Over the last several months, exasperated small business owners and frustrated taxpayers have, by the thousands, taken to the steps of the state Capitol in Denver to protest government waste and endless tax increases. And they keep coming back. While liberal pundits have turned to cable news channels to mock such events as “Astroturf” manifestations of deep-pocketed capitalist conspirators, such spin just isn’t going to work this time. At a Denver protest held Saturday as part of a national movement that drew hundreds of thousands of Americans out to public squares to similarly demonstrate their displeasure with America’s ever-growing, out-of-control deficit spending, Independence Institute organizers sold out of 600 flags in just three hours. Thousands of people stood in the rain waiving their homemade placards.
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I like Jessica Peck Corry and I like her positive message here. However, I am taking a more wait and see approach to see if people really have woken up to the misdeeds of the government or not. The problem as I see it is that she seems to be basing her optimism on the tea party protests. I don’t think the fact that there are protests about anything indicates that the majority of people are on the side of the protesters. There were lots of anti-war protests while Bush was the president, these have quieted since Obama has taken office. I cannot say that when the protests were happening it was an indication that the tide was turning against war. The fact that it has quieted down with the new president, indicates to me that many of the “anti-war” protesters were really “anti-Bush” protesters, and I am afraid that these “anti-tax” protests are really just “anti-Obama” protests in the same way.
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