Location Set for Rapid City Tax Day Tea Party

By Bob Ellis on April 2nd, 2009

tb42The planning committee for Rapid City’s Tax Day Tea Party met at noon today and a location for the event was locked in: Memorial Park in Rapid City.

The event will be from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm on April 15.  We plan to meet in the area of Memorial Park around the intersection of 5th Street and Omaha Street (please park in the Civic Center Parking lot or other safe area).  The group will then walk a short distance over to the Bandshell in Memorial Park where the speakers/program will be featured.

The group has already taken up a considerable amount of financial donations among the members, more will still be needed to pay for insurance (several hundred dollars at least) for the event and a few other incidentals.  If you are interested in donating to the cause, email me here for more information (I’m not the treasurer, by the way :-) )

Information will be going out to the media very soon, and you will see signs, fliers, bumper stickers and other messages about this historic occasion!

Though the event will be on a Wednesday work-day (April 15) we set the event during the noon hour so that even those who have to work can come by over their lunch hour and tell Washington D.C. what they think of the irresponsible government coming out of the halls of our government.

If you’re a homeschooling family, come on by and bring the children.  What a great live opportunity to provide a lesson in civics, government and citizenship!

Be sure to bring a sign (family friendly) to express your thoughts; you can find some suggested slogans here.  You can get poster board for about 50 cents, and just stick it on a stick or hold it.  You can also get buttons, signs, and other paraphernalia here and here and other locations.

More than 700 Tax Day Tea Parties are scheduled around the country, with more being added all the time.  You can find a map of most locations here.  Other South Dakota tea parties include Spearfish, Tea, Yankton, and Sioux Falls.

It’s time patriotic Americans stood up against the trashing and disregard for the United States Constitution.  Republican, Democrat, Independent, Conservative, Constitution, Libertarian, or whatever–we’re all Americans and the time is NOW to call for an end to this break-neck plunge over a cliff.

Why do we do this?  Though our sacrifice is not nearly so great as our forefathers, it is for the same reason cited by President Abraham Lincoln:

…that government of the people by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth.

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  • Mac
    As the President’s budget reaches Congress, may I add some interesting insights into the G-20 London Summit that has taken place in the past couple of days: I find that the President has a great plan that in time may prove to help shorten this already deep recession. It’s quite admirable of him to stress the importance of listening and how that has been lacking in leadership for quite sometime as we’ve witnessed from the many failed business leaders and former political leaders. These issues will take time to solve since the mess took decades in the making. So, I’m going to let time be the decider in all of this. After all, the President is involving our allies around the world in a way we have not seen for quite sometime. Instead of dictating the terms of a failed unilateral policy of the past, the President is taking an approach that will require us all to work together and be committed to the success. We all have an investment in this endeavor whether we choose to or not to participate.
  • Yeah, Obama's listening alright--to Karl Marx.

    In most cases I would not advise an American president to listen to a European. Current events have, however, conspired to produce an exception.

    Obama should be heeding the words of MEP Daniel Hannan to PM Gordon Brown (because they are just as applicable to Obama and the United States): "You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."

    America was built to operate on limited government and a free market. We have showered both with contempt for decades, and we are now reaping the crop...and instead of learning the lesson, President Obama and his Democrat congress are cranking the shower up higher.

    Which is why the people must tell them in a loud voice on April 15 what they are too obstinate to see on their own.
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