The
Letter...
By: Janet Contreras
(Reprint Permission Pending)
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 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want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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unfunded 95% repealed.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 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.
If you
agree with this, be sure to
sign the petition. We are sending a letter with over
100,000 signatures to Washington D.C.
