Tea Party solutions come from individual

I have been to several Tea Party events and have never seen or heard of the Council of Conservative Citizens. I have never heard any racist statements uttered by Tea Party leaders.

Like myself, the vast majority of Tea Party participants are hard-working people who are deeply concerned about the proposed policies of the Obama administration. We oppose his avowed progressive goals to bring transformational change by redistributing the wealth, taking over whole industries, bankrupting our nation with massive spending programs, increasing the size and scope of government and turning our health care over to government bureaucrats.

To understand the Tea Party movement, I suggest that you read Mark Levin's best-seller, “Liberty and Tyranny.” Levin clearly delineates that our society is divided between those who find their security in their own efforts as opposed to those who find their security in the state.

President Barack Obama and politicians like him exploit the insecurities of people for political power. We are tired of politicians who play the class warfare game and divide our country. They keep too many black people on the plantation by reinforcing the notion that they cannot succeed because they are victims; that they need the government to help them because they cannot do it on their own.

Rick David

North Liberty