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Posted on 06/18/2009 6:52:22 AM PDT by Mountain Mary
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'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 are 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 nonpoliticians 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 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 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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A huge number believe just these things, yet are ignored, even attacked by the left.
Wonder if this is why my leftist friends will no longer talk politics with me. I think what they have done is really sinking in with a lot of them.
WE ARE COMING...
And she’s been a Democrat all these years because.....?
Perhaps a blue dog.
Love it, Blam.
I’m ‘mature’ enough to remember that there used to be such a thing as an honorable Democrat.
That’s good, although I’d personally prefer Molon Labe.
And Congress yawns.
They know they have a 98% chance of reelection, what do they care?
I think there was more turnover in the old USSR Supreme Soviet.
I wish to God people would stop using this, especially regarding illegal immigration. The downside is so obvious by now we shouldn't have to qualify our opposition. Besides, it gives the La Raza types the idea that that old slur is still a useful tool.
I have been calling them for years saying exactly the same things.
EVERY freeper should send this to their Reps & Senators from federal down to the city officials. Can you imagine if they would receive thousands of copies of this letter by email & fax?
This insanity MUST STOP.
I would like drug testing of Congress, there is something going on there.
To find your Representative: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
To find your Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
in TEXAS Lloyd Doggett - lloyd.doggett@mail.house.gov
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison - senator@hutchison.senate.gov
Senator Cornyn - SenateWebmail@cornyn.senate.gov
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There is NOT such thing!
It is called ILLEGAL ALIEN!!
I am a legal immigrant (now a U.S. citizen, but NOT eligible to be President) where it took 3-1/2 years to file paperwork and be approved entrance visa, and now we have an illegal alien and an usurper in the W.H to the tune of 52% of the American people!!!
Does the uprising in Iran ring a bell here, or does our Constitution means nothing to us huh???
Haven’t read it yet....saving for later but I thought Beck said that this was a 3 page letter and that it was going to take him 10 minutes to read it on TV last night. Is this the full letter?
I’m afraid they don’t talk to you because they cannot engage in ideas. Their ideas are insane and they cannot defend them. All they do is attack and hopefully some are tiring of it.
As far as I know, this is the full letter. It was three handwritten pages.
I believe it is the full letter. I listened to Glenn read it yesterday.
WE ARE COMING!
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Further, leftwing doctrine is much safer when it stays in the world of theory and academia than when it is put to use in the real world.
A couple of them have at least told me privately that they agree.
Here’s my comment.
I second everything in this letter.
For the first time in my adult life, I no longer consider myself a Republican. I’m sick and tired of reps who say what I want to hear, then show that they lack the spine to follow through. I’m sick of the Republican leadership ignoring our pleas for a smaller government, border security and State’s Rights. I’m sick that it was under Republican leadership that the first TARP bill was passed. What the heck are you *thinking*?? Where is your COURAGE?? What does it take to say, “NO!” to special interest groups??
I want Constitutional/fiscal responsibility, state’s rights, individual liberty and that is ALL. I want the government to stop trying to solve all of our problems and GET OUT OF THE WAY of true progress and innovation. Let US do it. Have faith in your fellow citizens.
To the current leadership in Washington: Have faith in us. Trust that we know best how to run our own lives.
Stop punishing success and rewarding failure. Let those who make poor choices suffer for their choices, learn and have the privilege of experiencing failure. That’s how we learn. That’s how people become wiser, stronger and better.
Redistribution of the wealth only breeds resentment. Stop robbing us and calling it “charity”. Charity cannot be forced. Let individuals who’re moved to do so, donate what *they* feel they can afford to their worthy causes.
Stop digging us so deep into debt that we can no longer see a future for our children.
And to the Federal Court Judges: No, it is NOT your job to “interpret” the Constitution. IT IS YOUR JOB TO *ENFORCE* THE CONSTITUTION. Study the words our our Founders. You’re supposed to be intelligent people. You know darn well what they intended. Stop ignoring their wisdom and twisting their words to fit your personal agenda.
Contrary to what our government appears to think, we’re not blind or stupid. Every day, more and more Americans are waking up, wiping the sleep from their eyes and gasping in horror from what they see coming out of Washington.
More of us are paying attention and we’re getting mad. Start taking us seriously or you WILL be out.
...I’m a racist. I hate everyone that is not like me, don’t look like me, don’t think like me, don’t agree with me, end of discussion. No debate, don’t argue your POV. My mind is closed, because, I’m an individual...
...I hope yer wish comes true, that every voice is heard, the truth or the lie. I’m worse as a human for not helping or hearing other voices...
The entitlement mentality has been carefully groomed, now exploited to the 9s by none other than our very own Liberal-Socialist Party USA. Again.
Excellent “food for thought” letter!
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It’s a great rant, but short of armed revolution none of what she wants will happen.
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For 25 years I drove an hour and a half each way to work so I could retire with my lifetime benefits from the. East into the sun in the morning, west into the sun at night. Worked late, went to night school, busted my butt.
And now Obama wants to take that health care away from me? And make me wait in line for a doctor with illegal immigrants, drug addicts, loafers, etc? Screw him!
“from the.” s/b “from the corporation.”
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Twelve things an independent demands.
Whoops, and thanks Seadog Bytes.
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They give us frogs a bad name.
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Those three have unclean spirits for sure. Evil like I've never seen before, especially Obama. Good one, as usual. Thanks for the ping! :o)
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