Hello Tea Party,

It would seem that our situation in this community and in America is
deteriorating. Surely we all feel the frustration of a nation slipping
away from us. Slipping toward that which none of us could have ever
thought was possible just 4 months ago. Without a doubt GW Bush didn’t
make matters better. He kept the Status Quo. He kept us firmly in the
grip of a strangulating tax system and top heavy government.

Families had to work two and three jobs to make ends meet. Though many
of us were angry about it, we had little recourse with Bush and the
Spendaholic Republicans. Now under Obama many cannot even make ends
meet because the unemployment has become unmanageable and is at its
highest rate since 1983. He has ordered privately owned companies to
close as if we were living in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy of World War
Two. Our national debt is piling up, bailouts, omnibus bills and
multi-trillion dollar budgets are enormous weights.

The best economic forecasts paint a bleak picture for the rest of the
year as far as housing and inflation go. More Americans are going on
public aid than ever and to complicate that Illegal Immigrants have
increasingly strained our system to a near breaking point. Barack
Obama has made some radical moves that have stunned many Americans.
The Congress and Senate are steam rolling our people with decisions
that We the People never authorized.

My heart is truly broken for this nation as I am sure is yours. We
must halt this now, but if you feel powerless like I do, you are
probably not far off base. Yet I have hope. The Tea Party movement is
a piece of the puzzle. Many good Americans are forming constitutional
groups and coming up with ideas to make real change at a pace that is
dizzying.

At the recent Tea Party meeting we were all encouraged with the
motivation of the patriots that spoke their minds and their hearts
regarding the above issues. With the patriots in this movement the Tea
Party movement and the others that are emerging as a result of the
frenetic pace Obama has set, it is sure that we can get this country
back on track. We all have to Care and Participate.

Moving forward with the Tea Party in Rockford is not just about one
event. It is a movement that we want to stay around for a while and it
can only happen with all of us working together toward effective
change.

We will have another Tea Party meeting coming up to discuss the
preparations for the July 4th Tea Party. Progress is being made and it
is shaping up nicely. I will have some nice announcements to make for

the next meeting.
We will need to raise a little bit of money to cover all the expenses
and thus we will have a Meeting on either the 9th, 10th or 11th of
June. Please let me know what night is good for you so I can schedule
it ASAP.

Let stay together and make a difference. I hope to see all of you there.

Thanks

David Hale
Director, RockfordTeaParty