Protesters Rally Against Big Business Bailouts

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The message was clear, displayed in many creative ways, these americans are tired of working hard only for the government to freely hand out their tax dollars.

"I just see the country fast becoming socialist, with all the ways of the government and the drastic spending, I'm ready for a stop in the spending or at least have a vote on it, " says protestor, Cooper Phelan.

Protestors say all the bailouts and stimulus dollars aren't doing any good for the nation's economy.

"I don't think the money is going to the right places we're just spending too much you know, and I think without our voice in this I don't think its right, " says Atoka protestor, Mike Boswell.

Young kids to war veterans stood side by side along the road for hours, holding signs and expressing their concerns on the trillions of government dollars being spent.

"Because of that like my sign says, I'm going to have to pay that off and be in debt and so will my kids and maybe their kids ," says 12-year old protester, Bridger Smith.

Speakers pumped up the crowd waving american flags. While others waited in line to sign a petition which will be sent to state reprentatives and President Obama.

"It's about the wreckless spending of our government from every end of it, its insane and it has to stop, it absolutley has to stop ," says Memphian Daphny Wolfe.

And protestors say this tax day tea party isn't about which political party someone belongs to, but about how the children and grandchildren will be affected in the future.

"We're not opposed to democrats we're not opposed to republicans we're opposed to the out of control spending that's going on in Washington DC," says Randy Mynatt.