GLENN BECK: I got a letter
from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open
letter to our nation's leadership:
Please take a few
minutes to read and absorb just what this lady had to
say... "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it repealed and I want no further funding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repealed.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 balancesstopped
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
affiliatespending 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? WHY IS
IT THAT ALL OF YOU LEAVE OFFICE AS
MULTI-MILLIONAIRS? I WOULD LOVE TO SEE AN
INVESTIGATION INTO THAT! MEANWHILE, YOU
LIMIT HOW EVERYONE ELSE CAN PROSPER......AND HOW
THEY MUST PAY TAXES--GUESS SOME OF YOU FEEL YOU
DON'T HAVE TO? WHAT ROCK DID YOU CRAWL OUT FROM
UNDER?
Nine :charitable
contributions.
Al though 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 nonpoliticians 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 livi
ng 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 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 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." |
I'ts too soon for radical climate change legislation? It's hard to believe that in a country full of brilliant scientists and nobel prize winners such a huge part of the population still refuses to recognise the obvious, to admit that human-made climate change is happening and that we have to act now because it is OUR (developed countries') fault...
And sorry, but some more government control won't kill you - or do you want to continue being controlled and actually governed like big transnational corporations the way it is now?
The basic problem is that our government and BOTH parties are now totally and completely, corporate owned subsidiaries of corporate special interests.
Our energy policy is written by big oil companies.
Our health care policy is written by big pharma and big insurance.
Our economic policy is written by wall street casino players.
Our agricultural policy is written by big chemical companies like Monsanto.
Our foreign policy is written by the military industrial complex and israel.
Need proof?..... A few years ago our bankruptcy laws were reformed to be more fair, more fair to whom you may ask, well, more fair to the banks of course. So who was it that re-wrote and re-structured our bankruptcy laws? Why it was the big credit card companies, such as MBNA. No conflict there I suppose.
Our media, ALL OF IT, is controlled by 4 or 5 corporations, yep, all television, newspaper, magazine and radio is owned and controlled by just a few big mega-corporations. Sop of course it's in their best interests for us to be squabbling amongst ourselves about right versus left, and to keep us distracted by weeks of michael jackson coverage, et cetera. We are ignorant by...
The basic problem is that our government and BOTH parties are now totally and completely, corporate owned subsidiaries of corporate special interests.
Our energy policy is written by big oil companies.
Our health care policy is written by big pharma and big insurance.
Our economic policy is written by wall street casino players.
Our agricultural policy is written by big chemical companies like Monsanto.
Our foreign policy is written by the military industrial complex and israel.
Need proof?..... A few years ago our bankruptcy laws were reformed to be more fair, more fair to whom you may ask, well, more fair to the banks of course. So who was it that re-wrote and re-structured our bankruptcy laws? Why it was the big credit card companies, such as MBNA. No conflict there I suppose.
Our media, ALL OF IT, is controlled by 4 or 5 corporations, yep, all television, newspaper, magazine and radio is owned and controlled by just a few big mega-corporations. Sop of course it's in their best interests for us to be squabbling amongst ourselves about right versus left, and to keep us distracted by weeks of michael jackson coverage, et cetera. We are ignorant by design people.
Our country must fall, it must collapse and fall into a terrible, desperate situation, because that's the only way for the honest to get the chance to rebuild it, back to how it once was, long before any of our times.
America is doomed, it has to be for us to have any chance at all. Odd, I know, but it's true. A full blown, painful and frightening revolution in every State, every City, every Street. Tanks in the streets, many will suffer beyond imagination and it will be terrible for a long time.
Alas however, that is our only chance.
I want "one person, one vote" and I don't want people with money to have more power than I do, which is certainly the way it is now. I don't see this problem on her list of what's wrong with government. The rich and the corporations need to be blocked from having more power than the poorest citizen has. As far as I can see, only the "leftists" even recognize this to be a problem and a wrong. Until tea partiers and "we the people" recognize that being "we the people" means fighting the rich and the corporations to take away their unjust power, they won't interest me. Stuff like illegal immigration, being against universal healthcare, and worrying about Acorn are silly distractions from the main problem, the influence of the rich which serves their interests and not ours.
oink, oink!
This is what I have been saying!!
This is the kind of change we need, not some made-up bullshit, but REAL change!
You tell it like it REALLY is, so don't stop telling it!!