Tax Day Tea Party: Take Our Country Back

It’s still a couple of weeks away, but there’s a storm brewing — and for once, it’s not the weather. All across the country, folks are getting ready for the Tax Day Tea Party on April 15th. I haven’t seen this kind of buzz in years. People who’ve never held a sign in their life are printing flyers, calling friends, and planning to show up wherever there’s a courthouse lawn or a public square big enough to hold them.

The message is simple: enough is enough. The government’s spending like a teenager with a new credit card, and the people footing the bill are finally saying “no more.” We’re tired of being told to tighten our belts while Washington keeps adding new notches to theirs.

This isn’t about being Republican, Democrat, or anything in between. It’s about responsibility — something our leaders seem to have misplaced somewhere between the bailouts, bonuses, and budget bills. People are realizing that if we don’t speak up now, we’ll be paying for this mess for generations to come.

The Tax Day Tea Party isn’t about anger; it’s about accountability. It’s a way for everyday Americans — the ones who work hard, pay their taxes, and ask for little more than honesty from their government — to say, “We’re awake now, and we’re paying attention.”

I don’t know how big these gatherings will be, but I have a feeling they’ll be heard loud and clear. Sometimes it takes ordinary people doing something extraordinary to remind the powerful who they work for. And come April 15th, it sounds like that reminder’s on the schedule.

You also may have heard about the plan to mail tea bags to your senators, representatives, the president himself. I understand that an actual tea bag won't be delivered because of security precautions. But you can send, via snail mail, e-mail or fax, this picture of a tea bag, or even just the tag from a tea bag, along with a note of protest. The idea is to make ourselves, being the silent majority, heard loudly that we are unhappy about the current direction our country has taken. It seems that those who we elected to represent us have forgotten who they work for. Let's remind them! Here's a link so you can find out who your elected officials are and where to send it http://www.govtrack.us/

Come on America. Let's take our country back!!!!!!!

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