My Tea Party Experience

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, tens of thousands of Americans took to the streets of well over 200 cities and towns across the country in protest. I happened to take part in the protest in downtown Annapolis, MD at the city docks. The weather could not have been any worse; temperature in the mid-40’s with heavy rains throughout the afternoon. Even with the weather being so lousy, it is estimated that between 1,500 and 2,500 people showed up at the Annapolis Tea Party.

On December 16, 1773 in Boston, MA a group of colonist came to Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773. In doing so, they threw the entire shipload of tea into the harbor. In 2007, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul held a tea party on the anniversary of the Boston tea party as a fundraiser. That day he set a record for online campaign contributions. Recently, while on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, CNBC’s Rick Santelli gave his now famous You Tube rant promoting tea parties across the nation. Well, many heard his voice and we convened on tax day.

Although, wet and cold, many Marylanders came from all over the state to stand up for what they believe in. Some of those in attendances were parents, who don’t want to see their kids paying for the stimulus bill and bailouts that may or may not work; small business owners who can’t afford to pay their employees and are forced to cut jobs and make sacrifices themselves; young American’s who are concerned with the direction our country is heading; grandparents who have lived through the Great Depression and see much of the same things happening today; small children who understand that they will be responsible for trillions of dollars in debt.

Taxpayers are tired of the federal government’s out of control spending, which has been going on far too long. Many people are lead to believe that the tea parties were a personal attack on President Obama. The fact of the matter is, people are equally upset with the spending of former President George W. Bush. Our politicians have drifted far away from the values and principles that once made this nation great and the people realize this.

Those who did not attend the tea parties or who knew very little about the purpose of them saw this as a Republican or Conservative movement, however, there was a strong showing of people who affiliate with the Democratic Party. Americans are tired of broken promise after broken promise and just want to see our country thrive. For one day, we dropped our titles as Democrat or Republican and were just Americans.

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