Transcript: David Hill's Tea Party Speech in Tyler Texas
How does it feel to be a part of history?!
We are all here exercising our 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech as well as the Right to Peaceably Assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And let me tell ya’ folks, I have some grievances to redress.
For the past two decades our elected officials have spent more money than they had to spend which as of September 24, 2008 had us at 9.7 trillion dollars in debt. Now just 7 months later they have spent an additional 3 trillion dollars and have taken that number to more than 11 trillion dollars in debt. Instead of taking the path of fiscal responsibility and learning from their past mistakes, they have taken on the attitude of an irresponsible child with their first bank account. That attitude says, “I can’t Be Broke---I still have checks left”. Now they have passed a new budget that will leave us more than 21 trillion dollars in debt in less than 5 years. This debt is unsustainable; the interest payments alone will be higher than the total tax dollars collected by the IRS.
This will bankrupt the United States of America and I say “No---Not on my watch”
Most people can not imagine how much money a trillion dollars is. Two weeks ago on our Make-A-Statement Radio Show we had General Jim Cash on as our guest. During the show, the General gave an example of just how much money a trillion dollars really is. He said:
You can take a million dollars in 100 dollar bills and fit it into a box 1 and a half foot by 1 and a half foot by 1 and a half foot or 1.5 cubic feet. You could probably fir a million dollars on your person stuffed here and there. You could stack a billion dollars in 100 dollar bills six feet tall into a small bedroom. Ok Folks, this is a little disturbing but a trillion dollars in 100 dollar bills stacked 6 feet tall would cover a half acre of land. The budget that just passed will cover almost two acres of land in 100 dollar bills.
Now let’s look at this, a huge portion of this money is going to people who would rather sit home and watch Oprah or Dr Phil than go to work. Another huge portion is going to people who don’t even belong in this country but our government chooses to support them. And yet another huge portion will be given to countless special interest groups like ACORN who have committed fraud upon the American People time and time again.
And people ask me why I am so mad about what is happening….Go Figure.
Now I want to take a look at the so called stimulus disaster. What did they do? Did they all sit down over drinks and come up with a plan? I can see it….They are all sitting around….it’s kinda quiet…one of them mentions something about the United Nations….then all of the sudden, a light shines down on them ….and in that brilliant flash the idea strikes them…. Let’s take money from the Economy then put it back into the Economy and tax it on the way through!....Yea! That should work!!
Now let me draw you another picture:
Imagine yourself standing in front of a swimming pool with a deep and a shallow end. Now imagine yourself taking a 5 gallon bucket and walking over to the deep end and scooping up a bucket of water. Now take this bucket of water and walk to the shallow end and pour the water into the shallow end. Now I want you to do this until the shallow end is as deep as the deep end. This is their plan…Oh, Wait! I forgot to tell you that on your way to the shallow end you must pour half the water into another pool called taxes and still make the shallow end match the deep end with half the water you started with. Got the picture?
1773 a small group of people sent a loud message to the King of England by dumping a boat load of Tea into the Atlantic. The message was that they were not going to continue paying Taxes to a government addicted to money. The money these men worked hard to earn. Their cry was “No Taxation without Representation”
Here we are on April 15th 2009 in Tyler Texas. What brings us here today? A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ADDICTED TO MONEY. OUR GOVERNMENT IS SPENDING MONEY OUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL STILL BE PAYING FOR. This is not the legacy I want to hand to my children, not a legacy of debt.
A very large part of what our government in Washington DC is doing today is Un-Constitutional. All of the Bailouts, Stimulus Packages, and massive spending sprees are unconstitutional. Furthermore, nowhere in our Constitution does it give our elected officials the authority to use our tax dollars to purchase or bail out any company or institution regardless of their importance to our Economy. We are not the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Red China. We are a free nation whose government is controlled by the people. Not an elite few who operate above the Constitution and care more about their position of power than the people they were elected to serve.
We stand here today united under a common cause. We have come together to send our leaders in Washington a message. That message is “Don’t Tread On Me”
Right now I am standing here not as a Republican or a Democrat. I am standing here as an American Citizen who is being taxed to death. The decisions being made today in Washington DC are directly affecting me, my children, my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren. In our government’s attempt to convert the United States of America into a Socialist Nation, they are shredding the very Freedoms our Founding Fathers gave their lives for. I for one will not sit quietly by and watch them destroy the greatest nation on planet Earth.
Our Founding Fathers’ passed down the mantle of Freedom to us and it is our responsibility to pass these same freedoms down to our future generations.
Untold thousands have given their lives for the Freedoms we hold dear and I will not allow their sacrifice to be in vein.
If Freedom Requires my voice, I will give it!
If Freedom Requires my time, I will give it!
And if the cause of Freedom demands my life, I will give it.
Our country is in big trouble and the solution is us,…”We The People”
The Change we need in Washington did not come with the last election, it can only come when the good people of the United States of America stand up and in one loud shout tell our elected officials “NO”.
I want to leave you with the words of our 20th President James A Garfield spoken in 1876.
“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . [I]f the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
God Bless and God Bless America