Tea Party.  Three years later, women are a force to be reckoned with.  They no longer accept the second-class status assigned to them by the Liberal Progressives because they’re stay-at-home Moms. Some work; some don’t.  Those who don’t are in a unique position to help their Tea Party thrive.  It was the women of the Morristown Tea Party– the stay-at-home Moms – who did all the legwork in getting the first rally going.  They’re still at it, organizing and campaigning for lower taxes, and a smaller, accountable government.  Perhaps that’s why the Liberal Democrats fear them so.

Ann Romney is their heroine; someone just like them.  The Liberals sniff that she stayed at home because she and Mitt could afford the luxury. People as wealthy as the Liberals claim the Romneys are can also afford nannies.  But Ann raised her five sons herself. When they were first married, they were poor, and she has been battling multiple sclerosis and cancer while raising five boys.  Never underestimate the power of a Mom.

Generally, women aren’t, by nature, interested in politics.  But when it comes to their families, the economy is foremost on their minds and whatever affects their children’s and grandchildren’s future is sure to be of concern to them.  The stay-at-home Moms have the time and the motivation to get involved and protect the home front.  Even their working counterparts want a piece of the action.  Don’t mess with the Tea Party Moms.

We speakers weren’t supposed to discuss social issues at that rally.  For Moms, the social issues, such as education and women’s health, are of vital importance and matter very much.  The organizers instructed the speakers to stick to the more manly issues of taxes, constitutional purity, and limited government.  Those are not strictly male issues, of course, but the social issues are closer to home for women and more likely to get their attention. In any case, the notorious indoctrination of our children in our educational system should be of paramount concern to fathers as well as mothers, and anyone else who cares about the future of the United States of America and freedom.

The indoctrination begins in kindergarten with the pencil test (who gives you the pencil, God or the teacher?) and goes on through environmental propaganda and on to Marxism in high school.  As noted in Glenn Beck’s program on Friday, the message from an audience experienced in living in communist countries, education is a legitimate political issue, as well as the culture war and the centralization of the government.

Nothing is certain but death, taxes, and the Tea Party. As long as we are taxed for a burgeoning, self-serving government that will micromanage our lives and brainwash our children with their propaganda, there will be a Tea Party.

 

 

Commune, Sweet Commune

What happens when you demolish flood zone homes and build condos in the same area?  Thanks to an arid spring, the answer still hangs in the future.  That’s what Pompton Lakes did; it demolished flood plain homes in the south of town and allowed condos to go up, instead.  More people, more stress on local services, and more kids in the schools.  More people, too, paying taxes on property they don’t even own. 

Residents now want to do the same thing in The Plume. After they’ve finished greenmailing DuPont, they want to sell the land to condominium developers.  Only there’s a hitch; if the EPA condemns the land, no one will ever be able to build on it again.  At most, the land could be used for warehouses.  However, the town council counseled residents they could sell their land privately.

It’s a miracle!  Suddenly, it’s safe to build condos in the flood plain, especially if the EPA approves rebuilding dams on the Pequannock River in Bloomingdale. Presto chango!  The Plume is magically safe to live on once more (so much for open space).  One resident claims our federal officials and the EPA, the nation’s environmental gatekeeper, are the only ones upon whom we can depend to save this little town which we all love.  What rubbish.

If Smart Growth (aka Business Investment Development) activists succeed, no one will recognize Pompton Lakes at all.  The plan is to transform Wanaque Avenue into a narrow, auto-antagonistic alley with four story apartment buildings from the railroad tracks to the Hamburg Turnpike.  In this rainbow scenario, the town will thrive and we’ll all be much better, pedestrian neighbors – living right on top of one another with no independent transportation.

In short, you will live in communes. The commune organizers don’t like using that word, but that’s essentially how future Pompton Lakes residents will live.  The Smart Growth world sounds wonderful –cleaner air and water, less traffic congestion, happy families cavorting on the commons (with permission) – until you get to the end of the fairy tale book.  In this case, the book is called“Toward Sustainable Communities,” by Mark Rosenthal.

Fittingly, it’s Chapter 13, “Governing Sustainable Communities,” where you learn the bad news:  “consensus decision-making.”  Rosenthal tells us, “Consensus is the process for making group decisions without voting.” Since most people already don’t vote – turnout is always low, especially in local elections – perhaps that won’t be a problem for anyone in Pompton Lakes or surrounding communities. Progressives have spent generations redistricting in order to convince us our votes don’t count, so why bother?

However, if you think your vote should count, contact Gov. Christie soon while they’re still deciding the N.J. Development and Redevelopment Plan’s fate.  Passaic County already withdrew from the ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives).  If you care about your future as free citizens of towns like Pompton Lakes and the United States of American, take off the rainbow-colored glasses and speak up.

Ask condo owners how much freedom they enjoy.  Ask them about the thick set of regulations they’re handed, the penalties they pay for violating the rules, the taxes they pay on nothing but space, their heating bills, and the storage fees they pay for additional belongings.  They’ll say they’re not burdened by yard work.  But what is that to the warehouses being created for us while our children are taught sing-song garbage about saving the Earth?  Tell Gov. Christie to tell shovel-ready Smart Growth and the United Nations’ Agenda 21 where they can shovel their communism.

http://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact/