Marshalltown TEA Party: CAUCUS - January 23, 1:00 PM

Contact Elected Officials

Threats of continued intrusion in
our lives and mounting taxes to
cover unlimited national debt
increase daily. Stay vigilant!
Contact your elected officials today
(see links) and join us for the
Marshalltown TEA PARTY.

President Barack Obama:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20500
www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT

US Senator Tom Harkin:
202-224-3254 F-202-224-9369
731 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-1502
http://harkin.senate.gov/c

US Senator Charles Grassley:
202-224-3744 F202-224-6020
135 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-1501
http://grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm

US Congressman Tom Latham:
866-428-5642 F-202-225-3301
Ames 515-232-2885 2217
Rayburn HOB
Washington DC 20515
www.tomlatham.house.gov/contact

US Congressman Leonard Boswell:
(202) 225-3806 F(202) 225-5608
Iowa Ph: (515) 282-1909
(888) 432-1984
1427 Longworth House Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20515

Governor Chet Culver:
515-281-5211
Office of the Governor
State Capitol
Des Moines, IA 50319
email through website

IA Sen. Tim Kapucian
H319-442-5337
1275 69th St,
Keystone, IA, 52249
tim.kapucian@legis.state.ia.us

IA Sen. Steve Sodders
H641-483-2383 Box 734,
202 Fifth Ave. SE,
Sate Center, IA 50247
soddersshrew@partnercom.net

IA Rep. Lance Horbach
515.281.7337. Cell: 641.751.8050
1014 Oakland Dr., Tama, IA 52339
lance.horbach@legis.state.ia.us

IA Rep. Mark Smith
641-750-9278
826 Roberts Terrace
Marshalltown, IA 50158
msmith1@mchsi.com

IA Rep. Annette Sweeney
641-373-4899 21547
Hwy S27 Alden, IA 50006
sweeney@legis.state.ia.us

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government . . . A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury . . . From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship . . . The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years . . . During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. From bondage to spiritual faith; 2. From spiritual faith to great courage; 3. From courage to liberty; 4. From liberty to abundance; 5. From abundance to complacency; 6. From complacency to apathy; 7. From apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage.”

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29; Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000; Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million; Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1;

Professor Olson adds: "In the aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency” and “apathy" phases of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

As Congress votes on “cap and trade” and “universal healthcare”, after having indebted this and the next generations of tax payers for trillions in bailouts, we are witnessing the end of freedom.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE. TAKE A STAND AGAINST TYRANNY!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Fellow Patriots,

Congress will be voting on the cap and trade bill this Friday. Call Latham at 202-225-5476, and Boswell 202-225-3806.

Cap and Trade is essentially the Kyoto Treaty applied to individual citizens! Cap the "carbon emissions", tax/penalize those that exceed the limits and allow others to sell their unused air to those that exceed! Buying, selling, taxing the air we breathe!!!!!! OMG!!!!

The Boston Tea Party was not a revolt against a new tax on tea. It was a revolt against a British Bailout measure to give preferential tax breaks to the financially strapped British East India Tea Company! Gee, does picking winners and losers sound familiar?

Tea Parties are protests against government bailouts!!!!

by Darrell Meyer

Compare these statements.

Which would you rather have reflected in our school system?

"Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to William Hunter, 11 March 1790

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."
-- Communist Party Education Workers Congress
1918

Quotes

"Hold on my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world." Daniel Webster "The Great Debator" (1851).

"Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution does not authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people do not understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them." Joseph Sobran

"On the distinctive principles of the Government of the United States, the best guides are to be found in the Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States." James Madison (1825).

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