Tea Party Needs to Get Local - And Invite the Community in for Some Tea!
Now that the Tea Party has caused the largest change-over in seats in the Congress in 72 years, what on earth could possibly do for an encore you wonder? Well, I have many theories and thoughts, but I also realize that all politics is local.
So maybe that is a good place for the tea party to start, after all, if you'll recall during the time of Ross Perot, it was a grassroots effort which changed American politics, for some unfortunately it divided the Republican Party.
This time that third-party, the tea party, has united with the Republican Party and taken over.
Things are about to change on the national level, but what about the local level? It is my contention that we need to go through all the rules and regulations at the local levels of government to get local governments off the backs of small business, so they can provide jobs.
So maybe, the tea party needs to get local, and invite the rest of the community and local government in for some tea.
Town Hall meetings with Tea! Recently, there was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal; "Tea Party Turns to Local Issues," by Jennifer Levitz published in November of 2010.
The article describes a Tea Party group, of mostly all volunteers in Alabama in Harris County.
They are focusing on local events and going after some of the challenges with local governments and wasteful or irrational spending, perhaps, a counterbalance to the politically correct nonsense which has driven our nation into the ditch.
Indeed, I'd like to propose a red magic marker committee.
This is where small businesses and concerned citizens will sit down and go through the ordinances, rules, and local regulations, and start taking a red magic marker and drawing lines through the incessant and overwhelming number of laws and rules.
If we lighten the load for small businesses, we will see more people expanding their small businesses, borrowing money and buying equipment, and therefore hiring new people in the marketplace.
Each time a new person has a job - that is one more person who will be spending in the economy.
If we don't get our jobs back, we are sunk.
And maybe it's time for the tea party to take that challenge, and take that bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground.
In fact, I hope you will please consider this, and perhaps consider volunteering for a local tea party to do just that.
Think on it.
So maybe that is a good place for the tea party to start, after all, if you'll recall during the time of Ross Perot, it was a grassroots effort which changed American politics, for some unfortunately it divided the Republican Party.
This time that third-party, the tea party, has united with the Republican Party and taken over.
Things are about to change on the national level, but what about the local level? It is my contention that we need to go through all the rules and regulations at the local levels of government to get local governments off the backs of small business, so they can provide jobs.
So maybe, the tea party needs to get local, and invite the rest of the community and local government in for some tea.
Town Hall meetings with Tea! Recently, there was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal; "Tea Party Turns to Local Issues," by Jennifer Levitz published in November of 2010.
The article describes a Tea Party group, of mostly all volunteers in Alabama in Harris County.
They are focusing on local events and going after some of the challenges with local governments and wasteful or irrational spending, perhaps, a counterbalance to the politically correct nonsense which has driven our nation into the ditch.
Indeed, I'd like to propose a red magic marker committee.
This is where small businesses and concerned citizens will sit down and go through the ordinances, rules, and local regulations, and start taking a red magic marker and drawing lines through the incessant and overwhelming number of laws and rules.
If we lighten the load for small businesses, we will see more people expanding their small businesses, borrowing money and buying equipment, and therefore hiring new people in the marketplace.
Each time a new person has a job - that is one more person who will be spending in the economy.
If we don't get our jobs back, we are sunk.
And maybe it's time for the tea party to take that challenge, and take that bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground.
In fact, I hope you will please consider this, and perhaps consider volunteering for a local tea party to do just that.
Think on it.