[StBernard] The letter everyone is talking about--READ THIS AND KEEP IT GOING

[Westley Annis]

The following letter was read on Glenn Beck's show and is rapidly
circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this
53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will
want to forward it to all of your friends.      

                                                                            
                                                                            
GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open
letter to our nation's leadership: 
 
"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  I want it repealed and I want no further funding  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    
 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 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         
 affiliates pending 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?                                                                    
                                                                            
 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. 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 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 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."