Tea Party! (Taxed Enough Already!)

Today me and Mai went to a tax protest gathering in downtown Houston. We'd made a special point of getting off of work early so we could do this. We took a Park N Ride bus at $3.75 per person each way and later thought that maybe we should have just driven down instead. We especially began to think this after the bus dropped us off about 15 blocks away from our hoped for destination. Downtown Houston still manages to confuse me even after nearly 30 years of living here. We got a little lucky as we found the protest site (Jones Plaza) without really knowing exactly where it was.

Alot of the media have portrayed these local tea parties, they're national in scale and number nearly 1000 parties, as ultra-rightwing conservative affairs and therefore as bankrupt in thought. Now, I suppose a person can find anything they're looking for at these meetings. What I saw was a packed venue of earnest people. As some people exited the site the crowd was replenished with new arrivals. It would not surprise me at all if the total crowd numbered upwards of 25,000, that's alot of people protesting who normally eschew public showings.

My protest involves my belief that the federal government is carelessly and wantonly destroying the dollar's value through massive deficit spending. A proposed deficit of 1.7 trillion dollars is almost unbelievable. For just one year the amount borrowed by the Obama administration is about $6000 for every man, woman and child presently residing within the United States. I truly wonder what shall become of us.