The New York City Tea Party, inspired by Rick Santelli and organized by Kellen Guida and Alex Zablocki, drew a larger-than-expected crowd today at City Hall Park downtown. The crowd was energized to begin with, with some great signs, and the speakers did their part of firing up the crowd. It was really encouraging to see so many people (around 300) being so vocal against the exponential expansion of government. I wish I could have stayed longer and spoken to more people there, but I only had an hour on the parking meter.
The Village Voice has some coverage out already, and they mentioned my favorite speaker by name:
Patrick Gibson, host of the Evil Conservative radio show on WVOX in New Rochelle, said "the same government that gave us the welfare state, the same government that created the problems that we're in right now, is the same government that says, 'Give us all the power and we'll solve the problems for you.'" His proposed solution was "tax cuts for business.
OK. So the Gettysburg Address it wasn't. But hopefully the point gets across - Governments don't produce anything, so all that free stuff they're promising.... has to first be taken from someone else.
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