A Letter Every American Should Read!

This is a letter Glenn Beck received 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 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.

Scott and I feel similarly to this Lady's sentiments. We feel like orphans, with our views and ideas not being represented by EITHER political party. We need a political party that supports the Constitution. We support LIMITED government, we support the CONSTITUTION. The insane spending in Washington will destroy our country!

Since I can't travel to Washington and protest in person, the best I can do is raise my children to know, understand, and love the freedoms that the Constitution preserves. Our unalienable rights are in jeapardy. Our country no longer reflects the goals of the founding fathers. We have fallen into all the traps that they warned and worried about during the founding days. I hope and pray that my children will choose to be leaders in their communities so that they can help "fight" and educate others in order to win our freedoms back.

The Boston Tea-Party Revisited

I never thought I would live to see the day where our Country has traveled so far from the Constitution it was founded on. I never thought I would ever participate in a political "protest". I never thought I'd live to see an Economic Depression. But we just have to do the best we can in whatever time we're given....

My kids made their own signs...You can tell!

With all the turmoil in our Nation, in light of the crazy irresponsible over-spending, the out-of-control deficit, the printing of money that doesn't exist, the impending crises, and the 60,000 page Bail-out bills, naturally my kids have overheard quite a bit and have asked lots of questions. It's been good to talk to them about Current Events, and our opinions on them.



When I found out about the Tea Parties being held all over our Country, I knew that I wanted to go to one and bring my kids. I felt very strongly about the importance of letting our leaders in our government know that WE THE PEOPLE think they are making the WRONG RESPONSES to the economic crises. You can't Spend your way out of DEBT!
The people who attended this rally love their country and are saddened by the leader's lack of vision in searching for short-term fixes instead of long-term solutions. I liked most of the signs that were there, but there were a few depressing ones I didn't like at all. I don't like to think that America's days of world-leadership are done. I don't like to entertain the possibility that the bankrupting of Glorious America will be her downfall. (i.e. America Committed Suicide 11-08) And the idea that WE THE PEOPLE are now owned by the Chinese is quite horrifying(I hope that one never comes true!). One sign I liked, but I didn't make one because I thought it too sarcastic was "The Government Represents me? WOW! I must really be CORRUPT!..." One sign I found amusing was "OBAMA, You're Taxing My Patience! (Although overall I didn't like the Obama signs because the protest was suppose to be about protesting government spending that will result in inflation and horrible future taxes instead of President Bashing. I do hope that there are many Democrats and Liberals out there who are uncomfortable with all the rapid changes and insane spending bills being passed. It was advertised as a non-partisan rally) I did like all the anti-socialism signs. (No Socialism in America! Keep America Free!) The possibility of our country turning Socialistic (we're on the path half-way there, I know) is something that continues to give me nightmares...literally. The week before I went to the rally, I had a horrible dream where our government had turned into something out of the haunting book, 1984. That was awful.

The reason why my family made it a priority to go and participate:
I viewed it as a wonderful opportunity to show a good example to my kids the importance of standing up for what you believe in, being involved in politics, and exercising our Freedom of Speech.

It felt good to be there at our Capitol Building in Salem with thousands of others, folks of all ages and walks in life (including many families with young children!)

Before we went to the "Tea Party" we talked a lot about about the Boston Tea Party, and what it was about. We talked a lot about debt and taxes and the purpose of government. My kids also learned what inflation is, as they will live to see it boom exponentially. It was very education-inspiring month, even if the subject matter was depressing.


My kids were a little disappointed that we just stood around holding signs. They wanted to march around the capitol and shout. There was one group of people near the street that had signs that said if you were opposed to the government over-spending to honk your horn. Well, there was pretty a much a constant stream of honking! For the whole time they were there! (over an hour) We left when the speeches began, because even though they had a loudspeaker, we couldn't hear a word they were saying.There were a lot of College students there. These two were dressed very, mmm, creatively! I liked that some of the adults who came were dressed up as Indians. Made me wish I'd thought of that; I have an authentic looking Indian Costume. There were several Homeschooled families with lots of kids there, but the majority of protesters were the baby-boomer aged folks.

Christopher was crazy about trying to get on TV, He wanted to go up the tv camera and wave in front of it. We tried telling him that wasn't how it worked. I forgot to watch the news later that evening to see what they covered about the protest and what was said. Someone said they thought they saw my family on the news, but I didn't hear anything else. People have told me that these huge protests were hardly covered at all by the major media.My Sister-in-law, Janalyn, and her three boys: Steven, Jared, and Spencer came and helped us hold our signs. Our other signs said "No Taxation Without Deliberation" "Taxed Enough Already" and "No Public Money for Private Failures"
Angel colored her very own sign! She got upset When Julie tried to snatch it to chew on it.

We survived the crowds, and we were all very glad we were a part of this historic movement. We're hoping it has SOME sort of influence on those in power! With the way things are going, if something doesn't change soon there will be more protests, and maybe civil unrest. We are praying for good resolutions to be found and implemented.