An Open Letter to Our Nation’s Leadership
I am Janet Contreras, a concerned, home-grown American citizen. I am 53, and I have been a registered Democrat all of my adult life. Before the last Presidential election, I registered Republican because I no longer feel the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. I now 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 issues important to me.
There must be someone, please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me you are there and are willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please do it now.
You might ask yourselves 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? Will you please tell me? These are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
* Illegal Immigration—I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S. I am not a racist. This not to be confused with legal immigration.
* TARP Bill—I want it repealed and no further funding supplied to it. We told you "NO!" but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze! Repeal!
* 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 the President. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
* Cap & Trade—the debate on global warming is NOT over, there IS more to say.
* Universal Health Care—I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
* Growing Government Control—I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Please mind your own business; you have enough to do with your REAL obligations. Let's start there.
* ACORN—I do not want ACORN or its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them on every real estate deal that closes. Stop all funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audit and investigation. I do not trust them with the taking of the census or with taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before the taxpayers get any further involved with them. It walks like a duck and talks like a duck—hello… stop protecting political buddies. You work for the people. Investigate.
* Redistribution of Wealth—No. If I work for it, 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 I support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do want me to hate my employers? What do your have against shareholders making a profit?
* 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 local talent and resources. Butt out, please. We want to do this ourselves.
* Corporate Bail Outs—knock it off! Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we will be better off just getting to it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful, like ripping off a band aid. We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us a chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
* Transparency and Accountability—how about it? No really, let's have it. Let's say we give the "buzz" words a rest and have some straight, honest talk. Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with cleaver wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
* Unprecedented Quick Spending—stop it, now. Take a breath. Listen to "The People."
Let's just slow down and get some more 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 nor a violent person. I am a mother and grandmother. I am a working woman. I am busy, busy, busy and tired, tired, 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 lawns and wash our cars on weekends, and be responsible, contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same, all the while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding our Constitution and believed in the checks and balances to keep you from getting too far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think that I find humor in hiring a speed reader to unintelligibly ramble through a bill 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—the 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 expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children? We did not want that TARP bill. We said "NO!" We would repeal it if we could. I am not sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all the recent spending. From my perspective, it seems that you have all 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 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.
Tags: ACORN, bailouts, Stimulus, taxes
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Right On Janet Contreras !!! Millions of americans feel the same way. Enough is enough. Its time to clean House and start over. We wish no harm to immigrents, we wish good things for our children. Every American MUST shout out NO MORE. These Obama Zombies are only out for themselves, they have a secret agenda to benifit themselves and themselves ONLY. If your not aware of the bilderburgs and there ONE WORLD ORDER agenda, Buddy you better google them and learn. The 9/11 tragedy was brought on by our own gov to inact the Patriot Act, which took over 1/2 of our constitutional rights. They are going to disarm america and slaughter us. The whole Obama campaign is a conspiracy to brainwash us and our children. Do you know of Obama’s program that has been slipped into our school system? their brainwashing our children. I hope you had a chance to watch “Conspiracy Theory” with Jesse Ventura ? I say HAD because It was suddenely taken off the air ! Its time to start questioning athority, THINK people, LOOK N LISTEN
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OUR GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL. THEY ARE BURING US IN DEPT.HOW CAN WE STOP THEM ! DON’T TELL ME TO VOTE.WE DON’T HAVE THAT MUCH TIME. OBAMA AND HIS ELITE GANG MUST BE STOPPED ! WHAT CAN WE DO.
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You who pay taxes, save for a rainy day, support yourself and family are being had by the Government. All of it. This is just another day in Washington the President is just another fall guy and all the things he is doing is to distract you while they dig through your pockets for more money, control over your next paycheck and any future earnings you, your children and your grandchildren make. You can not do a thing about it because if Washingtom had honest people in it all these things that are unconstitutional would not happen they would be charged with treason. Let me tell you, it is not an embarrassment to hold these people accountable we kill people every day all in the name of protecting people from terror.
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Why is the Bama Health Plan so Important to him..If We hand him the Plan,how will he implement it ?.The fastest way is to assign his hand selected TSARS to run it..He can assign one to each Congressional District and two more to each state for Senators..A total of 525 .Each Tsar will assign Mini-Tsars to manage the Health of 10000 People in each District..All the Tsars will naturally be staffed with thousands of Non-Medical Workers..All Medical People will have to report to the Mini Tsar before any treatment can be taken..The minimum requirement for People to recieve any medical care is to have an ID card that contains all of his personal information.Naturally,there will be a National Data Base containing every person Lifes history.. These 300000 Tsars will eventually become commissars permeating the whole of American Society..As soon as the Congress passes Bamas’ Plan,the USA will become the USSA..Obama will become the Premier for Ever…
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Glenn you are full of B/S on Social Security. You were not living when Rosevelt put in S/S I was. First off there was no medical insurence for the working people, and your Doctor would come to your house. Most companies did not have a retirement plan, and when a person reached the age when they could not work they were sent packing. It was then the duty of the family to take care of the elderly. This was a hard ship on the family as they were making only enouf to barly stay alive. Rosevelt observied the problem and started the S/S program to help out the family and the elderly. It was a god send. It had nothing to do with the comist as you stated in your miss guided statements. To day the parents have to help the childrens family. What you need to do is go stick your head back into your bottle again then maby you could stop trying to put seniors back out into the street. You desire to know who destroyed S/S ask the Damocrats, they stole most of the S/S trust fund. then did away with the trust fund so they did not need to pay it back.
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Janet seems like a person of wisdom and integrity. Values such as hers are what will unite the people of this country and allow us to overcome the despotism of a progressive administration. We will not sit idly by any longer . The time is now for all of us to take action in whatever way we can. Alone we can do little, but together we are unstoppable. Remember what’s really important and strive to achieve greatness. Ever forward.
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Would Janet consider going on tour with Sarah Palin >?
I guarantee whomever she endorsed or simply stood next to,
would be the next President of the United States.
The populist/grass roots frustration with Obama & his social activist liberal agenda
is going to create a long overdue conservative backlash that is going to reverberate
through this country.
Obama can take his tie off or leave it on. He still remains a charlatan & a pretender to the throne.
In an era of vast amounts of Information, it begs the imagination how painfully little is known about
who this person is. The rest of his records from birth to high school, grades,immigration status is “Officially” sealed. This unprecedented and never even questioned…..Just tell us why the shroud of secrecy >?
Whats’s the point >?
It makes E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G He does suspect.
“One who has nothing to hide, Hides nothing”.
It’s so simple to refute the critics by simply revealing the records,
yet for some reason he does not.
Sorry, I refuse to choose willful ignorance and resent it when I am knowingly fed false information.
Too Old to start believing in fairy tales.
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Glenn, There is more known about Scott Brown in one week than
what is known about obama in over a year other than some very
radical people he hung out with.
Russell, Mobile, Al.
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Please tell me how we can aford to provide health care to the poor with so many illeagals.
Shouldn’t we solve that problem and economical recovery before we get any deeper into
complication? Certainly you can’t put that big of cart before such a small horse(ass) I’m
beginning to see where these mascots com into play. Cloud Farrow, Sand Rock, Alabama
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Amen!!! I agree to all entirely! We must take a stand! Can we charge the government and make them pay it back? We did say no! They work for us!
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This is well written and I agree with every word as I am in the same category as this woman in all areas of life, am just a little older, that’s all. I know many other who share this position, none of which would respond, ‘on the record’….we need more to cry out against the leaders who take away our freedom, ‘one bill and one policy decision at at time’ we are truly at risk of loosing our identy as the ‘greatest nation on earth’ paid by the blood of heros who seved to preserve our freedom and hard work of people who had true and honorable values.
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Also… serious, this moment… don’t let the EPA use natural catastrophes to sneak haitian immigants into the US (florida).
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I’ve read this letter, and I’ve heard that it is a hoax. Quite honestly I don’t care who wrote it, whether Janet is real and she wrote it, or whether one of Glenn’s staffers wrote it. It is true, and speaks very plainly about what is going wrong with our country right now. I hope that our current politicians and administration will listen to what we want. If not, I hope that good honest people will be willing to take their places come election time.
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Is the Constitution still in effect? I will not obey any law or order that is not Constitutional. To back it up, I do carry a copy of the Articles on my person at all times just like I carry a Drivers License etc. You don’t have to have a Degree in Law to read the Constitution and understand it.
Is it necessary for single American, to go to Washington, and make Citizen arrests? Since all Lawyers have there allegiance to the BAR.
Thanks and Sincerely a Patriot
Robert Mueller
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Wow, this lady should be President. We desparately need an infusion of non-politicians in Washington NOW! I would add only one thing to her excellent essay…. Our “leaders” need to stop trying to remove God & the very mention of God from the American way of life. They almost behave like an adult who has just been found out to still believe in Santa Claus. Shame on them all. There will be an accounting; & it won’t be pretty!
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Dear Mr. Beck,
Caught your program tonight, (have been out of the country for a short spell)
returned Yesterday
YOur reverence to the Inteligencea ….
A quote from Archbishop Fulton J Sheen …. (from one of his books)
DEFINITION OF AN INTELLECTUAL
” An intelectual is one who has been educated beyond his Inteligence.”
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