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 I want it repealed and I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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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." |
