Protestors had more to give the federal government Wednesday than their income tax filings.Thousands gathered on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol Building to rail against President Obama’s stimulus package and his larger economic and social agenda for the future of the country.”We are protesting because this government is out of control,” said conservative political commentator Jeff Crouere during a speech to the mass of protestors.Crouere said to a flurry of boos that the path the country finds itself on is a “road to communism.”Robin Edwards, president of Baton Rouge Tea Party, LLC, said the protest began as a “grassroots” movement in response to a suggestion by CNBC anchor Rick Santelli that he was going to organize a Boston Tea Party-style protest against Obama’s Home Affordability and Stability Plan.  Since then, protests have been held in states around the country — culminating Wednesday with hundreds of separate “tea parties” around the country to speak out against various aspects of Obama’s presidency.  Baton Rouge protest organizers used a Facebook group to recruit participants — the group has 1,750 members.  At least 1,500 people attended the protest, packing shoulder-to-shoulder on the Capitol steps, and Edwards said she estimated as many as 4,000 showed up at peak times.  Hundreds of signs could be seen held up high and, at rallying moments during speeches given by Couere and Chad Rogers, founder of the Louisiana news aggregator, The Dead Pelican, protestors shook their signs, chanted and booed.”END the FED” read one sign. “Stop spending my future,” said another, held by a small child.  Edwards said despite the laundry list of programs and issues protestors were identifying, one unifying theme among the protestors was “voting out those who are in office now” who “aren’t listening to their constituents.”  “You can tell everyone’s frustrated,” Edwards said.  Kelley Dick, construction management junior, said he attended the rally because he was “worried about my future.” “I already owe more money than I’ll make in the first five years of my first job,” Dick said of the government running large deficits.  Michael Houser, a home automation specialist, stood underneath a tree next to the Capitol steps, wearing a “Tyranny Response Team” T-shirt and handed out copies of a movie titled “The Obama Deception.”  “The people are not being represented,” Houser said.  Louisiana Democratic Party spokesman Scott Jordan said he sensed there was “a little disconnect from the facts” among the protestors.”I hope they know Obama passed the largest tax cut in history,” Jordan said.  Jordan also said Obama has “pledged to cut the deficit in half” and people should not forget “how we got into the situation” — blaming former President George W. Bush for running up the “biggest deficit in history.”  Susie Labry said she took the day off from her job as an actress to attend the rally. She said the tone of the rally wasn’t an ideological or partisan one.”Everybody has a right to speak and participate,” Labry said.  —-Contact Nate Monroe at [email protected]