There was great concern amongst the participants for how Congress is handling the current economic debacle being fomented by the Federal Reserve’s debt-based fiat money system.

“We need to stop trying to solve today’s problems on the backs of future generations,” said local activist, Jim Cyr. “This isn’t about just lowering taxes, but being fiscally responsible too.”

While the ABC nightly news spun the TEA party story as just a bunch of disgruntled Republicans who are angry their side lost the Presidential election, the reality is those of varying political ideologies have recognized a serious problem with the recent bailouts by Congress to the banking system. “This isn’t a political party issue,” said Cyr. “We’re just people fed up with all the spending and excessive taxation in order to pay for it.”

By some counts, the bailouts have reached a stratospheric $12 trillion - all which will have to be paid back by future U.S. taxpayers.

One of those future taxpayers was on hand with her mother. Four year-old Rachel Ashton was holding a sign indicating she was already in debt $184,000 due to Congress’ fiscal irresponsibility. “She did nothing to deserve this except being born,” said TEA party participant, Jack McCarthy.

Rachel’s mother, Salena Ashton was a lifelong conservative Democrat up until about 12 years ago when she turned Independent. “Recently, I was considering a move to the Constitution party because unlike the other two parties, they held the beliefs I stand for,” said Ashton. “But after the stimulus plan passed, I decided I needed to join a party that had a voice that could be heard and joined up with the local Republicans.”

Ashton points to Senators Snowe and Collins getting a little too cozy with the president on the recent stimulus bill as a cause for concern. “When one branch of government agrees a little too quickly with another branch, that worries me,” she said. “There seemed to be a mixing of two of the branches of government. I think Congress did not take long enough to make an informed decision on the stimulus plan.”

Congress behaved in a similar fashion in May and June of 1932, during the last major depression, by passing H.J.R. 192 to repudiate all government contracts payable in gold and silver coin, and instead pay them with phony debt paper. That bill was hastily entered into the House and only had four days of debate before the Congress sided with the President Roosevelt’s plan for recovery - a plan that has ultimately led to the dire economic situation Americans are suffering under today.

The recent so-called economic “stimulus” plan was opposed by nearly 95% of the American people, but Congress carried the ball for their corporate banker donors by granting them the largest free money bailout in the history of the world.

The current banking system in the U.S. emits bills of credit by fiat, calls them ‘money’ and requires them to be discharged with still more bills of credit, all under the auspices of the privately run, for profit corporation known as the Federal Reserve - which is a private company, not a branch of the Federal government and has no reserves. There has never been an amendment offered, much less passed, to the U.S. Constitution to allow for the use of the Federal Reserve’s bills of credit as a circulating currency in the U.S. It is the use of their debt paper as money that has contributed to the current economic collapse in the first place.

In addition to allowing for the use of a fraudulent paper money ponzi scheme, the U.S. Congress is continuing to allow for the enforcement of an unconstitutional, unlawful Federal Income Tax which is being unlawfully imposed within the several States, outside of the Constitutionally delineated jurisdiction of the Federal Government.

Money, and how it’s collected and spent, wasn’t the only issue on the minds of those attending the Presque Isle TEA party. One veteran there showed concern over the Department of Homeland Security’s recent report that describes those who are opposed to abortion, support state’s rights over the Federal government’s and veterans returning home from active duty as potential terrorists. “As an American veteran, I resent the implication by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano viewing veterans as potential right ring terrorists,” said one veteran there. “We fought overseas to prevent our country from turning into what some in D.C. are attempting to make it now - a Socialist police state.”

The current two-party system entrenched in D.C. has all but abandoned the founding principals in the Constitution that once made this country great. “I think Congress should pass a law reinstating the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, that way we could solve our current economic problems now and prevent them in the future,” said Jack McCarthy. “While they’re at it, I’d also like to see them ratify the Declaration of Independence as a legal document.”

Similar TEA party events were also held in Caribou, Houlton and Augusta.