Update: Now we have to deal with the malicious and hate filled who are openly recruiting people to crash tea party gatherings and rallies in order to incite violence and discredit the movement as evidenced by the now defunct website "crashtheteaparty.org". The only free speech they want is their own.

As we count down to tax day on April 15th, I am once again reminded of an article I wrote last year about the first Tea Party I attended called Tax Tea Party a GOP PR Effort?. Things haven't improved much since then, in fact by some measures things have actually gotten worse - with little hope of reform in the near term. The national debt and budget deficit numbers are so staggering that even the best educated and concerned citizen may really have little idea exactly how dire the nations financial condition actually is and can almost be excused for simply tuning out entirely. That is however fodder for a separate article.

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