Thomas Paine - Now is the Right Time, Join a Tea Party

Thomas Paine is back!!! "The time for talk is over. In an unprecedented moment of citizen response not seen in recent history since December 7, 1941 millions of your fellow Americans, neighbors, friends, relatives will bring their anger and their determination into the streets from Bakersfield to Bangor, Maine, from Indianapolis to Dallas in National Tea Parties protesting much more than taxation without representation. They are rising above their differences. They're marching not as republicans or democrats or black or white, or right wing or left wing. They're marching as Americans!"

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[icarusearthbound]

I don't think Paine would be a tea bagger if he were alive. He thought of himself as a world citizen (so he's not a nationalist) He advocated a tax on the wealthy to pay for the revolution as well a subsides to the poor (sounds like socialism) and he was an athiest. This guy should have chosen one of the Adams he'd make of alot more sense.

[SamWiseGingy]

@icarusearthbound But Glenn Beck says he is the modern day Thomas Paine, because Thomas Paine had so much "Common Sense". Of course by common sense Paine meant reason while Beck believes common sense is anything that pops into his head.

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 Also if the Fathers were so Right-Wing? Why would they have put freedom of religion in the Bill of rights? That meant they were Secularists. Why would they even have one? The fact that the Tea Party is funded by the Kochs and many of their protests have been against things that would benefit the protesters themselves. Yelling that Obama is a Socialist. Yeah a socialist who is the puppet of Wall Street and the big banks.

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 "Create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property." Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice."

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 "It is painful to see old age working itself to death, in what are called civilised countries, for daily bread... pay to every such person of the age of fifty years ... the sum of six pounds per annum out of the surplus taxes, and ten pounds per annum during life after the age of sixty... This support, as already remarked, is not of the nature of a charity but of a right."

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 Here's another quote to why he was a "Socialist." "Pay as a remission of taxes to every poor family, out of the surplus taxes, and in room of poor-rates, four pounds a year for every child under fourteen years of age"

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 Deist! He was a Deist! Also that quote was originally said by Henry David Thoreau not Thomas Paine. This is what Paine said "Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds." Also the guy would be against the Tea Party because they are puppets of Oligarchs. Also the founders would not approve of why the Tea Party exists.

[JackyB92]

@Trickishismael360 Was he though? Just because he was an atheist does not automatically make him a socialist, he is credited with saying "That government is best which governs least" - doesn't sound very socialist to me. Although I will give you the benefit of the doubt, he was certainly to the left (in the modern day sense) of the majority of the founding fathers but I would have to conclude his beliefs are closer to the more sensible elements of the Tea Party than progressives.

[Trickishismael360]

@JackyB92 The guy was a socialist. And he was extremely anti-religious. And the guy was the reason for starting the French revolution.

[JackyB92]

@Trickishismael360 Liberal in the classical sense not the modern quasi-socialist sense, Thomas Paine's beliefs are certainly closer to the Tea Party than progressives.