TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--November 16, 2011         
CONTACT: Lynn Childs, CCTA Tea Party Chairman
                     Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association

                     (252-402-0333) lynn.ccta@gmail.com

Tea Party to “Deal in the District” with Local Representatives

Activists to Demand Real, Gimmick-Free Spending Cuts

NEW BERN, NC – On Thursday at noon local time, members of the Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest grassroots organization, will visit their representatives in the House of Representatives in district offices across the country to demand they and the so-called “Super Committee” show fiscal responsibility and make real spending cuts, not accounting gimmicks. Activists are encouraged to RSVP for the “Deal in the District” at http://www.teapartypatriots.org/event/deal-in-the-district/.

“Our local Patriots will be bringing their concerns in-person to their representatives in Congress to demand they listen to our demands for real spending cuts, now,” said Lynn Childs of Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association. “It will be up to them to respond.”

“We want real cuts, not the phantom, fake cuts which are standard procedure for a Congress quick to posture as champions of debt and deficit reduction,” said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.

“Reducing the government’s future spending is not a real cut,” said Mark Meckler, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “Tea Party Patriots demand gimmick-free reductions in federal spending in the Super Committee’s November 23 plan. Activists across the country know we are headed the way of Greece if we do not immediately face fiscal reality.”

Activists are encouraged to tell their Member of Congress:

• We want REAL spending cuts. No more gimmicks, no more lies. Make real cuts and prioritize!
• Increasing spending more slowly than someone else is still increasing spending.
• When you increase spending by $5 and then cut $3, you haven’t made a cut. Your total spending is still $2 higher than it was before. This is a gimmick. Stop it. Now.
• If you say you’re cutting $3, then cut $3. This year. (And in case it’s not clear to your Rep., $3 is an example. A whole lot more than $3 needs to be cut!)
• All of the so-called cuts passed by Congress always get spread out over ten years, but this Congress has no authority over the next Congress and those cuts from this year can easily be overturned. Therefore, real cuts are cuts that occur within in the same fiscal year.
• Our country’s national debt has now surpassed our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Now is the time for real cuts, not fake cuts.
• We see what is happening to Greece and Italy, and to the Eurozone in general. It is the responsibility of elected officials to make real cuts now.

Tea Party Patriots is a national grassroots coalition with more than 3,300 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide. Tea Party Patriots is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Visit Tea Party Patriots online at www.TeaPartyPatriots.org.

The Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association, a grassroots, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, advocates minimum government and maximum freedom. We are dedicated to the preservation of free enterprise and the United States Constitution.  Excessive taxation upon citizens is unconstitutional, immoral, and a complete contradiction of success through the free market system.  We are dedicated to serve our community, our state, and our country by oversight, research, public education and advocacy in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.  Visit CCTA online at www.cctaxpayers.com.

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