AZ taxpayer letter

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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding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remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 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 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 is20ours 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.