It's Our Own Fault
The focus of the hundreds of "Tea Parties" held across America on Wednesday was largely on bad government policies like bailouts of companies that deserve to fail. The massive debt being taken on protects the political and economic establishment from the necessary reforms that need to be made in order to ensure our success in this cyber-age. But some attention was paid to the gross incompetence on the state level, as evidenced by this sign at the Springfield rally photographed by Bill Dusty.
Massachusetts is also in a fiscal crisis, and our state electorate has no one to blame but themselves.
Now of course the state is crying that they need an increase in the Massachusetts state sales tax to compensate for their mismanagement. Let our voices be heard - NOT ONE MORE CENT!
File under "Unintended Irony" this photo by Bill Peters of the message on the electronic sign at the post office where the Springfield Tea Party took place.
This Bill Dusty video captures the feel of the event, but also reveals a flaw in the planning - the reciting of a long laundry list of political causes that was unnecessarily partisan and distracted from the major issues. Focus people, FOCUS!
Great Art
UMass 70's cartooning legend Steve Lafleur has a host of new products online. Such as paintings:
And T-shirts (as modeled below by his son Max).
Some of us who knew Steve in the 70's are surprised that he became someone who could get married and reproduce. Check out more of the wonderful world of Steve by clicking here.
Bikers
Outside the UMass library I saw this retro-bike that reminded me of the bicycles my sisters used to have many years ago.
This is the sort of thing the girls of Pine Point used to do - decorate their bike by carrying sunflowers around in a cheap wicker basket.
When I got to the Amherst Survival Center, Mark was doing bike leaps in the parking lot.
Monikers
I don't know anything about the bands on this poster that's plastered all over the place, but they have cool names.
2 comments:
I don't think thats what Bill W, Ebby, and Dr Bob had in mind as far as step 9 is concerned.
Tommy, on the video I shot:
I thought myself that the launrdy list of common conservative complaints kind of veered away from the reason many folks may have attended. There were actually 26 "demands" in total (if I recall correctly).
There were also a few flat-tax promoters and some Lyndon Laroache guys there peddling brochures and magazines.
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