(DailyMail) – Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
People were chanting “enough, enough” and “We the People.” Others yelled “You lie, you lie!” and “Pelosi has to go,” referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
Tens of thousands of people converged on Capitol Hill on Saturday to protest against government spending
Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading “Go Green Recycle Congress” and “I’m Not Your ATM.” Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of “judgment day” – Election Day 2010.
Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam War veteran and former Teamster, came from Michigan. He said health care needs to be reformed – but not according to President Barack 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, bracing himself with a wooden cane as he walked.
FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative organization led by former House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, organized several groups from across the country for what they billed as a “March on Washington.”
Organizers say they built on momentum from the April “tea party” demonstrations held nationwide to protest tax policies, along with growing resentment over the economic stimulus packages and bank bailouts.
US President Barack Obama sports a mustache famously worn by German dictator Adolf Hitler
Demonstrators hold up banners on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday
Many protesters said they paid their own way to the event – an ethic they believe should be applied to the government.
They say unchecked spending on things like a government-run health insurance option could increase inflation and lead to economic ruin.
Terri Hall, 45, of Florida, said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending.
“Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,” she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was putting the country at risk.
Anna Hayes, 58, a nurse from Fairfax County, stood on the Mall in 1981 for Reagan’s inauguration. “The same people were celebrating freedom,” she said. “The president was fighting for the people then. I remember those years very well and fondly.”
Saying she was worried about “Obamacare,” Hayes explained: “This is the first rally I’ve been to that demonstrates against something, the first in my life. I just couldn’t stay home anymore.”
The heated demonstrations were organized by a Conservative group called the Tea Party Patriots
Like countless others at the rally, Joan Wright, 78, of Ocean Pines, Md., sounded angry. “I’m not taking this crap anymore,” said Wright, who came by bus to Washington with 150 like-minded residents of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “I don’t like the health-care [plan]. I don’t like the czars. And I don’t like the elitists telling us what we should do or eat.”
Republican lawmakers also supported the rally.
“Republicans, Democrats and independents are stepping up and demanding we put our fiscal house in order,” Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, said.
“I think the overriding message after years of borrowing, spending and bailouts is enough is enough.”
Other sponsors of the rally include the Heartland Institute, Americans for Tax Reform and the Ayn Rand Center for Individuals Rights.
Recent polls illustrate how difficult recent weeks have been for a president who, besides tackling health care, has been battling to end a devastatingly deep recession.
Fifty percent approve and 49 percent disapprove of the overall job he is doing as president, compared to July, when those approving his performance clearly outnumbered those who were unhappy with it, 55 percent to 42 percent.
Just 42 percent approve of the president’s work on the high-profile health issue.
The poll was taken over five days just before Obama’s speech to Congress. That speech reflected Obama’s determination to push ahead despite growing obstacles.
“I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than to improve it,” Obama said on Wednesday night. “I won’t stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are.
“If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we’ll call you out. And I will not accept the status quo as a solution.”
Prior to Obama’s speech before Congress U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man they say tried to get into a secure area near the Capitol with a gun in his car as President Barack Obama was speaking.
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Thursday that 28-year-old Joshua Bowman of suburban Falls Church, Virginia, was arrested around 8 p.m. Wednesday when Obama was due to speak.
‘Parasite-in-chief’: The title given to the American President during the demonstrations on Saturday
Bowman’s intentions were unclear, police said.
Today’s protests imitated the original Boston Tea Party of 1773, when colonists threw three shiploads of taxed tea into Boston Harbour in protest against the British government under the slogan ‘No taxation without representation’.
The group first began rising to prominence in April, when the governor of Texas threatened to secede from the union in protest against government spending. Waves of tea party protests have crossed America since.
Today’s rally, the largest grouping of fiscal conservatives to march on Washington, comes on the heels of heated town halls held during the congressional August recess when some Democratic lawmakers were confronted, disrupted and shouted down by angry protestors who oppose President Obama’s plan to overhaul the health care system.
Source: Daily Mail Co UK
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While the federal deficit is indeed explosive, the reasons for it are about far more than public healthcare and welfare. Money wasted on the senseless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the failed “War on Drugs” and the Federal Reserve system and low taxes on the rich and offshore tax havens are wasting a whole lot more. Where were these fools when Reagan and the Bushes were looting the Treasury?
they meant ‘Spirochete In Cheeze’, I think, referring to the marionette boy with the purple lips and the pointy FAS ears like his predecessor had. Hmmmm?? wonder why they always pick fetal alcoholic syndrome babies for the MARIONETTE role as of late???
poor guy who has a glenn beck for president sign… hopefully thats a joke.
People get the government they deserve. Where is the outrage over a million dead Iraqi civilians, falsified intelligence, radioactive weapons, rigged elections, private armies, secret prisons, torture, wiretapping, looted Treasury, loss of jobs and manufacturing, Habeas Corpus, World Trade Center implosion, and on and on and on? Finally someone yells “You lie!”
Paline did not know that the Afrika isn`t a country, she is undergradueted jurnalist (Obama- master, and doctor,Painen- six universities and finally bachelor , who even doesn`t know what NAFTA means.
“People get the government they deserve. Where is the outrage over a million dead Iraqi civilians, falsified intelligence, radioactive weapons, rigged elections, private armies, secret prisons, torture, wiretapping, looted Treasury, loss of jobs and manufacturing, Habeas Corpus, World Trade Center implosion, and on and on and on? Finally someone yells “You lie!”…rather ‘anticlimactic’ after the 46 years of bullshit some of us have lived thru, shaking our heads, telling others this day would come, and having them ‘laugh’ at us. Well, the day did come. and unfortunately, the words in quotation marks above are far better than what I could say. To my fellow American’s, I ask this; “where the fuck were your heads when some of us were doing everything in our power, short of body blocking you…to get you to wake the fuck up????” “where were your heads???”
Very promising to see US people to finaly show their anger…and I keep my fingers crossed … yet, all these marches do not still point to the real hidden danger. People have to first liberate “White House” from foreing occupayrs. Every scholar and person using STILL!!!! free information, knows Israel lobby groups dictate US home and foreing policy so US fights the wars and spreads terror for Israel.
I wonder when people will found courrige like many othes / usually constantly demonised/ to protest against constant US support for Israel whatewer crime and aggression these Fanatics comits and plan to orchastrate.
If people in US want to be free and respected, they have to free themself from these dual citizens in all most importent positions of US gowernment. If they clean America from these “parasites”, then they will also free other parts of the World and will be again respected. Obama is just puppet /Ron Paul was the man for US/, speaker, people / resp. most wanted criminals in this world with their Zionist Banksters always supporting unrest and wars for their greed …/ behind him are to be blamed for problems on this planet.
Truth history of US newer seen ofcouse on State / Zonist owed/ media.Comment from Czech Republic