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LETTER TO
WASHINGTON
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:
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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bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to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unfunded 95% repealed.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.
Is
Obama a US citizen and, therefore, eligible
to hold the office of the President? Why has he
spent nearly $900,000 in legal fees to avoid producing his birth
certificate?
Why, in 2005, was a law firm with ties
to Mr. Obama researching the question as to how to evade the
requirements of Article II of the United States Constitution,
regarding the requirements to serve as President? 2005 - Three
years before the Presidential campaign?
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BUY, READ AND SHARE THE BOOK "COMMON
SENSE" BY GLENN BECK.
Our government is racing, at breakneck speed,
to American Progressivism, which looks way to much like fascism to
me. We have to do something to stop the government from
grabbing control of our lives and destroying America as we know it!
We can begin by knocking off the political correctness. Do you
realize that, by worrying about being "fair" to one and all, we only
serve to point out people's ethnicity, color, religion, political
leaning DIFFERENCES? By forwarding "political correctness", we
perpetuate racism and distrust of others. Can't we just be people?
Not black people, White people, Mexican people, Disabled people,
Democrat, Republican, etc. Identifying people in that way only
divides us further. We are Americans.
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I urge
you to become familiar with the US Consitituion, which is currently
being violated or ignored with abandon, visit
Source:
www.archives.gov
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THE
FALL OF THE ATHENIAN REPUBLIC
At about the time our
original 13 states adopted their new
constitution
in 1787, Alexander Tytler
- a Scottish history professor at the University of
Edinborough -
had this to say about "The Fall of the Athenian Republic" some 2,000
years prior:
THE FALL OF THE
ATHENIAN REPUBLIC...
"A democracy is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of
government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time
that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always
votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the
public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a
dictatorship."
"The average age of the
world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has
been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always
progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual
faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to
liberty; From liberty to abundance, From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy, From apathy to dependence, From
dependence back into bondage."
Do you see that we are
currently moving from apathy into dependence? We can do
something about it by exercising our right to vote - at all levels
of government; by voting for less Federal government and more State
control: by voting for policies which forward individual
responsibility, rather than welfare and subsidies. AND BY SPEAKING
OUT in letters and emails and participating in email
blasts arranged by various conservative websites. Your voice
does make a difference! If you took part in a Tax Tea Party in
April, 2009, don't let it end there. There will be many more
demonstrations like those in the future. If you did not attend,
please consider doing so at the next such gathering. You can find
info and encouragement at www.glennbeck.com. See and hear
Glenn on XM Radio and on the Fox NewsNetwork.
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