Comments on: A Growing "Tea Party" Movement?

The Weekly Standard: Opposition To The Foreclosure Bailout Rises

[labrat9999]

These people can't be this ignorant that they don't know that the GOP, Rove, and Rush are behind this "grand idea". But seriously, 5,000 people, 10,000 people, or even 40,000 people?? Since we always love to talk about percentage can one of your fine Republicans out there do the math for me and tell me exactly what is 40,000 people in terms of the entire population of the US? This is nothing more than the media once again using numbers that sometimes the average American doesn't use the noggin to think about in terms of reality. Heck more Americans showed up at the College Football game than this. So does that mean every American must certainly enjoy college football? Please let's stop the hype and nonsence and move on to more constructive journalism.

[noloyalisti]

The first thing WE ALL need to do is to stop listening to the Republicans, they are in the process of being completely voted out. They have no plan, no ideas for the future and no credibility. The conservative ideology is a COMPLETE failure.

So now we need to go forward. A lot of people criticize socialism but none of them say what is so bad about it. Canada and western European countries all have social programs. They are not involved in two stupid wars and they all have better health care. That's just the beginning.

[enriquecaliente]

Where was Santelli when the TARP was approved by Bush. Oh wait, he works with the financiers. The people who got everyone into this mess. It was Wall.St that created the market, drove it and raped it. They drove the bus into the wall. They collected the fees, which amounted to TRILLION of dollors. They lured and baited everyone into buying into it. Just like the Tobacco industries killed millions of Americans by showing how attractive smoking was. Knowing all along that it caused cancer. I know because of the TON of junk mail I got from Countywide and others who wanted me to refinance my home, so that they could reap the fees for doing me this so called favor. I wasn't even in the house for a year yet and they sent me adverts. Please a lot of good people where scammed, lead, tricked and pressured. I mean how can you give a home to someone with NO INCOME VERIFICATION. When I bought my home, it was the most painful experience I can remember. I had to account for every penny I had. They wanted saving and checking statements going back years. And not once, but several times. All that the bankers and Realtor and Wall.St cared about was the fees they collected. GREED.

[iDragon13]

It is more like a growing "BOWEL" movement.

[iDragon13]

It is more like a growing "bowl" movement.

[ubrew12]

article: "John Shilling, an 18-year-old student in Hilton Head, South Carolina, launched a site called 92percentgroup.org. Its sole mission is to oppose the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. "We feel like 92 percent of the country has been paying their mortgage on time, and we've been a silent majority this whole time," "

Shilling isn't arrogant. Not one little bit ; )

The other 8% constitute over 5 million people, whom Shilling has no trouble throwing out of their homes for delinquent payment. I believe that many if not most of these people were caught up in the radical sales pitches that went on a few years ago to sell homes to anyone and everyone. And the reason these sales pitches didn't catch Shilling is because he was 12 years old at the time.

If we're going to bail banks out of a self-made mess, can we spend 1/20th the amount we're spending on banks to bail out homeowners from a mess THE BANKS MADE??? What's with this 'socialism for the rich only' thing?

[kt8268]

Oh and by the way it isn't just about the bailing out homeowners, DUH it's about ALL these bailouts we are paying for that aren't doing ANYTHING... guess what AIG lost some where around $42,000.00 a MINUTE last quarter., how's that for spending tax payers money responsibly and the Obama Admin is throwing them more money.
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[noloyalisti]

I just hope to God that all those who are opposing homeowners bailouts were also actively out demonstrating or contacting Congress to oppose the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the bank bailouts and the Bush tax cuts to the top 2%. Otherwise they would be nothing than lousy hypocrites.

[kt8268]

WRONG ..... There were tea party talkS and gatherings BEFORE Santelli's rant. AND ABOUT TIME TOO! The interest ALONE for spending this year will take until 2039 to be paid! AND we are tired of the do as I say not what we do from this administration! Congress gave themselves a raise, MINE was taken by this administrations policies that .. have tanked the stock market even further, will drive up fuel costs which in turn will drive up ALL costs and even though I am NO WHERE near the so called 250k mark for taxes IT IS WRONG! AND DON'T THINK IT WILL STOP THERE all of you living in a bubble, your bubble is getting ready to burst!

WE ARE MAD AND WE AREN'T TAKING IT ANYMORE!

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[Renegade.Rivers]

I realize that there are two sides to this story. There are those who are losing their home due to job loss, their unemployment benefits running out, and then them not being able to get another job. On the other hand, there are many others who are losing their homes not for the above mentioned reasons, but because of getting in over their heads, mismanagement, and a general lack of responsibility. It is those in the last category that I see a problem with bailing out.

I bought a home that I could afford, and I paid 50% down on my home, having waited and saved till I could afford to own a home. I rented for many years and put up with landlords, both good and bad. I did what a majority of Americans would call the right thing to do. I was responsible for the well being of my family, and myself. My wife and I skimped and saved, and made sacrifices when we had to, to insure that we made the payments we had to pay, including our mortgage payment ever month for the the last 20 years.

Now we have a President that rather than award us responsible Americans for what we have done, wants to help those who have not been responsible, and made the right choices. The truth of the matter is that there is a small minority of people who will never take responsibility for their own lives, and that of their families. Instead they will use any means they can to get someone else to take care of their responsibilities for them. We then have a government that cuddles these kind of individuals, and expects the taxpayer to take care of them and their families, with free food, free medical, and all kinds of other benefits that honest hard working Americans could never qualify for. They can find ways to give and I do mean literally give this people a living, yet they cannot take care of the disabled veterans in a manner that is close to what these welfare vagabonds receive.

Ask any disabled veteran, and I am sure that they will tell you that welfare recipients receive better medical care than a disabled veteran and his family receives through the VA system. How can anyone justify this? Add to that the fact that a family can can get on welfare in a matter of weeks, while it often takes years for a veteran to obtain benefits, due to the mismanagement within the VA system. How can this be?

Don't misunderstand what I am saying, I do believe that their should be a system in place to help those who are really in need of help. Such as people who have become sick, and can no longer work, who need help until they are approved for Medicaid, and honest hard working Americans who have lost their jobs, exhausted their unemployment and cannot find a job that will let them met their obligations, because of much lower wages. Many of us at one time or another need such help, and should be able to obtain it.

On the other hand, there are those who are professional welfare rats. They expect everything for nothing, and want the rest of society to pay for their living for them. I have no problems with helping someone who is doing the best they can with what they got. It's those that aren't doing the best they can, and in many cases, doing nothing at all to help themselves, that I have a problem using my tax dollars to help.

Yet it is the liberals in our society who believe that those are the ones that we should help first. The drug addicts, and the alcoholics, who have rehabbed a half-dozen times, and still didn't get it, the illegal immigrants, and those that won't even attempt to take care of themselves, and take any responsibilities for their own lives. As the old saying goes, "I don't have a problem giving anyone a helping hand, but I do have a problem when they want my hand, too."

This goes for companies, and banks and all of the other bailout recipients who have mismanaged and are failing because of poor business management. What shouldn't these businesses fail, they didn't take the responsibility and make the right business decisions to ensure that their businesses would succeed. Why should my tax dollars be used to bail them out?

If they do fail, so be it, there will be new businesses to take their place, and surely some of those will take the responsibilities necessary to insure that their businesses succeed.

Yes there is a growing majority of Americans who have grown very tired of being the providers for a welfare state, that has found a way to reward those who are unwilling, and uncaring enough to expect the government to take care of them, while they drink their alcohol, and take their drugs while the rest are working hard to get what we have.

Yes, there is time for change, but the kind of change that the present administration, or the one previous is trying to force upon us, will never make our country stronger, nor will it get us out of the economic mess that we now find ourselves in.

[jntlw]

Republicans are trying to start a revolt over giving money for social issues all the while spending like drungen sailors to bail out Wall St and Bankers who are guilty for this entire mess. Republicans are becoming very scary - there is nothing they will not do to gain power and that my friend is the truth. After 8 years under the dictator Cheney/Bush did the Democrats riot - no. But under six weeks of Obama republicans are trying to instigate a riot for all the wrong reasons. People are really sick and tired of their reprehensible behavior and their stupid leaders!

[jntlw]

I am by far more upset that we gave bailout money to crooked corrupt arrogant bankers and Wall Street tycoons who made this mess. Bailout money with no oversight or accountabilty to boot. Now that chaps my hide. Giving it to homeowners to prevent whole neighbors hoods from collapse and from farther devaluation of your home, is not nearly as bad as bailing out bankers and Wall St.

[___One_American___]

What will Obama do when half of America refuses to pay taxes because of his wasteful, thoughtless Socialist spending?

Answer: the Liberals will have to cannibalize themselves!

DON'T TREAD ON ME, OBAMA!

[sjc_1]

Santelli and the others can stop paying their mortgages and then the bottom feeding mortgage brokers will just pick them up at a huge discount and all the the people yelling in the background during his rant will lose the down payment and equity that they have put in over the year. Go ahead...make my day!

[loueetwoee]

The self-righteousness of some of you people is a great indication of why we are in this mess. It's simply a mentality of exploitation that somehow became the "American Way." Well, I'm ashamed of the current American Way. We've let "serial killer" investment bankers become the people we admire. Santelli? Please! He's one of them! Why would anyone listen to a word he says. You people who advocate letting "them" fall to the bottom are really showing a great deal of ignorance. I hope you don't see the result of that ignorance in your own lives.

[noloyalisti]

We finally are getting somewhere. We do need a revolution against the huge corporations and those in the government who are doing their dirty work. The last thing we want to do though is follow the anti-government right wing losers on this. That is why the progressives and liberals must stand up to the conservatives who just want more of the McSame.

What we really need is a radical change to the whole economic system of runaway capitalism (which becomes right wing fascism). I have been advocating boycotts and general strikes to temporarily cripple business and the government. After we flex the power, we can institute a real government for, by and of the people. Get rid of privately finance election, corporate lobbyists and essentially all Republicans from government and other positions of power.

[blindersoff]

Santelli is a fake, he's a former derivatives trader himself. CNBC has been calling it wrong for years. Bear Stearns stock was recommended by Jim Cramer 6 days before they failed. Allen Stanford (the billionare thief) was on the channel doing a softball interview bragging about how he avoided the crisis. The TARP under Bush for banks was 750 billion. President Obama's housing plan is 75 billion and out of the second half of the tarp money. The stimulus and budget are two areas he's working on to help the economy. I don't know if they will work or not but I'm fully confident he's working on it rather than denying altogther we are in a recession and possibly a depression.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/jon-stewart-eviscerates-c_n_172057.html

[WillowOne]

http://www.taxdayteaparty.com/

Go there and find out where your local Tax Day Tea Party is. Get your gusto up and JOIN! If there's not one in your area, get one going!

The only way we're going to get the country back from federal dictatorship is to organize peaceful protest!

[WillowOne]

harbinger19 if you opt out would you not drive on the roads anymore if you home is on fire please do not call anyone please do not call 911 if you have kids do not send them to school and the list goes on and on because i do not want to pay taxes and i sure do not want to pay for you
Posted by aheadace at 6:10 AM : Mar 5, 2009

EXACTLY what do you MEAN? Everybody that pays local taxes in the form of registering their cars, sales tax on cars, sales tax on anything, property taxes, buys gasoline is contributing to the upkeep of roads and bridges, police departments, fire departments and ambulance service and education.

LOCAL money provides those services NOT THE FEDS!!!!

Get a life! Or better yet, get a freaking CIVICS CLASS!

[gunownerdan]

Our gov't makes the so-called tyranny that pushed the colonist to revolt look like child's play.
Posted by mnamolina

I disagree, the government hasn't attempted to take our guns....yet.