First and Foremost Our Principles

We must be united around our basic principles, Fiscal Responsibility, the Constitution, Constitutional-limited Government, and Personal Freedom. These things entail a certain responsibility on the part of the people, as well, to curtail the government feeling the need to overstep its bounds.

First, fiscal responsibility entails two different things. Number 1, we want honesty and truth about all spending in the government. Is a particular earmark relevant to all the people of the United States? The backroom dealings and money laundering from the federal government must be brought to light. Number 2, we want to proof that the spending is necessary and that the government is following basic practicable economic principles. We see massive, growing national debt, increased spending that is supposed to draw us out of the economic crisis, and job-loss, which means a lack of revenue for the federal government. The federal government is borrowing from the Chinese to pay for its spending habit, ie borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. What are the details on that loan, and how soon do we intend to have this paid off.

Second, the Constitution, as written, is the source of the powers of the federal government. It does not change based on the thought processes that currently in power, and it should be revered, with everything the government does firmly justified by the wording of the Constitution. It is the document of the will of the people, and not open for interpretation, but rather what all governmental actions are to be judged by.

Third, a Constitutionally-limited government is one that bases all its actions and powers on the Constitution, with no exceptions. It cannot overstep its bounds, or simply put the Constitution aside for the sake of expediency. It responds to the will of the people, within specified confines of the Constitution, and where it is not the government's specified job, it does not interfere in the process of the states. It there solely to protect the nation as a whole, and ensure a level of uninamity between the states, not to take over their responsibilities.

Fourth, individual rights and freedoms were extensively written about during the founding of the nation. They were specfically guaranteed in the Constitution, to ensure that the government would never impinge upon them. Most of the specific rights were written about in the Anti-Federalist paper, were the Bill of Rights orginated. In cases where the government steps on the rights of the people, it must retreat and leave those rights to the people.

These are the basic founding principles of the Tea Party Movement, and why the people of the movement struggle against the government. Now that we have established this. I will move onto basic solutions based on these principles and the implementations of these solutions.