I will just post it here.  I have nothing to add.  My circumstances (age, citizenship path, etc.) may vary.  My views do not. Thanks, Kevin.


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bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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95% repealed.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 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[s and the latest] 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.

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