WASHINGTON (CNN) – Instead of celebrating the Fourth of July holiday with barbecues and sparklers, about 2,000 small-government advocates, toting signs and chanting slogans, rallied outside the U.S. Capitol Saturday.

Activists said the TEA Party Day — an acronym for “Taxed Enough Already” — was in response to what they called runaway government spending.

They are taking to task the Obama administration’s stimulus program and health care initiative, and say Congress is not giving constituents enough information about where their tax money is spent.

People at the rally expressed outrage at the $787 billion economic stimulus plan passed earlier this year, saying the bill racked up a huge national debt that will be passed onto their grandchildren. They said President Obama’s push for health-care overhaul is “socialism,” and believe it would negatively affect the quality of care.

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