Folks, we blew away the liberals with our tea party tax protest events across the country.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I attended three parties, San Francisco, San Mateo and San Jose. What a blast!
Patriots turned out, organized by the grassroots and hosted by each one of us - that is, ordinary Americans.
I'll be posting links and stories throughout the day tomorrow.
Right now, I am worn-out.
But grateful to everyone who let the empty suit in the White House and the Cons in Congress know we are fed up with the ten trillion dollar debt plan that the Democrats have rammed down our throats.
(CBS/Declan McCullagh)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Agnes Bernstein, above, knows how well socialism works, or more precisely, doesn't work.
The eight-year resident of the San Francisco bay area grew up in Poland under socialist rule, and told a crowd of hundreds at a tax day rally here on Wednesday that she fears the United States is now heading in that direction.
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"The government is growing too big," Bernstein said in an interview with
CBS News after her speech. "And I grew up in socialism and I've seen it. And this is reminding me more and more of what Poland used to be. I was fortunate to see the transfer from socialism to a free market economy in Poland and i'm very sad to see that the opposite is happening here."
The San Francisco rally convened in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office in the federal building here, where speakers denounced Wall Street bailouts, the federal income tax, and members of Congress of both major parties they accused of being out of touch with the rest of the country.
(CBS/Declan McCullagh)
It was one of hundreds of similar "tea party" events that took place on April 15 -- tax day -- around the country. (Here's
background on the tea party protests, a
roundup from a few hours ago, and a
photo gallery.)
The San Francisco rally was non-partisan: it attracted Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, and independents, many of whom appeared to be supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul's
2008 presidential bid.
Call them members of the nascent Leave Us Alone Party, or No More Bailouts Party. The front of one protester's sign said "Voting Republican = More Taxes & Debt." The other side said the same thing about Democrats.
(CBS/Declan McCullagh)
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