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IMPORTANT MEETINGS
The Roane County Tea Party meets every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month
at the Kingston Community Center
7 p.m.
201 Patton Ferry Rd, Kingston, TN 37763
www.kingstonparks.com
Kingston Parks phone - 865-376-9476.
Newsmakers Update:
Herman Cain
appeared at
Roane County Community College,Harriman, Tennessee
October 15
Please click on this link to view a news video clip
from WATE 6 News, Knoxville, Tennessee, showing Mr. Cain's visit.
Highlights of this RCTP sponsored event coming soon.
The Roane County Tea party does not endorse Herman Cain or any other candidate but rather presents candidates as
an ongoing commitment to voter education.
Gary Johnston of the Roane County Tea Party wrote a Letter To the Editor that was published
in the Knoxville News Sentinel a couple of weeks ago. Here's a copy of his letter:
"Anyone with a grain of intelligence understands what is really going on with this operation. This is a coordinated effort by the Obama administration to remove the citizens right to bear arms in this country.
Some months ago Obama was talking about the illegal weapons flowing into Mexico from gun dealers in the U.S. and how something had to be done about it when, in reality, ninety per cent of the weapons coming into Mexico come from South America. At the same time Eric Holders office was directing the Fast & Furious operation where some 2500 weapons were sold by reluctant gun dealers in different States to individuals that the dealers knew should not be able to buy. The dealers were directed to sell the guns to the individuals by the A.T.F. agents who assured the dealers that the guns were being tracked and were part of a sting operation.
During this same period our Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton, was, and is still negotiating with the U.N. over a Small Arms Treaty that she will bring back to Congress to get them to agree to.
This administration has been working on this scheme for the past two years. What they had not counted on was the two U.S. agents getting killed with some of these weapons that were left at the scene and traced back to the gun dealers who started talking. This investigation has made it all the way to Eric Holders office and is now at the doorstep of the Presidents office.
I still have hope that the citizens of this country will finally wake up and see how really evil this President is."
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Congressional Update
August, 2011
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Bob Tonachio of the Roane County Tea Party wrote a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander.
Here's a copy of the Senator's reply and Bob's response.
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August 4, 2011
Mr. Bob Tonachio
Kingston, TN
Dear Mr. Tonachio:
Thanks very much for getting in touch with me and for letting me know what's on your mind regarding the budget and the debt limit.
On August 2, 2011, I supported the debt reduction agreement, formally known as the Budget Control Act, because at a time when the federal government is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends, this is a welcome change in behavior that I am glad to support. Make no mistake, this is a change in behavior-from spend, spend, spend to cut, cut, cut.
For the first time, for every dollar we are raising the debt ceiling, we are reducing spending by a dollar-not adding to it. This reduction in spending is about $2.4 trillion over ten years. If Congress did this kind of dollar-for-dollar reduction in spending every time a president asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling, we'd balance the budget in ten years. And balancing the budget is exactly what our goal should be. That's what I did every year as governor of Tennessee. Families in America do it every day.
It is time to balance the government's books and live within our means. These spending reductions are an important step-but they are just one step-and no one should underestimate how difficult the next steps will be. These spending cuts do almost nothing to restructure Medicare and Social Security so that seniors and future generations can count on them and taxpayers can afford them. This problem wasn't created overnight, and it won't be solved overnight. This was an opportunity to take an important step in the right direction-toward stopping Washington from spending money it doesn't have.
I'm grateful you took the time to let me know where you stand. I'll be sure to keep your comments in mind as the debt limit and spending issues are discussed and debated in Washington and in Tennessee.
Sincerely,
Lamar
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Senator Alexander.... Thank you for your response!
Too bad we are holding back on taking positive steps to immediately reduce the debt load. We could do this by reducing the size of unnecessary government agencies and departments.
Strange we don't hear more about savings and debt reduction via slashing boated, job killing, government agencies from the RINO's.
Oh Well... Let's all fiddle and compromise as the country burns!
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