Tea Party Rallies For Smaller Government In America
CHICAGO (WBBM) -- A few hundred people rallied in Daley Plaza at noon for the Tea Party - for a better America, they say, and a smaller American government.
They started with the Pledge of Allegiance: "One nation, under God, indivisible..."
Indivisible? Perhaps. But these Tea Party supporters are ready to part ways with the current thinking in Washington, Newsradio 780's Steve Miller reports.
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Activist Jonathan Hoenig, who held a sign saying "Not My Brother's Keeper,' says he doesn't want the government to tell him what to do.
"I help a lot of people, said Hoenig, of Chicago. "I gave a guy a dollar on the way over here on LaSalle and Madison, but I do it out of my own self-interest and not because centralized planners in Washington tell me to."
U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh - a Republican from the northwest suburbs - attended the rally. He said he's refused his congressional pension and health care benefits.
