Chicago Tea Party
There was a small revolt yesterday on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Exchange. CNBC’s Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CBOE expressed outrage over the notion they may have to pay their neighbor’s mortgage, particularly if they bought far more house than they could actually afford.
You can vote today. Would you support the Chicago Tea Party? Over 148,099 people have voted as of yesterday. Let’s see if we can get that to a million this afternoon.
What Readers are Saying:
The plan is a discrace! I pay my mortgage and bills on time. I live on a fixed income. I find it tough each month to make ends meet, but do. I did not go out and buy a home I could not afford. No one is helping ME! The Bleeding heart Democrats might as well give the country away. God Bless Rick Santelli!! —Steve
Why are the very people who never seem to do the right things, being rewarded with my tax dollars? This country has come to the point where there is no incentive to do what’s right! … The government should be rewarding the successful people, not making them out to be the villain and confiscating their tax dollars,to redistribute it to the people living above their means! — David
Here is the message Obama and Congress are sending: Work hard, pay your bills on time, and you will be penalized by having your hard-earned money reward those who wallow in irresponsibility and have a total disdain for those who play by the rules. — Kathy
The Obama housing plan is absolutely ridiculous. As a disabled person, I could not afford to buy a home after housing prices took off. To think that if I had bought above my means the government would have paid my mortgage makes me now feel like a jerk. — Rob
I paid off my mortgage this month. What a mistake, I should have just sat back and demanded that the government [taxpayers] help me. I’m being punished for being successful and doing what was once deemed right. — Don
It’s not fair to the TAXPAYERS! We’ll never get out of this mess! We need to get back to the ones, that started this mess. They need to ALL go to prison! — Betty
Obama says there are no earmarks in the stimulus bill. He lied. There are 9000. The only thing the pig bill stimulates is the government. It is a pay off to Obama’s supporters, it grows government, it grows the democratic party, it reads like the great society of LBJ’s time. It wreaks havoc on our financial system and the very liberals who profess to wanting to protect the rights of children are spending my children’s money. It is sick and it is wrong. There is very little actual stimulus to the economy and the market see right through it. Our very liberty is at stake here, folks. Take my money, and you pretty much have me by the balls.
Well, genius: Maybe you’re not as lazy and/or stupid as Limbaugh and Hannity, and can actually use CTRL+F to find that mouse, or that maglev train.
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So, on Friday, we gonna see a bunch of youse at Leg Plaza, gettin’ teabagged, sitting in your nice, warm SUVs, honkin’ like you just don’t care?
I’ll be taking pictures!
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