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To my state and federal representatives:
I am seeking proper representation in my government. In brief, these are my views and issues for which I seek representation.
1. 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, with no resolution. I'm not a racist and this isn't to be confused with legal immigration. My parents emigrated from Italy 130+ years ago and were proud to be American and become proficient in English. They did not even dream about reading Italian while in the United States. Deportation! Every illegal, deport them now - and really do something about closing the borders versus talking about it.
2. 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 I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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. It has been abused and the money spent wrongly and not as promised. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.
3. Czars. I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
4. Cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to study. Don't make decisions on partial information. Our international partners won't have anything to do with it. Repeal it now.
5. Universal health care. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision where Congress didn't read the Bill. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on another break. This is too big, slow down! When you do pass it, PROVE to us that you believe in it and make it YOUR personal and family plan. No more special plans for congress – outlaw it.
6. 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?
7. ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates associated with 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 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… well, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people, and investigate. The President is too close to ACORN and this reeks of another Watergate.
8. Redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. People work for their money, when they have a job. I have worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. Allow them to prosper. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? What do you have against shareholders making a profit? That’s why I started my business years ago. Its not in the Constitution - for good reason - so please delete that idea.
9. 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 the needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Stay out, we want to do it ourselves.
10. 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. Many of us have worked for company that went under. The change is 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.
11. Transparency and accountability. How about it? Let's have it as it was promised. It looks like another broken promise so far. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Stop manipulating text 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.
12. Unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath, study, think. Your income is down like many of us. No income, no spending. You don't need an economics degree to figure that out. 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. I work. 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, but YOU can. 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 knows 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. The best way to lead is to lead by example. We cut back on spending and cancel vacations. The common sense thing to do is for all of you to stop your own pay raises, even roll them back and live like most Americans. Cancel your vacations and breaks. Get back to work. Do what you were hired to do. When you need a conference, DRIVE to a local convention center.
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 it will not be for long. 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. Rest assured we will represent them honestly. 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 the grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight, but the gloves are off now. 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 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 entire congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. The people are coming.
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