The following letter (read on a recent political-commentary show) is rapidly circulating

around the country, via email. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old

woman and her open letter to our nation's leadership--those elected to *serve* us!

She has given 'us' a voice:

"I am 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.

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 I want it repealed and I want no further funding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unfunded 95% repealed.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 -- we have the best health care system in the

world -- 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! Why do you want me to hate my

employers? And 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. 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 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 am a parent and a grandparent. I work. 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. W ha t ha ppened? 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 t ha t 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.

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 bringing our concerns to

Washington . Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like

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 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 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 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 d--n 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!!!"

Seems many are getting really fed up--and many who were once well-meaning supporters of

the current adminstrative trends are feeling let down and exploited by the disingenuous leaders

of our current governmental powers, pretending they have our interests at heart! I feel, they have

their own agenda--and it would not be ours, if we really knew what they are about! I am rapidly

losing faith in our great country's ability to choose wisely! We are too easily convinced, that we can

'have it all' and that it won't cost us dearly in the end, to try and have it that way!

Who will be serving whom, when all is said and done?