Glenn Beck Clips on Principles by the
Founding Fathers
Grandmother's Letter - Part 1. The letter can be found
here. Below is the letter for your convenience.
Grandmother's Letter - Part 2
Transcript of Grandmother's letter received from email.
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? W 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want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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95% repealed.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 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 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, was h 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 canceled 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.