Not angry by nature, but pushed to limit

I was at the same tea party that Russell Lissau attended at Cook Park in Libertyville on July 5. In a sense, Lissau is correct about the anger expressed. The speakers and attendees are angry at the direction of both our state and federal governments with their insane spending that has created severe deficits. We are angry that our basic freedoms are under assault.

The mostly gray-haired crowd who braved the heat to express their concerns are not naturally angry people. We love the country our forefathers bequeathed to us. We are the folks who have raised successful families, worked, paid taxes, volunteered at our churches and schools and lived within our means. Many in attendance were men who served in the military, who put their lives on hold or at risk for the sake of our common defense.

We just want to enjoy the fruits of our labors, not have to worry about how our life's savings will be taxed or inflated away or our lives cut short by being denied health benefits due to the rationing that is to come under the new health reform act.

The Obama administration and Congress are doing everything wrong to reverse the recession. Obama is doing nothing to alleviate the oil spill in the Gulf. He is alienating our allies in the world while bowing to and kissing dictators and tyrants who openly threaten us.

Obstacles are being put in the way of us accessing our abundant energy resources, while taxing us to subsidize energy "options" that are excessively costly, undependable, and not easily available - all in the guise of saving the environment. The global warming fraud has been exposed worldwide, yet the EPA and Congress are poised to enact draconian energy regulations that are unneeded and which will make the country less competitive, poorer and less free.

We see that our southern border is not enforced; we are faced with an invasion of mostly uneducated, desperate people who are invited to help themselves to jobs under the table and to our tax-supported social benefits, while feeling no obligation to support the government programs they use. Further, some of their radicals call for returning our border states to Mexico!

We have been a nation that has sent aid to other countries for generations, yet we are being castigated by our political and religious leaders and the press for being racists because we don't want to become a de facto bilingual country with all the tensions that exist when people do not share a common culture, common values, common language.

We are worried about our country's future because we have children and grandchildren we love for whom we want the rights of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution left intact; not twisted by legislators and judges who lie when they take the oath of office to uphold the Constitution by considering it a "living document."

We don't want our descendants to become slaves to the debt being piled on their backs!

Margaret McCarthy

Libertyville