Take Back Our Government

 "I am a home grown American citizen, 59, registered Democrat all my
 life. I no longer feet the Democratic
 Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. 
  Now I no longer feel the Democtic 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 I want it repealed and I want no further 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  the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 --- 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! 
 
 
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. 

  
 
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 little 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 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. 
 
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 . 
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 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.     
Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we
> are coming. We the people are coming."

 "I am a home grown American citizen, 59, registered Democrat all my
 life. I no longer feet the Democratic
 Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. 
  Now I no longer feel the Democtic 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 --- 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! 
 
 
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. 

  
 
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 little 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 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. 
 
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 . 
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 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.     
Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we
> are coming. We the people are coming."