WE THE PEOPLE...

[Guest mustangdave]

Didn't quite know where to post this up, it just about says all that needs to be said..MODS if there's a better place for it please move it...

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'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 llegal 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding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remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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.

[Guest mustangdave]

and Lamar and Bobby C just got this in their email IN BOX...any bets on whether I get a cool FORM letter thanking me for voicing my concerns?

[Guest kdpate]

Dave, you got toooooo much time on your hands at work..

But she does have a valid point though....

I'm gone to take a nap on a prototype bed. Back in 30.......

[Guest foister82]

i can relate to most of what she is saying there. The sad truth is that any elected official that recieves this letter is just gonna have an assistant respond with a pre written response and alot of the time it's not even on the same subject. Doesnt matter how loud Glenn Beck's mouth is, i would almost guarantee that her voice will not be heard (until election time false promises)

[Guest mustangdave]

Dave, you got toooooo much time on your hands at work..

I'm gone to take a nap on a prototype bed. Back in 30.......

...I know...but look whose talkin...I mentioned Jamison Bedding to a co-worker for ya...they're in need...

[Guest SUNTZU]

and Lamar and Bobby C just got this in their email IN BOX...any bets on whether I get a cool FORM letter thanking me for voicing my concerns?

Dear mustangdave,

Thank you for your interest in my Health Care Reform bill and for my piano playing. I will be down at Sassy Ann's in the Old City next Tuesday. Leave a dollar in the hat.

All the best,

Lamar

[Guest mustangdave]

Dear mustangdave,

Thank you for your interest in my Health Care Reform bill and for my piano playing. I will be down at Sassy Ann's in the Old City next Tuesday. Leave a dollar in the hat.

All the best,

Lamar

And we have a WINNER....

[Sidewinder]

Kudos to Mustang dave for posting the letter from the Arizona woman, read on the Glenn Beck Show. This is the attitude of most of the people in this country, that has any common sense. Regardless of whether the politicians listen or not, it's immaterial. We the people have the vote to "remove" them from office, or keep them in office, and when only about 35% of the elgible voters care enough to take the time to go to the polls and do theit "civic duty", we're going to continue to have rif raf like this leading our Nation. Granted, there are some so stupid I hope they don't vote. But, we have to study these scumbags from their real roots and beliefs, from their past and present actions, and not from what they say, but what they have done, then compare them to our own beliefs, about how we think they will uphold out Constitution, then go vote and get others to vote as well. Our complacency (laziness) has just about cost us our Republic. Please register, study all the candidates, and not just from their slick ads on TV and radio, but from their records, decide on the one that you think will best uphold our constitution, and our rights, especially our second Amendment rights, and then do all you possibly can to help that person get elected. yes, it'll cost each of us some time, worry, and money, but it'll be worth it, many times over. We owe it to our children and grandchildren...and on and on. We can not afford to give up the good fight. Remember Sheriff Pusser from "Walking Tall"? We need to Walk Tall.

Why is common sense so uncommon these days? Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson

[Guest kdpate]

...I know...but look whose talkin...I mentioned Jamison Bedding to a co-worker for ya...they're in need...

Thanks for the plug man:up: