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The woman who sent the long email letter below to Glenn B___ made her name known
to him in a telephone interview the next night. She is Janet Contreras, a 53
year old woman in Arizona , a citizen fed up with the House, Senate,
Administration, Democrats, Republicans.

During the interview she said "I don't want this. I don't want this fight,
Glenn. I don't have the time, energy or financial resources for it but that no
longer matters. It no longer matters if I'm able or if I want this fight. I have
to take it on. It's not a matter of choice anymore, which is why I wrote the
letter."

"The other part of this is that the invisible people who can and do represent my
views need to come out of the shadows. I don't know who they are. They're going
to get washed away with the rest of them if they don't have the courage to stand
up against the Administration and those members of the House and Senate who are
destroying our country and our values."
Janet Contreras
Phoenix, Arizona

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 solve issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any
political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to
solve the issues important to me.

There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me
you are there and you are willing to fight for our Constitution as it was
written. Please stand up now. You might ask what are my views and issues that I
feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. Well, these
briefly are my views and the 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. Never again. Been there, done that,
no resolution. PS, I am 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 I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied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repealed.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. TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). The Wall Street
handout bill, under President Bush, to address the subprime mortgage crisis, to
purchase or insure up to $700 billion of "troubled" assets.

Three - Czars. I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped
immediately. Fire the 37 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 Health Care. I will not be rushed into another expensive
decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and 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. Start
there.

Seven - ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010
census. I also want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees
contributed to them 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 taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I want all our money
to them stopped. Face up to the allegations against them and get them resolved
before getting 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 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 BandAid? 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 take me for. Stop sneaking around and
meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude
to criminal investigation of you. 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,
militant or violent person. I am a parent and grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm
busy and I'm tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the
business of government so we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have
recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our goals, cut
our lawn, wash our cars on weekends, 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 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 at your arrogance.

Why is it that I feel you would not trust me to make a single decision about my
own life and how I would live it, but you expect I should trust you with the
debt you have, without caring or conscience, 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 we still can. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of your recent
spending.

From my perspective, it seems all of you have gone insane. I also know I am far
from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel 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 passed 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, 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 knows all the buzzwords are
unsustainable. No kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus
group cost to come up with those buzzwords? We don't want your overpriced words.
Stop treating us like 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 we will never come for you? We are the
former silent majority, all who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote,
save money, keep our noses to the grindstone - and we are now closely looking at
you and the huge mess you created for all of us. You have awakened in us the
patriotic spirit, so strong and so powerful that had been sleeping too long. You
have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great They will surprise you. For every
one of us who come after you there will be hundreds more who 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 off. We are very 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 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 in front of the whole world. If you are not
representing the needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of
the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear that? We no longer
care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them.
Because we will fire you and they cannot 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!

[reconeil]

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Neil

[MORTARDUDE]

Good points all. Let's see if the 50% of adults too lazy to register to vote get fired up for the election in November 2010 and participate, or the 50% that do vote will kick out the incumbent-career-politician-criminals that they have voted for over and over again.

Larry

[82Rigger]

I agree with Ms. Contreras.

Get rid of the Commies and keep the Nazis out.