A Letter That Needs To Circulate Now, Not Later

This has to be the email forward of the year! Please take a few
minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say,
and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing
list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time is short
and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound..............

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...

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 I want it repealed and I want no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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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
null- 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 re-election 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 canceled vacations. We will use our last few dollars
saved. We will find the representation among us and a grass-
roots 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!

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*Contributed by an email sent to me from my amazing
aunt RiverEyes