Cap and trade got you sweating bullets as you wonder how you’re going to pay for a proposed 90 percent increase in your electric bill?
The government takeover of two-thirds of the domestic auto production and a White House czar overseeing executive paychecks worry you?
The publication of the CIA’s terrorist interrogation methods caused you to cancel that trip to New York City and Washington, D.C.?
Don’t just sit at home a fret about it. Join a growing number of people who plan to attend Beeville’s second Tea Party this Friday on the north lawn of the courthouse.
The event begins at 6 p.m. and will continue for at least a couple of hours as a number of speakers are allowed to sound off about the tsunami of “hope and change” that has come out of the nation’s capital in the last six months.
Virginia Pendley, one of the organizers of Bee County’s first Tea Party on April 15, said at least five or six people already have signed up to speak at the event. And she expects more to speak after the event begins.
This time, since the courthouse will be closed, she expects the speakers to have a public address system. That will make it easier for people to hear what citizens have to say about “the issues that we face,” Pendley said.
“We will have performances, musical performances and we’ll sing patriotic songs at intervals,” Pendley said this week.
But mostly the event will be a chance for local citizens to sound off and for those who are interested in recent events but who are not inclined to speak to nod in agreement, nudge his or her neighbor and comment, “Wish I’d said that.”
Organizers Robert Bridge, Pendley, Bettye Seviere and Ann Allard met at Pendley’s home Monday morning to finalize plans for the protest.
Bridge, who is prominent in the Republican Party in Bee County, has repeatedly stressed the fact that the tea parties are not Republican events. They are open to members of all parties and all elements of the community who are concerned with the enormous power grab the federal government has been undertaking since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20.
The American Petroleum Institute has predicted that cap and trade, passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives, will push the price of gasoline to more than $4 a gallon and cause the loss of millions of jobs.
The Heritage Foundation has predicted that the bill, if passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by Obama, will reduce the gross domestic product by $9.4 trillion by 2035 and boost electric utility rates by 90 percent, adjusted for inflation. The foundation said the legislation will increase the total energy bill of the average family by $1,241 and add $28,728 to each person’s already staggering federal debt.
The health care bill being pushed in Congress is expected to cost American taxpayers at least $1 trillion between 2010 and 2019 and still leave 37 million people uninsured.
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