If you spend time on your computer like I do you probably get a lot of forwarded e-mails. Most of them I delete before reading. I rarely forward e-mails on to friends but sometimes I will selectively forward one to someone I know who might get a bit of enlightenment or a laugh.
A few days
ago I was sent an e-mail that I almost deleted. It was long and the
name Glen Beck was mentioned.
I watch Fox News but don’t spend
much time with Mr. Beck. He is a bit too strident for me.
Reportabably, he received a letter from
a lady in
So I pass her letter on to you. You may not read it all or agree with what she has to say but I think it represents the feelings of many Americans just now.
GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in
"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
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 I want it repealed and I want no further funding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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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
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 non-politicians
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
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
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."
Al & Jo