Overheard at the Capitol
According to estimates, some 500-750 average folks who are fed up with government spending steroids that puts our children and grandchildren into crushing debt showed up on the west steps of the Capitol to make their voices heard! Glad my children and I were among them!
After the rally, I waited in line to pass through security so I could go inside. This is the conversation I overheard:
Former State Senator Ken Gordon: “Why are all these people here?”
Unidentified woman in line, laughingly responds: “They didn’t find the stimulus bill very stimulating. They were protesting.”
Gordon, very seriously states: “But there are so many of them!”
It’s difficult for some on the left to grasp that average working people are angry about the fact that with the mere stroke of a pen President Barack Obama and his Democrat colleagues just put every single American family into debt by more than $30,000 each. It’s unacceptable, and those of us who showed up at the Capitol won’t take it anymore.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I was surprised after attending the rally at the State Capital, no one proposed a plan and course of action. Everyone attending should have signed a petition demanding e-verify and the mass of people should have handed it to the Governor
February 19th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Of course there was no plan and course of action. Just a bunch of people like Jon Caldara and Dick Wadhams standing up on stage next to a swastika-waving guy, trying to incite fear rather than proposing rational alternatives or solutions. Jon Caldara and Dick Wadhams don’t care about your problems. As you saw Tuesday, all they want to do is tell you is who’s to blame for them. and what you should be afraid of.
Oh, and by the way Mrs. Cooke, the $30,000 figure you cited is factually inaccurate. Please produce the calculation by which you arrived at it. Can’t do it, can you? If you’re going to copy talking points from the Heritage Foundation, you should do so accurately, and with attribution.