In recent letters to the Acorn regarding the TEA party events, Mr. Browne from Thousand Oaks asked if people didn't realize that our new president is actually cutting their taxes.

Mrs. Jensen from Thousand Oaks asked why they were referring to tea parties.

Mr. Browne, the Americans who qualify for the "cuts" will need those extra $13 a week to offset the increase in their state sales tax and vehicle registration fees that were just implemented.

Browne also said he's concerned about the doubling of the deficit under President Bush.

I, too, was concerned about the spending by Bush and the Republicans. It's the reason the Republicans lost Congress and should continue their hiatus until they adhere to truly conservative principles.

At least that spending gave us seven years without another 2,973 innocent Americans killed on our own soil.

Maybe Mr. Browne can explain to his children how President Obama's tripling of the deficit is going to improve our situation. Hopefully they start saving now for the $175,000 federal tax burden that each one of them has just been saddled with.

Mrs. Jensen, the events were called "tea parties" as in the "Boston Tea Party" of 1773. I'm sure even our government indoctrination centers- - you probably refer to them as public schools- - still teach about that in their version of American history.

It was MSNBC that decided to use the term "tea bagging."

Apparently Chris Matthews thought of the phrase while he felt another thrill going up his leg thinking about President Obama.

Mrs. Jensen also expressed her concern about the environmental damage that the tea parties may bring about. Had people like Mrs. Jensen been around in 1773, we probably never would have had the Boston Tea Party in the first place.

King George III surely never would have approved the environmental impact report. Had the Boston Tea Party never occurred, we could still be living under a tyrannical government today. On second thought, I believe we may be doing so as we live and breathe.

At least living and breathing haven't been taxed. Yet. Michael Foxen Newbury Park