We the people are
coming
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center>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...
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GLENN BECK: I got a letter
from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open
letter to our nation's
leadership:
I'm 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. 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 a re that I
would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both
major political parties. What kind of nut job am
I? Will you please tell
me?
Well, these are briefly my
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 isn't to be confused with legal
immigration.
Two, the TARP
bill, I want it repealed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remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 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
is more to say.
Five, universal
healthcare. I will not be rushed
into another expensive decision. Don't you dare
try to pass this in the middle of the night and
then go on break. Slow
down!
Six, growing
government control. I
want states rights and sovereignty
fully restored. I want less government in my
life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own
business. You have enough to take care of with
your real 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. Stop the funding to
ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial
audits and investigations. I do not trust them
with taking the census over with our taxpayer
money. I don't trust them with 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. 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? Why -- 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 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 try --
please stop manipulating and trying to 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. Let's just slow down and get some input
from some non politicians 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'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 such urgency
and recklessness in all of the recent
spending.
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 you to bring our concerns to Washington . Our
president often knows all the right buzzword is
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 up at you. You
have awakened us, the patriotic 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 everyone
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
canceled 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
when he 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.
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