Posted by
nhoop on Monday, November 02, 2009 12:18:40 PM
Please take a few minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had
to say, and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire
mailing list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time
is short and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound..............
The following letter read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly circulating
around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old
woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to
forward it to all of your friends...
GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:
"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my
life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a
Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my
views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel
the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues
important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or
representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the
issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional
Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they
are supposed to represent.
There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and
tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our
Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now.
You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel
so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind
of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which
I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal
immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop
the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not
again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist.
This is not to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the STIMULUS bill.. I want it repealed and I want no further
funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway. I want
the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and
balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government
officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling
on our Constitution, and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There
are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical
legislation. Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct
quicksand.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive
decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren. Don't you
dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading
it. Slow down! Fix only what is broken -- we have the best health care
system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states
first.
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty
fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more.. More is
not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to
take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you
start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our
2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory
escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal
that closes -- how did they pull that one off? Stop the funding to
ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I
do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I
don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money. Face up to the
allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any
more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck,
hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the
people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is
mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have
because they gave me jobs -- and that is the only redistribution of
wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person! Why
do you want me to hate my employers? And what do you have against
shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor
person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local
communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent
and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim
like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off
just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful.
(Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?) We will pull together. Great
things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to
innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how
about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and
have some straight honest talk. Please stop trying to manipulate and
appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take
me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals
with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal
investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath.
Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from nonpoliticians
and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop
speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a
community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent
person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I am busy,
and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of
the business of government so that we could work, raise our families,
pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure
our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars
on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and
teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the
free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the
checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened?
You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the
hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill
that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not.
It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a
slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I
feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my
own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should
trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our
children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it
if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is needless urgency
and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also
know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel
that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want
it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being
rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have
forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you
are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with
our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot
afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington . Our president
often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no
kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost
to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop
treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job
we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants
done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long
because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented..
You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you?
We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay
taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the
grindstone... and we are now looking at you.
You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so
powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too
far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us
who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come.
Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest
assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of
office.
We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We
will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will
flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off..
We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or
you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among
us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of
our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We
don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans
are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all
that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power
and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We
entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are
dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame
to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your
constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of
your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about
your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them..
Because we will get you fired and they will not save you.
If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up.
Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak
up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be
herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole
damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for
you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we
are coming. We the people are coming."