Hi Cheezo01:

Welcome to JPF and this thread Ben started. It's always good to hear what others think or believe. To my knowledge, although I am a conservative, I have never met a Tea Party follower, organizer or member. I know they exist and I applaud their right to believe in what they want. Who knows, I might be a candidate if our two major parties can't get their acts together.

I noticed something you stated and would like to clarify who actually began the colonization of what eventually became the United States. Raliegh's colony on the coast of what is now North Carolina was first... but appears to have been assimilated into the native population and vanished. Jamestown Virginia was next... and thrived. Virginia was the first organized governing body of this country and were thus, "The Founding Fathers." Although we owe a great deal to the Puritans who arrived much later, this is a popular but mistaken common historical belief.

I sure like alot of your ideas about reduced taxation and incentives for corporations to create jobs here in the U.S.

Although there is a modicum of mistrust of Muslims in this Country founded from an original Christian collection of Colonies, I welcome their presence provided it is peaceful and reciprocal towards the views of other religions or people without religious inclination. The mistrust stems from long before the events of 9/11 but that act of cowardice certainly did not help their cause. Watching Muslim countries in the middle east on CNN as they celebrated the fall of the towers did not create warm, fuzzy feelings here.

I would invite folks to review the history of India and Pakistan just to point out that Radical and even some Moderate Muslims do not vent their hatred only toward Christian nations. This is an ever shrinking world and we all need to learn to live in harmony.

I offer my points in the spirit of healthy discussion and in no way intend to appear negative or disrespectful.