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The results of the great Tax Day Tea Party are rolling in, and they could not be more clear. Hundreds of thousands of worried citizens turned out around the country to plead with Washington to not bankrupt our country. In return, the liberal elites dismissed them as ignorant rednecks.

That must have come as quite a shock to the hundreds of people at the Portland tea party that I attended. These were ordinary, working class men and women – many with their kids – who feel our country is spinning out of control. They are worried sick about the nation that their children will inherit, buried beneath an unfathomable mountain of debt.

They don’t like the budget proposed by President Obama – and now passed by the Democratic Congress – that will spend an incredible $3.6 trillion next year, while leaving a deficit of more than $1 trillion. In fact, the Obama spending blueprint will saddle the country with trillion-dollar deficits for at least the next decade. He plans to deepen our national debt by $9 trillion, more than four times the size of the deficits amassed by President Bush, himself one of the biggest spending presidents in American history. In fact, the national debt under Obama will surpass the total national debt amassed by all other U.S. presidents combined.

Today’s young people will have to deal with a $20 trillion national debt, with interest costs approaching $1 trillion a year. Much of that interest will flow to the lending countries, primarily China, which is already using our money to build a massive military machine. Their attack on a U.S. Navy ship in the South China Sea last month may be a sign of things to come. The Chinese recently unveiled their “carrier killers,” anti-ship missiles with a range of 1,200 miles and which skim over the waves at mach 5 speed.

While our parents, the Greatest Generation, gave us a country of unparalleled prosperity and a seemingly boundless future, we are leaving our descendants a horrific mess. The folks at the tea parties understand that our current economic problems were directly caused by Congress, with their insane laws that forced banks to give mortgages to people who had no job, no income and no assets. In fact, the bankers were not even allowed to ask mortgage applicants if they were in the United States legally. Millions of mortgages were awarded to illegal aliens.

The people at the tea parties also don’t like the Obama plan to legalize the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and put them on a fast track to citizenship. Once legalized, they can “sponsor in” an unlimited number of relatives. The existing average is five apiece. By some estimates, the amnesty and its aftermath will increase the population of our country by more than 100 million people, primarily from the third world. We know that one-third of today’s immigrants are on welfare, so we can project that tens of millions more would come here and immediately demand Medicaid and the myriad other welfare benefits. This would hasten our slide into economic oblivion, while making our energy, crime and infrastructure problems much more severe.

And for good measure, the tea party people are not exactly keen on the new policy of the Homeland Security Department to target as potential “right-wing terrorists” such groups as military veterans, defenders of the Bill of Rights and those who want our borders enforced. Meanwhile, the Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano, said not one word about the dozens of Islamic jihadist training camps reportedly operating right here in America. So Homeland Security under Obama intends to keep an eye on loyal, patriotic Americans who have fought for their country and believe in the Constitution while practically turning a blind eye to the very people sworn to kill us.

It’s no wonder that the people at the tea parties feel that the America they love is slipping through our fingers. They fear the liberal elites in charge plan to transform our country into something we won’t even recognize. Even those who voted for Obama for “change” didn’t bargain for a bankrupt country with Big Brother spying on veterans.

These are some of the reasons for our growing national paranoia about the future. These are the things that brought people out by the hundreds of thousands to tell Washington, “No, we will not allow you to destroy our nation.”

It’s now clear the liberal elites do not even begin to grasp the depth of our fears. Consider David Axelrod, the man who ran Barack Obama’s campaign and now serves as a senior advisor. On the CBS show “Face the Nation” a few days after the tea parties, Axelrod said the movement is an “unhealthy” reaction to tough economic times. He spoke as if the people at the tea party rallies – an organic grassroots uprising – are ignorant dolts. In his words, “I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that’s unhealthy.” In other words, “You little peasants have no right to protest the sacking of your country.”

The media elites were just as appalling. Here’s a report by an MSNBC correspondent a day after the tea parties “Let’s be honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about; they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. This is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks.”

You know the elites are nervous when they have to tell such bald-faced lies. They know the truth – this is popular revolt against a government gone mad. As more Americans learn about the ruinous policies of the Obama administration, the tea party movement will grow bigger and more powerful. The people who pay the taxes and make America work are drawing a line in the sand. We will not stand by silently while our country is wrecked, no matter who is in the White House.