The New Tea Party

This summer has been crazy as I have watched massive amounts of news coverage from topics and issues such as the Oil Spill, Jobs in the U.S., now another concern that has caught my attention is the Tea Party well "The New Tea Party." Most people are familiar with the Boston Tea Party of December 1773 if you paid attention in history class back in middle school or high school.  Honestly everyone knows about the Tea Party or should have an idea. It has now reemerged in the early part of the 21st century due to the fact that Rick Santelli, a CNBC commentator had an outburst @ Chicago's Mercantile Exchange. So following that incident the name gained momentum and clearly caught on sometime last summer in 2009 the Tea Party groups took root across the country. In April '09 Tea-Party members staged anti-tax protests across the country. So last summer they held rallies that often drew thousands of participants aimed on particular at the Obama health care plan, the emblem of all they prefer.  The first Tea Party Convention was held earlier this year in February in Nashville, TN. Eventually the movement had reached a tipping point when a demonstration at a mall in Washington September 12 according to the people in attendance it was the biggest conservative protest in modern American history.
                                                                                          

         
With that being said I am going to break some things down so you can understand why this is important and so you can be ready in November. Most of these protesters are calling President Obama a socialist and have constantly said they are against socialism in the U.S. For those who don't know this is what socialism means. Socialism is defined as any various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. To simply put it ; socialism is a system of society or group living in which there is no private property.