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Riot in Township Harbor Local merchants and town's people went aboard ships in the Harbor last night vandalizing the cargo of tea. This and the ongoing boycott on tea should send a message to the parliament and the King. We will no longer be treated like slaves. We will not be taxed to support the King or the English elite. Our fore fathers fought and died to set us free. It was about taxation without representation. The colonists in America were being taxed without a vote or representation to support England which was thousands of miles away. Today we take taxation and deficit spending in stride. There are states that pay taxes and there are states that suck the coffers dry. There are people who pay taxes and there are some people who feed at the government trough. Taxation without representation is an issue today, but we are too cowardly to take back our government. Some of us are organizing a peaceful protest at 3rd & D Street, 5-6 pm on Wed April 15. Join us before it is too late. Let your voice be heard. Ear marks are still rampant. Our congress buys and sells votes under the table by approving special projects for congressmen when their votes are needed to approve a big spending project. Those earmarks are not voted on; they are bought and sold in secret in committee meetings. We are such cowards, compared to the founders of this country. Why do we allow our congressmen to use secret earmarks? We should be mad. What do you call it when we our congress asks our Federal Bank system to create money to keep the banks afloat? We have to know this is inflationary. Every dollar you hold is worth a little less when that happens. The government is making your money worth less so they can bail out the banks, so the banks can lend money to someone who has no intention of paying it back. It sounds like taxation without representation to me. Why are we not rioting in the streets? Many of these bailouts and the expansion of our countries debt is occurring in some cases without spending bills being voted on. They are calling on the Federal Bank like it is some rich uncle. The Feds will recover that money by making every dollar you hold worth a little less. Who is mad about the Federal debt? Obama is putting spending and budgets in place that will have huge deficits as far out as 10 years from now. That is taxation without representation. Our children and grandchildren who are not even born yet will be paying off that debt long after we are dead and gone. We will be spending the money over the next 10 years but our children will still be paying interest on the borrowed money 20 year from now. They are being taxed without representation before they are born. What gives us the right to mortgage their birthright today before they are even born, let alone old enough to vote? You can make the case that deficit spending and debt can be used to stimulate the economy in the short term. The same economists that argue for deficit spending in the short-term, will tell you to curb deficit spending once the economy recovers. There is no justification for deficit spending today that will be stealing from our children and grandchildren 10 and 20 years from now. Billy Carlisle
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