Tea Party sympathizers oppose government interference in health care and in other areas of the economy, and they fear the Democratic-led Congress is spending too much and increasing the national debt.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

And many Republicans criticize the Fed chief himself a Republican for what they see as too much spending.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Republicans said the plan contained too much wasteful spending and too few tax cuts.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

"There was too much spending on it, in my view," conservative policy analyst Ron Haskins at the Brookings Institution said.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

"I am here to protest what the government is doing to us, taking our freedoms away, spending way too much money, ramming these things down the throat of the people without their consent."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15