Comments on: Update II: Trader Joe’s Tea Party

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:20:54 +0000

Here’s the point missed by media naysayers who rail against the splendid Santelli: Our spending addictions both at home and abroad are pushing this country out of first place on the world stage. Pat Buchanan, in his recent excellent commentary, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=89470, does a great job explaining the correlation between a country’s share of world product and its international prestige.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how loudly the PC crowd screams against Santelli. There is a larger world we need to succeed in. If we refuse to make the tough choices we need do that, we’re going down.

By: John Danforth

John Danforth — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:45:39 +0000

Hooray for Rick. I just hope they don’t fire him. The only reason I ever tune into that channel is to check the price of gold and silver, hear how far the market tanked, and listen for his tidbits.

A few weeks ago, he even got a plug in for Atlas Shrugged. My kind of guy!

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:20:58 +0000

Who can I send the bill for my stock market losses over the last year – where’s MY bailout?? Actually, I certainly do not consider myself entitled to one but I resent those who believe that others should pay for their bad judgements. Sadly, Jefferson was wrong about liberty being “self-evident” – for every
Santilli, there are hundreds of Krugmans. The Universities, the media, the lobbyists, and the Congress are all stuffed with blowhard socialists to whom liberty and personal responsibility are utterly meaningless if it interferes with their governmental political power.

By: Andrew T.

Andrew T. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:33:25 +0000

The acceptable range of political discussion is now narrowed to whose statist program will most efficiently be a welfare nanny. People no longer try to laugh off the politically organic, the local, the sacrosanctness of liberty, because in truth they have all but forgotten that such ideas exist and have legitimacy.

By: nemov

nemov — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:19:48 +0000

The Santelli rant made my day. The fact that the guys on the floor were cheering him on made it even better. During the Great Depression FDR badgered Wall Street until investment froze. We can’t let that happen again.