Tea party: It's about more than just economic issues

Tea party: It's about more than just economic issues

" They have seen the America they grew up in virtually vanish.

We seem no longer able to balance our budgets, win our wars or secure our borders. Compared to what our culture was, it is a running sewer today. Working-class wages and middle-class incomes seem to have been stagnant for decades. Factories and jobs continue to hemorrhage to Asia. Company towns become ghost towns. Made in China has replaced Made in America. And as one drives through cities and suburbs, one encounters vast concentrations of people who speak some language other than our own.

The tea-party people are rising up to take their country back, and that's why they're not going away. "