In 1916 the Supreme Court ruled that our wages were NOT taxable, that our trading our time and effort for money was a private exchange of goods and not taxable. The Fed holds our gold. No one know how much, if any, since we have not been allowed to see or audit it since the 1970s when we went off the gold standard.

Yes, we got the income tax in 1913 - the same year we got the Federal Reserve. When we printed our own money, we didn't need to pay interest to the Fed on every dollar printed or added on computers. The Fed is a private cartel of banks - both domestic and foreign - and unaccountable to anyone. It is no more "federal" than Federal Express. It has never been audited in its 100 years (next year) with the exception of a peek at what they did during the 2008 financial crisis (Thank you, Ron Paul). That peek revealed $16 Trillion - more than our national debt and more than we all produce in the US in a year - loaned to banks both here and abroad.

The TEA party and Occupy need to get together and protest as Americans. They are angry at the same things. Some of the Occupiers are starting to understand how detrimental the Federal Reserve is. If we can unite, we will be more effective.

And we're getting more than a little tired of being told what we want.

Nah, that's what the party "leadership" wants. The rest of the country disagrees.