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Tea partiers march on U.S. Capitol

Taxpayers revolt against out-of-control spending

Posted: September 12, 2009
12:11 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


Hundreds of thousands descend on Capitol

Hundreds of thousands of taxpayers are now storming Washington, D.C., and taking their fight against excessive spending, bailouts, growth of big government and soaring deficits to the front door of the U.S. Capitol.

All week citizens have been heading to the Hill by the busloads for the showdown today. The Tea Party Patriots' "Tea Party Express" national bus tour has been hosting a series of tea party rallies all across the nation. A caravan of buses, speakers and entertainers arrived in Washington, D.C., just in time for the march. The taxpayers have paid their own way to the event.

The White House said Friday it was unaware of the rally. President Obama has traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., to promote his health care plans at a rally there.

But so many taxpayers showed up on Pennsylvania Avenue that the crowd ran out of room and the march was forced to begin early. Citizens are carrying hand-made signs that read:

2010: Vote all incumbents out!

Our Constitution has termites!
We are under attack by our own government
Stop the march of socialism

You can put lipstick on communism, but it's still communism

My family, my doctor

Obamacare makes me sick
Go green: Recycle Congress
I'm not your ATM
We had a dream. We got a nightmare

Is this Russia?
You Lie!
Some people have donned colonial costumes while the crowd is sprinkled with U.S. and yellow "Don't tread on me" flags.

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Fox News reported lines of citizens completely filled Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks. Barbara Espinosa of FreedomWorks estimated at least 450,000 people have turned out for the march, according to American Thinker. But Michelle Malkin reported that police are estimating 1.2 million, while ABC News is reporting numbers as high as 2 million.

"It was wall-to-people people. I felt like I was in line for Obama health care," said participant Robert Barney of Chesapeake, Va. "It was at least four or 500,000 people."

Organizers have told the media they expect the event to be the largest group of fiscal conservatives to ever gather in Washington.

Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam War veteran and former Teamster, came from Paw Paw, Mich. He told Fox News that he believes the nation needs health-care reform – but not President Obama's plan.

"My grandkids are going to be paying for this. It's going to cost too much money that we don't have," he said while marching with a wooden cane.


Fox News live footage shows thousands at Capitol

According to the Washington Times, the "Tea Party Express" tour was the fourth most popular topic searched on Yahoo last week. Joe Wierzbicki, national coordinator of the Tea Party Express, told the Times he expected a large turnout.

"We were expecting 25,000 a few weeks ago, but now we are hoping for over 50,000," Wierzbicki said.

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Several organizations united to help organize the National Taxpayer Protest's descent on the Capitol, including: Freedom Works, Grassfire/ResistNet, Tea Party Patriots, National Taxpayers Union, Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform, Young Americans for Liberty, Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, Our Country Deserves Better, Campaign for Liberty, Leadership Institute, Free Republic, Young America's Foundation, the National Association of Rural Land Owners and Smart Girl Politics.

Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks, one of the groups that organized the event, told WND, "People want to do this. The people who have been protesting around the country want to come to Washington and do this in D.C. In a lot of ways, they are being ignored and the media is underrepresenting them and their numbers. They want to come together for one big event and send a very clear message."

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Very imperssive. Wish I could have made it there myself.......