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people carried signs crafted of empty cardboard boxes and their children's crayons on their kitchen tables. Nobody provided charter buses to attend any gathering to assure there was a good turn-out. With as little as a week's notice, venues that expected 50 people got 400 or a thousand! People stood in the freezing rain in the East and falling snow in the West. As these were mostly the working middle-class, most of the attendees actually had to take the day off work to attend. Many drove over a hundred miles. The elderly and middle-aged were well-represented.

The anger these protestors feel is not particularly aimed against taxes. It is not particularly aimed at the Obama administration except that he "promised change" and gave us more of the same-on steroids! It's against thirty years of wasted money, free-wheeling and dealing with the voters' futures. It's against being forced, under penalty of unconstitutional law, to swallow insults and abuse against our way of life, and our investment in our children's futures. This seems to be what the opposition doesn't understand: these people didn't like Bush's spending any better than Obama's-and many saw through Clinton's creative borrowing against Social Security to pad his budget also. All of these leaders were guilty-and the thinking people very much object to the "I won" attitude being spoken as a decree that any one group now holds dominion over the rest of the People. They also mightily resent our illustrious President's constant arrogance and belittling of the American middle class in favor of special interests and Marxist projects. After watching our so-called leadership lose its moral compass over a period of years, the People have decided to halt the freight train of State, turn it around and redirect it back onto the right track.

For those who believe the major media's claims that these Tea Parties were sparsely attended and consisted only of fringe political thinkers, take a good look at the numbers that are coming in: One source, PJTV.com is tracking the verified numbers of about 25% of the Tea parties. Those numbers currently, after 24 hrs, stand at 400,000 people. Many cities had attendances in the range of 7000 to 10,000 people-sevral had far more. To extrapolate the statistics, this is well and away the largest demonstration by the voters in US history. Many Tea Parties will never be counted but that doesn't matter. These Tea parties were a way for a diverse group to network, exchange email addresses and get on mailing lists. This isn't the end of Tea Parties or the end of political activism by the much-maligned "silent majority". Overseas news outlets realize this and are printing it-only the US media and the administration is ignoring its significance. We the People want our country back-and we will have it!

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