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The big government types whine about the Tea Party movement. This is ALL 
it's about. Why is this objectionable, you may ask?

http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Mission.aspx

Tea Party Patriots Mission Statement and Core Values

Mission Statement
The impetus for the Tea Party movement is excessive government spending and 
taxation. Our mission is to attract, educate, organize, and mobilize our 
fellow citizens to secure public policy consistent with our three core 
values of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and 
Free Markets.

Core Values

    * Fiscal Responsibility
    * Constitutionally Limited Government
    * Free Markets

Fiscal Responsibility: Fiscal Responsibility by government honors and 
respects the freedom of the individual to spend the money that is the fruit 
of their own labor. A constitutionally limited government, designed to 
protect the blessings of liberty, must be fiscally responsible or it must 
subject its citizenry to high levels of taxation that unjustly restrict the 
liberty our Constitution was designed to protect. Such runaway deficit 
spending as we now see in Washington D.C. compels us to take action as the 
increasing national debt is a grave threat to our national sovereignty and 
the personal and economic liberty of future generations.

Constitutionally Limited Government: We, the members of The Tea Party 
Patriots, are inspired by our founding documents and regard the 
Constitution of the United States to be the supreme law of the land. We 
believe that it is possible to know the original intent of the government 
our founders set forth, and stand in support of that intent. Like the 
founders, we support states' rights for those powers not expressly stated 
in the Constitution. As the government is of the people, by the people and 
for the people, in all other matters we support the personal liberty of the 
individual, within the rule of law.

Free Markets: A free market is the economic consequence of personal 
liberty. The founders believed that personal and economic freedom were 
indivisible, as do we. Our current government's interference distorts the 
free market and inhibits the pursuit of individual and economic liberty. 
Therefore, we support a return to the free market principles on which this 
nation was founded and oppose government intervention into the operations 
of private business.

Our Philosophy
Tea Party Patriots, Inc. as an organization believes in the Fiscal 
Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea 
Party Patriots, Inc. is a non-partisan grassroots organization of 
individuals united by our core values derived from the Declaration of 
Independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill Of 
Rights as explained in the Federalist Papers. We recognize and support the 
strength of grassroots organization powered by activism and civic 
responsibility at a local level. We hold that the United States is a 
republic conceived by its architects as a nation whose people were granted 
"unalienable rights" by our Creator. Chiefly among these are the rights to 
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Tea Party Patriots stand 
with our founders, as heirs to the republic, to claim our rights and duties 
which preserve their legacy and our own. We hold, as did the founders, that 
there exists an inherent benefit to our country when private property and 
prosperity are secured by natural law and the rights of the individual.


-- 
- Jane Galt