Ok, folks. Watch this video from Obama’s “Organizing for America” team and then tell us why you aren’t going to help us this Saturday do some door knocking in Congressional District VA9 against Rick Boucher. Time to put your words into action. Free bus trip to VA9. Contact us for a free ride to help out for the day at susanl@richmondteaparty.com.

Want all the details for this Saturday’s bus trip to Southwest Virginia’s VA9? Go here 

                          

An excellent new resource was just made available for helping proponents of constitutionally limited government organize their get-out-the-vote efforts more effectively than we have in the past to have a real impact on elections. It’s called the Concord Project and is found at www.concordproject.org.

For a detailed post about this initiative, click here.

                          

Maryland is rolling out license-plate scanners mounted on police patrol cars. The vehicle-mounted scanners are said to each be capable of scanning 5,000 plates in an eight-hour shift. The data will be transmitted in real time to a central database for analysis. The database will also record each event “by registering their GPS locations when each license plate is scanned.”

                          

To hear these and other speakers, visit the VA Tea Party Patriots Convention website to get your tickets today!

                          

A few months back, the Richmond Tea Party polled our supporters to find out if you wanted us to organize bus trips to Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally or the 9/12 March on Washington. The strong preference was for Restoring Honor, so that’s the one we organized. But the 9/12 March on Washington is critical as well, and though we haven’t organized any buses to DC, we strongly encourage anyone who can make the trip on their own to do so. 

As inspiring as the Restoring Honor rally was, the 9/12 march is actually more closely aligned with the Tea Party’s mission. I went to last year’s and was thrilled at the number of peaceful, patriotic citizens that had come together to challenge the apostles of big government in Washington. And this year’s march offers another attempt to remind them that we are still fully engaged with November rapidly approaching.

It will also celebrate the national phenomenon of regular citizens finally getting involved and leading where we haven’t before. One of the speakers is Ana Puig, who runs a Tea Party type organization (and someone I know on a personal level), and is an ordinary mom who, like many in this movement, finds herself making an extraordinary impact on the political environment. From a Daily Caller article:

Ana Puig, an immigrant from Brazil and co-chair of Pennsylvania’s Kitchen Table Patriots, said she plans to talk about the similarities between government takeovers in America now and what she witnessed as a child growing up in Latin America.

“What I’m going to lean towards is what’s happening here, under this administration, with the infiltration of the education system, the implementation of class warfare, voter fraud that we witnessed back in 2008 in Minnesota and brainwashing with all channels of communication,” Puig said in a phone interview with TheDC.

Puig, a mother of four, thinks FreedomWorks’ focus on local Tea Party leaders lets local leaders like her showcase their ability to get involved and make a difference.

“If somebody like me can do it [organize a local Tea Party chapter], anybody can do it,” she said. “I’m tired of the excuse of people saying to me, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this, thank you so much, but I don’t have the time because my kids have soccer.’ Well, guess what? My kids have soccer too.”

I hope many of you will go to Washington on 9/12 and stand strong for constitutionally limited government.

                          

…why both so-called parties of fed dot gov don’t want to deal with the illegal immigration issue: illegals are helping keep the Social Security system afloat.

I’ve always known it was about demographics, but a recent WaPo article confirms it: by paying SS taxes but being ineligible to receive benefits, illegal immigrants are making a vital contribution toward postponing the date of insolvency for the Social Security system.

Let’s understand something: the illegals are not doing work that Americans don’t want to do, and they are not doing work that would be left undone otherwise. They are doing work and paying payroll taxes while remaining ineligible to ever receive any SS benefits. They count on one side of the Social Security ledger, the income side, but not on the other side, liabilities. In other words, if Americans were doing these jobs they’d be paying the same payroll taxes but they would also then be placed on the Social Security rolls as eligible to receive benefits in the future when they retire. What this literally means is that the federal government doesn’t want you to have this work because you would then want to retire and receive benefits. Only in Bizarro World does this make sense; they’d rather you stayed unemployed. This means they hope that unemployed people will vote for bigger government, and the government keeps on getting free money from illegals. This is how DC defines “Win-Win.”

Stephen C. Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration and someone who enjoys bipartisan support for his straightforwardness, said that by 2007, the Social Security trust fund had received a net benefit of somewhere between $120 billion and $240 billion from unauthorized immigrants.

That represented an astounding 5.4 percent to 10.7 percent of the trust fund’s total assets of $2.24 trillion that year. The cumulative contribution is surely higher now. Unauthorized immigrants paid a net contribution of $12 billion in 2007 alone, Goss said.

You can’t make this stuff up.

                          

In the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Robin Beres wrote an excellent commentary on last week’s Restoring Honor rally. While not a fan of Glenn Beck herself, she couldn’t help but be impressed by the nature of the crowd he drew: 

Standing shoulder to shoulder, it was a demonstrably patriotic gathering, a group of people concerned that America has lost its footing and that Americans have lost their pride. These people had come to this rally, concerned not that our president is black, but that our fiscal bottom line is red.

Read the entire article here.

                          

The Richmond Tea Party leadership has released the following call to action.

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Want to make a difference in Virginia politics? Itching to do something about the mid-term elections? Here’s your chance!

The Richmond Tea Party wants to answer a call for help from the tea parties in the 9th District (southwest Virginia) and from Americans for Limited Government. But we need your help to do it.

They have asked that we send a busload of volunteers to Christiansburg on Saturday, September 11th to help hand out voter guides in a door-to-door campaign to highlight the differences between the candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives.

The current representative is Rick Boucher (D, currently serving his 14^th term) who needs to be removed. He is a typical tax and spend big government politician and is a supporter of Cap & Trade legislation. His challenger is Morgan Griffith (R, who has been serving on the VA House since 1994). He is committed to constitutionally limited government.

If you have the time, we need your help to make a difference!

Details:

The 47-passenger bus will depart from the Short Pump Target parking lot at 5:30 AM on Saturday, September 11th. We recommend that you arrive by 5:00 AM.

Richmond Tea Party is paying for the bus, so there is no charge for the volunteers. But, we will ask that you sign a waiver of liability statement prior to boarding the bus.

Breakfast will be served in Christiansburg at 8:30 Saturday morning, and we’ll get started around 9:00 and will depart at 5:00 PM.  We will be provided all materials, training, and transportation.

We have to confirm the bus to James River Bus Lines no later than Tuesday, September 7th, so if you can help, please respond as soon as possible to susanl@richmondteaparty.com. Please provide your name and phone number.

Every person will be contacted by phone prior to departure.

                          

Google defines “enabler” as a person who through his or her actions allows someone to achieve something. Most often the term “enabler” is associated with people who allow loved ones to behave in ways that are destructive. For example, a friend enables a compulsive spender by lending them money to get out of debt. In this fashion, though the enabler may be acting out of love and trying to help and protect a person, he or she is actually making a chronic problem like an addiction worse by continuing his actions. Someone is there to bail him out of trouble and continue to enable this behavior. 

Democrats are proposing a Transaction Tax (1% on ALL financial transactions in Pelosi Speak) that will tax banks, credit unions, mutual funds, brokers, etc. The excuse is to reduce the massive deficit – which they created – but this really just gives them more money to waste. And as financial institutions pass the taxes on to the John Doe consumer, you and I – as always – are stuck paying the bill. 

When we will stop playing the enabler of this spend and tax Congress?

                          

Amidst all the discouraging news that we are facing in the fight for our very existence, I took a few minutes last night and sat down with my daughter to watch Toy Story. Without fail, from the moment we hear “When you wish upon a star…” intro to Disney movies her eyes light up (as do mine most of the time). This gave me pause and I took a moment to thank God for all the good things in America that are often forgotten, overlooked or just taken for granted. So in hopes of everyone having a great holiday weekend, I decided to put together a list of my favorite American contributions to the world. Feel free to add your favorites to the list.

Walt Disney – Without the freedom to fail and try again, the freedom to be as creative as you want, there would not have been Walt Disney. And without Walt Disney, imagine how many starry-eyed kids and wonder-filled smiles the world would not have seen.

Elvis, i.e. Rock and Roll – My husband debates me on this point but I stand firm that he is the King of Rock and Roll for a reason. Again, the creativity that comes from freedom to pursue your dreams and realize your strengths and abilities can give rise to the creation of something the world has never seen, or in this case heard, before. And before Elvis, the world had never heard the likes of Heartbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock, Don’t Be Cruel and All Shook Up. And that in turn created a genre of music that still lives today all over the world.

Movies – Do I need to say more? As much as I object to the content of some of today’s films, you do not see widely acclaimed movies coming out of Poland or Iran or Taiwan. We invented the industy as we know it today, which is surprising that so many in Hollywood oppose the conservative values of our founders. It is exactly those values that allow them to do what they do and make a killing doing it.

Tiffany’s – Ahhhh, every girl’s favorite gift. A little blue box with a white ribbon tied perfectly. Tiffany set the standard for silver in America by insisting on 925 parts per 1000 for all sterling silver jewelry. Before that, no one had any standard for silver jewelry.

DuPont – Beginning by improving gun-powder in this country, this company has gone on to provide this country and the world with much scientific innovation. Nylon, Teflon, Tyvek, and Nomex (fire-proof material) and Kevlar (bullet proof material) to name a few. Consider this, DuPont donated booties to the canines who were sniffing the remains of Ground Zero in the days following 9/11 to prevent their paws from burns and damage. Kevlar has saved 3000 lives of officers and those who depend on it to protect themselves from danger.

College Football – Feel free to insert your favorite sport here. With the exception of a few, most organized sports have been given the chance to flourish through the free market system. I happen to favor college football and will be tuned in all this weekend.

Coca Cola – I understand that Coca Cola doesn’t exactly fall into the “health food” category but to me, there is nothing like the taste of a cold Coke while kicking back to watch a game.

Apple – Need I say more? Where would we all be without our iPhones, iPods, iPads or Macs?

Sense of Charity – No population in the world is more generous with their money or time than Americans.

Freedom – Whatever the French may say about us, fact is most of them would still be living in rural squalor if it weren’t for the principles of freedom that many of their revolutionaries learned from our founding fathers. I dare say that if France had not learned from America, Coco Chanel would have had a snowball’s chance…. And that goes for the rest of the world too. The only countries that know a measure of freedom today were inspired by our “great experiment.”

So here’s to a great weekend, and God Bless America!!