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Dayton Tea Party rally one of many across the country

Demonstrators hold signs to protest increasing government spending during the TEA Party on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton on Wednesday, April 15.

Staff photo by Teesha McClam Demonstrators hold signs to protest increasing government spending during the TEA Party on Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton on Wednesday, April 15.

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By Christa Butts and Steve Bennish, Staff Writers Updated 10:33 AM Thursday, April 16, 2009

DAYTON — A crowd estimated to be several thousand strong spent a chilly two hours Wednesday, April 15, protesting government spending at a TEA Party on Courthouse Square.

Speakers invoked the names of Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson to make their points in wide-ranging speeches that cast government in general as the bad guy amid popular anger after the meltdowns among Wall Street brokerages, banks and insurance companies.

Although about a third of the signs protested against President Barack Obama’s administration, organizers said the TEA Party was nonpartisan.

The event was created in protest of what organizers call “runaway government spending.”

Rob Scott, one of the organizers, said petitions would be circulated in the crowd calling for the repeal of economic stimulus funding or for governments agencies to refuse to accept stimulus funding.

Rallies across the nation were directed at the Obama administration on a symbolic day: the deadline to file income taxes.

The closing speaker was state Rep. Seth Morgan, R-Huber Heights.

“A runaway government is a government that will run over us all,” Morgan told the throng, adding that the president, Gov. Ted Strickland and other politicians will lead the nation into a spiral “we’ll pay for years to come.”

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Its been decades since the federal government has seen a nickle of our "income tax" money.
The government knew this back in the 80's, at least. Want proof....
President's survey on cost control- January 15, 1984.... page 12. also known as the Grace Commission. Look it up.
This, as I stated earlier, is just the tip of the iceburg. Better to do something than to sit on your butt poking at the people who are trying to do something.

mel
12:56 AM, 4/27/2009

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The IRS (private buisiness) steals money from you and me in the form of income tax(unconstitutional),gives it to the Federal reserve bank-Fed-(private buisiness, uncostitutional)the federal reserve gives the largest part to the government.
But, the interest the government owes the Fed from borrowing from them is more than what is collected in income tax. the reason the national debt keeps going up. Thats just the tip of the iceburg. Look it up!

mel
12:12 AM, 4/27/2009

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The IRS, income tax, department of education, the federal reserve bank......on and on and on, are all unconstitutional. We haven't even had a legitamate congressman since 1913.
The 16th, 17th amendments were never ratified by the states, even though the federal government "says" they were. Its history, its fact. Thats the reason for all the problems we have today.."..a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." They have not obeyed the supreme law of the land ..The Constitution.

mel
8:50 PM, 4/26/2009

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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"---James Madison.
"Do not seperate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a bastardized form of illegitimate government." James Madison-- What we have today!

mel
8:35 PM, 4/26/2009

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The "Bill of Rights" was part of the deal during the "Constitutional Convention" because a number of the states feared, threatening not to sign on, (with the way the constitution was written) would give the federal government to much power (what we have today). Details to be determined at a later date.It is very clear in the transcripts and various letters between the founding fathers that they tried to do all they could to prevent what we have today.

mel
8:19 PM, 4/26/2009

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