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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further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unfunded 95% repealed.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 ad 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.