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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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.
