| Aug 6 @ 3:17 PM |
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blueyes101
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The following letter, read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of your friends...
GLENN BECK: I got a letter 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.
Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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.
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| Aug 6 @ 3:21 PM |
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blueyes101
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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 busines s 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 o ff 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 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.
This will probably be moved, but I find it more than politics or current events, besides most of you would never see it in that section.
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| Aug 6 @ 3:23 PM |
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budo13
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Not sure if this is the correct thread blue but i concur with the letter writer been making statements like these myself for years now.Government has us fighting ourselves to the point we no longer pay attention to their shenanigans.JMHO edited because orinally on the gen threads
[Edited on 8/6/2009 3:41 PM]
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| Aug 6 @ 3:41 PM |
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blueyes101
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The more I think about it, the "don't re-elect anybody " is looking better than ever....
Just as soon as they start to get comfortable, they're out !!!!!!!
The reason I put it here is because it isn't about one side pointing fingers at the other..... It's about us ( the people ) pointing at them, ( all gov't officials ), and letting them know, we are sick of their crap, and it's time for them to wake up. 
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| Aug 6 @ 3:45 PM |
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budo13
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I don't believe the finger pointing will stop Blue,nobody likes to admit that they are wrong might be an ego thing.I cannot stomach our politicos any longer.They are ALL liars and thieves and we are to blame because of our complacency's.I have mentioned in other threads we need to take a hard long look in the mirror.
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| Aug 6 @ 3:46 PM |
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DiamondRain
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We're finding out that a LOT of people can relate to that letter. Thank God there are still some actual Americans left to understand what American values are, how much this country has sacrificed over the centuries to preserve it, and the dire threat that Obama, his puppets in Congress and his leftist followers represent to those values.
I predict Obama will at some point implode, and his radical supporters will crawl back under the rock where they were hatched. It's the beginning of the end for their Socialist/Marxist crap. Their strategy is to lie about what they are selling until its too late to stop the sale because they know real Americans would run them out of town if they knew the truth. Everything is s RUSH because they know that the more people know about their true agenda the more they will reject it and resist.
Their objective is to shove it down our throats before we know what's happening.
But people are beginning to get their number. The resistance has begun.
[Edited on 8/6/2009 3:51 PM]
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| Aug 6 @ 3:51 PM |
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budo13
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DR we have abandoned our constitutional republic for the abortion that it is today and yes i have to blame both sides and we must blame ourselves for forgetting that WE the American people are the government.
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| Aug 6 @ 3:52 PM |
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DiamondRain
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It's not a Democrat/Republican issue. It's an American/UNAmerican issue.
Obamacrats aren't giving us "Change we can believe in." They are trying to change WHAT we believe in. And real Americans, of any party, won't let that happen.
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| Aug 6 @ 3:57 PM |
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Angel54214
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I remember The "Audacity of Hope" came after the "Change" motto...LOL
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| Aug 6 @ 4:04 PM |
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MotownManiax
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She's expressing an opinion of the way she wants thing done. While I agree with most, I certainly don't agree with all. There might be many Americans that agree with much less. That's democracy.
Look, we will NEVER get everything we want. Our whole political system is based on negotiation, compromise, and moderation. That's why we've never been ruled by political extremes (Communism or a Right-Wing military dictatorship). In fact, we better hope and pray demagogues or zealots from the fringes of the extreme Right or Left "never" take power, because once that happens we will wish for the present with profound nostalgia.
But what we currently have is imperfect. It's "always" been imperfect. There IS no perfect system. Our government is pushed and pulled in a hundred different directions to satisfy the needs and desires of innumerable constituencies and special interests, from the gun lobby to the AARP.
That doesn't mean we're all helpless or immobile. We have the right to vote and run for office ourselves if we don't like politics as usual. People "can" make a difference, if their heart's really into it. We see it every day. But it takes much effort and vigilance. To throw up hands and say game over is just a cop out and absolves the critic from responsibility to change things.
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| Aug 6 @ 4:15 PM |
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budo13
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How bout when citizens do try to effect change they are called an "angry mob" Puppets and so on.I go to the tea parties i am neither repub nor dem nor Ind .i see around me people of all political leanings and people of different race and religion.People with money people without an genuine out pouring of the make up of our country but yet some of our elected officals call us a Mob Repubs stooges everything they can.Do they not get the message? these folks do not get their marching orders from any party they believe in the Constitution they believe in America.
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| Aug 6 @ 4:41 PM |
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MotownManiax
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I saw a superb, thought-provoking movie growing up called Seven Days In May. It portrayed a military coup by the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding a treaty with the then Soviet Union about complete nuclear disarmament. The JCS believed the Soviets were not to be trusted and thought the president too soft on Communism.
There was one dramatic scene in particular between the president and the leader of the conspiracy that spoke to the core of what our system is about. The lesson has always stuck with me. I've been trying to find the passage verbatim but have come up empty. You'll just have to rent or see the film whenever it comes on TV. It's well worth the effort.
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| Aug 6 @ 4:49 PM |
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alivenwell351
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The more I think about it, the "don't re-elect anybody " is looking better than ever....
I've said this for years...there's a pretty simple fix to ending the parade of bought and paid for politicians from BOTH parties we are continually "electing". Not that it will ever happen, but........
For EVERY election...national, state, local...in addition to the handpicked choices from the various political parties we have to chose from, at the bottom of each office up for grabs, on each ballot, should be....None Of The Above
Whenever None Of The Above wins, we go through the whole process all over again for that particular office. The parties are free to run the same people again, or try new candidates, but as long as None Of The Above keeps winning, we do it over and over till an actual person wins......
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| Aug 6 @ 4:50 PM |
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Nightowl001
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I remember The "Audacity of Hope" came after the "Change" motto...LOL Then your memory is faulty. "The Audacity of Hope" was the title of his book,published in 2006.
This clip, Mo? Seven Days in May
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| Aug 6 @ 11:15 PM |
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MotownManiax
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 That's the scene, Owl! Thanks good buddy. I forgot somebody might have it on YouTube.  I wanted to get the complete transcript from the net. I think the video cut off the entire confrontation a bit early, but the main point was made.
One doesn't like the decisions our government makes and urges violent action to "correct" things according to one's own narrow pov? You need to see the scene above. I urge everybody to see it, and the entire movie if possible. Magnificent.
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| Aug 6 @ 11:24 PM |
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Angel54214
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The word's out that Obama will be in Mexico on Sunday in talks with their president on the war cartels. Over 800 have died in Mexico just in the month of July. Not sure what's up his sleeve, but maybe the letter writer will take an interest of what's to come of it all.
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| Aug 6 @ 11:30 PM |
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budo13
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Show me the violence Motown where is the violence at these meetings?you and i both know that if there was truly any "Violence" the media would be on it quicker buzzard on road kill.Btw an Excellent movie another one that comes to mind is "Twighlights last Gleeming" which also happens to star Burt Lancaster.
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| Aug 6 @ 11:41 PM |
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DiamondRain
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I go to the tea parties i am neither repub nor dem nor Ind .i see around me people of all political leanings and people of different race and religion.
Good for you Budo!
I haven't been able to get to a Tea Party yet, but I plan too. And I know a lot of other people that plan to also.
My stinking Senators are arrogant liberal aholes Chucky "the Schmuck" Schumer and the newest jerk to replace the last jerk (Hillary Clinton) Kirsten Gillibrand.
These arrogant bastards couldn't care less about their constituents, and don't even respond to inquiries or comments.
They wouldn't even consider having a "Town Hall Meeting" with the little people they work for, the ordinary citizens. And thy are too busy hobnobbing with the elite class Obamacrats in Washington anyway.
So I have been speaking with some friends and we are thinking about organizing our own Town Hall Meeting without them and inviting the press. Just had a great idea! We will make cardboard cutouts of these two arrogant jerks and put them up front so the cameras can see them (if there is any way we can get the state run media to cover it). We'll ask our own questions and discuss them with the real people there instead of the cardboard fake, phony frauds. Who needs those arrogant aholes anyway! What would be the point? Obamacrats answer everything with a lie, deception or diversion anyway.
LET'S SHOW THESE ARROGANT BASTARDS WHO WORKS FOR WHO!
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| Aug 6 @ 11:47 PM |
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budo13
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Dr i guess it could be worse and you could live in Mass.I look at these videos and try to study the faces of these Congress people and the arrogance they show is unbelievable.Pugdoglosi makes comments like we carry swastikas these folk are so out of touch with America would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
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| Aug 7 @ 12:10 AM |
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DiamondRain
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My good friend and former boss lives in Boston.
I worked with him for 13 years. When I met him he was a liberal automaton who not only drank the Kool-Aid, but apparently inhaled it too.
I took me about 10 years of lunchtime and office debates, but I converted him to a diehard conservative Republican (probably the only one in MA other than the great Mitt Romney).
I'm in Boston often. I'm trying to recruit him into the resistance movement, but he isn't very politically active. He's got a pretty demanding job so I can see how he may not have the time. May take me another 10 years, but I'm working on it! Someone needs to wake the people of that state up.
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