Read the Letter, Sign the Petition, Pass the Word!
Sarah Houston
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Glenn Beck: The Letter
June 17, 2009 - 10:36 ET
Sign the petition: An open letter to our nation's leadership
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GLENN: 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.
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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding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remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 hewill 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.