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The Gannt Report

No Time For Tea!

In the American One of the disturbing aspects of the Tea Party movement
2010 election cycle, is their apparent fear of Black progress in America and
the political flavor of worldwide. Predominately white but not all-white. The
the day appears to racist Tea Party signs and slogans are not typical and
be “The Tea Party”! may be a result of “Politics Gone Wild”! And, just like
Be careful, however, “Girls Gone Wild”, the Tea Party movement has no social
because one redeeming qualities and no permanent political standing.
swallow of Tea Party Tea baggers yell “stop spending” but they can tell you what
philosophy just might government programs they would cut. They say “no more
be damaging to your taxes” but they won’t tell you how to finance billion dollar
political health. So- wars in Afghanistan or Iraq without increased taxes. Tea
called Tea Party Party or not, every registered voter should exercise their
advocates claim to be right and go to the polls on Election Day and vote for the
upset with everybody candidate that is best for you.
currently in office
from President Barack Obama all the way down to local The great African leader Samora Machel often said,
government council members and commissioners. The “You can get tea without boiling the water” and The
tea baggers may be Democrats, Republicans or registered Gantt Report says if America’s voters get hot and go to
voters with no party affiliations but one thing they all the polls and support the good politicians and vote the
have in common is their conservatism. bad guys out of office, the Tea Party will evaporate and
cease to exist! All Americans, regardless of what tea
While most Americans desire political, social and baggers say, are in the same boat, all we have is each
economic progress, the Tea Party appears to want to go other and we all have the same political problems and
back, back to the days when people of European descent the same political enemies. On Election Day don’t worry
controlled everything in America and many parts of the about the Tea Party, worry about yourself, worry about
world. Those days are over! At one time in world history, your family and worry about your community. Go to the
it was said that The British Empire, for instance, was so polls and cast your ballots for candidates that you can
big that the sun would never set on it. Now, in 2010, the access, candidates that you can communicate with and
sun can hardly shine on the fallen empire. This neo- candidates that share your desire for personal, family
conservative American Tea Party movement is not as and community progress. If you vote, the conservative
politically powerful as the media suggests that they are. Tea Party Movement will drown in the political sea just as
They are just more vocal and perhaps more active than Pharaoh’s tea baggers drowned in the Biblical Red Sea.
the masses of American voters. Election Day is no time for tea. Tea time is over!

There are not enough Tea Party members to elect
anyone. So called Tea Party candidates are benefitting
from voter apathy. Voters are so upset that their support
for candidates that called for change has not resulted in
change. People still can’t find good jobs, people still can’t
get bank loans and people still can’t pay their mortgages.
I don’t have any problem with throwing the bums out if
“the bums” are politicians that don’t stand up and speak
out on the issues that affect citizens that the politicians
represent but the Tea Part approach is not the way to do
it.

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