Are TEA Parties Being Hijacked By Big Business

[AyatollahGondola]

First off, read this from a blog, then I'll add something about why I believe the TEA Parties are being hijacked:

Hear, hear. We oppose protectionism for the Delta “smelt” SAC Rally Aug 28thPosted by: Larry Gilbert : Category: Fresh Juice

The following Press Release was just received at the Cutting Edge-a talk show

One if by Land, None if by Sea: Patriots Ride to Halt Eco Fish “fry” in CA
Dust Bowl

Sacramento, CA: Hundreds of California farmers, ranchers, loggers and truckers will join an estimated 50,000 people to protest the court-ordered shutoff of water to the state’s Central Valley farmland: All to protect a minnow.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 07, 2009 – A coalition of hispanic, conservative, taxpayer and agricultural industry organizations will march to the steps of California’s capitol building in Sacramento on Friday, Aug. 28 to fight for the livelihoods of working families over the rights of a federally protected fish.
“The government is putting fish before families. The insanity must end,” says attorney Mark Meckler, national coordinator of the grassroots Tea Party Patriots. “It is devastating California’s economy. We are being crushed by burdensome regulations and taxes imposed by politicans who care more for causes and political gamesmanship than people.”

The rally from noon to 5 p.m. protests California’s restrictive environmental laws that often pit eco-activists against business or community interests: In this case, the state’s “bread basket” versus a bait fish.

On May 25, 2007, U. S. District Court Judge Oliver W. Wanger issued a ruling based on federal environmental laws, to cut water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to protect a three-inch minnow called the Delta smelt.

Since the Wanger decision, once fruitful farmland along I-5 now resembles Oklahoma’s catastrophic “Dust Bowl.” Signs attached to poles stuck into dry, scrub furrows along the route read, “Congress Created Dust Bowl.”

Protesters blame “Eco-Tyranny” and global warming hysteria for decisions like Wanger’s and California’s own version of Cap-and-Trade regulations for closing businesses, family farms and creating economic ghost towns in the Central Valley.

“It’s time to repeal AB 32, which is essentially California’s experiment in controlling global warming,” the Tea Party Patriot’s Meckler adds, “It is devastating California’s economy.”

AB 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also creates standards for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to regulate refrigerant gases, the kind usually found in air-conditioning or HVAC-R systems, which are found in food processing, storage or transportation sites and manufacturing or industrial facilities.

Californians from the Central Valley to Los Angeles and San Diego are already feeling the pinch of AB 32 and environmental regulations with higher water and grocery bills.

Rep. Devin Nunes, (R-Visalia), whose district nestles in the heart of the Central Valley, cites unemployment in the San Joaquin Valley at nearly 20 percent, with some cities reporting unemployment at nearly 40 percent.

A University of California, Davis study, based on a December 2008, report by the federal Fish and Wildlife Service on water reduction in the San Joaquin Valley, estimated area job losses at 80,000 and revenue losses at $2.2 billion for 2009.

“People and communities have been replaced by a parade of extreme environmental activists and their misguided causes, ” Nunes said on July 8, after the House Appropriations Committee rejected one of his recurring attempts to block federal spending on decisions that divert precious irrigation water to protect salmon and the delta smelt among other species.

“Our politicians and their appointed cronies are strangling this great states, ” says Meckler, adding. “It’s time the politicians and bureaucrats got off the backs of California’s productive people and freed them to produce the innovation, wealth and jobs that only they can. Government is not the solution; government is the problem.”
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For info on the Aug. 28 Event: www.sac828.org

Mark Meckler, National Coordinator & California Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots 530-274-9900 www.teapartypatriots.org

Patty Meckler, Assistant Coordinator California Tea Party 530-274-9900 www.sacteaparty.com

Dawn Wildman, Co-coordinator, California Tea Party Patriots 619-296-5159

Ben Bergquam, Central Valley Tea Party www.patriots4ai.com 559-840-2913

Brad Roltgen, Co-organizer of the Central Valley Tea Party 559-240-2378
[email protected]

Karen Kenney, Event Media Relations 818-996-6820

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[AyatollahGondola]

Ok, so we have angry tax payers being drawn into the anti-business regulation crowds agenda. But are they both the same? For me, I say it's no. The anger from Americans has been over the bailouts to big finance, and the subsidizing of automakers and other related businesses. Farmers recieve more subsidies than any one other group, because those bailouts/support has been ongoing for decades. And who has been one of the biggest abusers of immigration? Famers who demand a plentiful, continuous, and ever increasing supply of temporary cheap workers. Now the TEA party organizers have joined forces with them to protest the controls placed on them by environmental laws in this state. Looking at the event invitation, it specifically includes the Hispanic demographic and does not mention any other races. The Hispanic lobby has been at the heart of supporting illegal immigration, and increases in immigration in general. They have fought for drivers licenses for illegals, the passage of huge public works projects paid for by the issuance of more bonds that expand California's debt, and legislation that expands government such as public healthcare, school programs and subidized housing. So now fed up taxpayers who oppose bigger government are suddenly on the same page as them? Water has been an ongoing problem in California, but environmental regs have not been at the root of it. That dubious honor goes to increasing population driven by immigration, illegal and no. The cities and towns being built in traditionally dry areas are constantly drawing more water flows, which ultimately end up coming from farmers alottment. So then we have two big pressures placed on water supplies, and the next victim is of course one of the last free roaming food speicies in California; the fish. Fish are not only victimized by low water flows, but also damming of rivers and streams, and also chemicals from farmers fields, and runoff from human habitat. So which business has suffered the most? Not farmers, it's fisherman. They've been put out of business by advancing development and water intensive crops. The salmon runs in California have just about collapsed. The other fisheries on the coast have been so restricted as to be unprofitable. Fish are a main food group, and without that Californians would be forced to become dependent upon either foriegn supplies of fish, or more big business owned agriculture and ranching. The bottom line is that most of our beef, poultry, and pork now comes from big business as opposed to smaller family farms, so who is actually the beneficiary of looser restrictions in the regards to the agenda of this protest? The TEA party organizers have now allowed the causes that has been destroying California, illegal immigration, population expansion, developement of open lands, increased water use, lower quality of life, and decline of natural resources to take control of the anger that rank and file Californians have lashed out with at the government. I, for one, believe we should not let our efforts be directed by these usurpers. I want a fair California, and not one that uses a wildly swinging pendulum as a masochistic weapon. I also want a California that isn't addicted to illegal immigration or cheap labor. And my vision of California was, and is one where clean water is a natural occurance, and not something each household must buy from some multinational owned water company in the neighborhood. With naturally clean water, the fish and the fishing industry will return as a staple and viable occupation. Farmers can always plant crops because seeds keep for decades in most cases, but once the fish runs go extinct, they are gone for good.

[ilbegone]

I've been mulling over some thoughts presented lately...

One is that we are a nation of moderates ruled by 180 degree opposite extremists, which plays into the next thought.

The Republicans acted with such arrogance during the Bush years that there was the backlash which catapulted the Democrats into the majority.

Now, mistaking the backlash as a popularly approved mandate to likewise do whatever the hell their extremist agenda dictates, the Democrats may now be stepping all over their own gear by moving way too fast.

Too much money being spent which exists only on paper and relying on decades of taxation. Trying to steam roll thousands of pages of unread legislation billed as "health care reform" into law without consideration or debate. Shoveling amnesty to people who should have never been here in the first place while American citizens are unemployed.

The Democrat party hasn't wasted any time in crapping next to the house.

And Republican big business extremism is eager to take advantage of that swinging pendulum.

[AyatollahGondola]

One is that we are a nation of moderates ruled by 180 degree opposite extremists, which plays into the next thought.

That about sums it up really. I would compare this to what our options are at the ballot box, and those always end up being the only two that are presented by the powerful entities that control political contests. In this case, we still have two options again

[ilbegone]

The last job I was on with all the mandated ecological, archealogical, Indian, and paleantological monitors as well as inspectors inspecting the inspectors who were inspecting us...

There were only a couple of places in seventy odd miles that we would be under the federal mandate concerning protected species and such to be observed in such a potentially tyranical manner. However, it turns out that whomever in the State of California who approved the project decided we needed to be hog tied like that.

It's one thing to do a job and be respectful and careful with one's surroundings. But to have some fellacionalistic desk jocky with extremist environmental views hamstring a project from a distance is entirely unnecessary and expensive to the contractor.

[kjl]

Water is your gold in the desert. The politicians only see people as potential voters, the more the better in their eyes. They don't see the impact on the limited resources and infrastructure. We are stating to look more like a third world country than some of the third world countries. It's sad to see it happening in my lifetime.

[joazinha]

Dallas, TX, used to be a WORLD-class city, but has DEGENERATED into one of our nation's BEST illegal alien refuge towns!