Report on July 4 Tea Party in Birmingham

Musings from Maytown editor John Killian had the privilege of speaking to 3,000 at the Verizon Wireless Center at Oak Mountain for the July 4 Tea Party. The Birmingham Rally was emceed by radio talk show hosts Matt Murphy and Lee Davis. While named after the Boston Tea Party in 1773, where American patriots protested an unjust tea tax, the 2009 Tea Party movement uses TEA for the acronym Taxed Enough Already.
Millions gathered in Tea Party rallies across these United States on Tax Day April 15. This writer had the grand opportunity to speak to the April 15 rally in Montgomery to a grand audience of 2,500.
The Tea Party movement has given hope to this writer that the grassroots citizens are waking up and rising against the wave of socialism .
The founders of this country began with the intent of the states governing themselves on most matters. The federal government was not established with the intention of being the dominant force in our economy. Thomas Jefferson stated that a government large enough to provide what you want is also large enough to take away what you have. Working Americans are now paying an inordinate amount of paychecks to fund an oversized and out-of-control government.
Join with the Tea Party movement and demand that government cut back to the size as prescribed and limited by the US Constitution.