Meagan Wiseley, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

The FreedomWorks Foundation is sponsoring a three day event that will give grassroots conservatives the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with government spending to Congress. The September 12 “March On Washington” will be the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives in history, with tens of thousands expected.

In a conference call Wedneday to promote the event, FreedomWorks President and CEO Matt Kibbe said, “I do think that our theme of ‘government goes to those who show up’ is relevant here. We’ve seen lots of Americans leave their homes and come to townhall meetings and come to Washington.”

September 9th and 10th will be dedicated to workshops, training seminars and rallies. Fiscal conservatives will also have the opportunity to address their congressmen during lobbying visits to Capitol Hill.

Jenny Beth Martin with The Tea Party Patriots, who also participated in Wednesday’s conference call, said of her fellow patriots, “They think it’s time for their elected officials to pay attention to what they have to say. They will have that opportunity on Thursday and Friday while they are in D.C.”

The three day event will begin Thursday September 9th.

“Global warming might be, in fact, one of the most hyped fictions in America today,” says former Majority Leader Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX). He went on to say that the “most treasured umbrella objectives in public policy” right now are to “create the illusion of a crisis and then…demonstrate the need for their policies of government growth and income redistribution as a resolution of the crisis.” Armey concludes that global warming and the health care crisis are “high-profile fictions designed to serve the political purposes of the majority party.” (0:45)

 

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For every green job created, two jobs will be destroyed says former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX). Armey adds that “what global warming public policy is really all about is the artificial creation of increased scarcity of what is probably the most high linkage resource in America and the world.” (0:27)

 

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