Posted by
Brian Peters on Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:32:38 PM
Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, this letter strikes a deep chord from the 'Heart of Americans'. Read it, and heed it well!! B.E.V. can not verify the authorship of this letter, Glenn Beck says he has, but the content is what is most important.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26742/
June 17, 2009 - 10:36 ET
GLENN: 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding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remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 hewill 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.