November 13, 2009
Matthew Spieler
Apparently believing that their tactics have thus far been too temperate, tea party activists in Virginia plan to burn Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy. The event will take place Saturday evening.
Perriello, who represents Virgina’s generally conservative 5th congressional district, ousted the ultra-right wing Virgil Goode in one of the biggest upsets of the 2008 election. Since taking office, Perriello — a former Special Advisor to the international prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone — has been a top target of GOP strategists.
Unlike most Democrats who represent Republican-leaning districts, Perriello voted in favor the House health care reform bill last weekend.
Matthew Spieler
Matthew Spieler is a former policy analyst for Congressional Quarterly, where he covered health care, education, labor, and veterans’ affairs. A graduate of The George Washington University, he has also worked as a reporter for CQ covering ...
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StokeyBob says:
I feel the reason behind most of our troubles and the need for TEA Parties is the government’s ability to print up whatever money it wants to manipulate us.
Maybe this will help make the danger of fiat money clear.
Imagine you and me are setting across from each other. We create enough money to represent all of the world’s wealth. Each one of us has one SUPER Dollar in front of him.
You own half of everything and so do I.
I’m the government though. I get bribed into creating a Central Bank.
You’re not doing what I want you to be doing so I print up myself eight more SUPER Dollars to manipulate you with.
All of a sudden your SUPER Dollar only represents one tenth of the wealth of the world!
That isn’t the only thing though. You need to get busy and get to work because YOU’VE BEEN STIFFED with the bill for the money I PRINTED UP to get YOU TO DO what I WANTED.
That to me represents what has been happening to the economy, and us, and why so many of our occupations just can’t keep up with the fake money presses.
They have been beating us with our own stick!!!!1