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 I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to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repealed.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 non-politicians 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 s 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.