Letter to Glenn Beck

[Zoom-boing]

GLENN: 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

There's more, filled with common sense statements. When will the government wise-up and listen to we, the people? (I'm beginning to think never).

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Glenn Beck: The Letter

 

[jillian]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

 

[Dr Grump]

There's more, filled with common sense statements. When will the government wise-up and listen to we, the people? (I'm beginning to think never).[/url]

Where was this letter writer between 2001-Jan 2009?

 

[Vel]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

Really Jillian? Can you honestly say that THIS is what you asked for?

 

[Dr Grump]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

Really Jillian? Can you honestly say that THIS is what you asked for?

Nobody gets everything they want from their party. There are shades of grey. However, the guy sitting in the big chair is a massive improvement on the fool that was there..

 

[jillian]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

Really Jillian? Can you honestly say that THIS is what you asked for?

Nobody gets everything they want from their party. There are shades of grey. However, the guy sitting in the big chair is a massive improvement on the fool that was there..

exactly. doesn't mean i agree with everything...but all this we the people stuff when if anything he's not going far enough is kind of funny.

 

[Vel]

Really Jillian? Can you honestly say that THIS is what you asked for?

Nobody gets everything they want from their party. There are shades of grey. However, the guy sitting in the big chair is a massive improvement on the fool that was there..

exactly. doesn't mean i agree with everything...but all this we the people stuff when if anything he's not going far enough is kind of funny.

Tell me.. what other industries would you like to see the federal government control?

 

[Zoom-boing]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

No, we aren't. The government is spending sums of money that are down right mind boggling, with no end in sight. The government is growing at an astronomical pace, with no end in sight. This is not the 'change' that people expected from Obama. But it's the 'change' he had in mind all along.

The article is basically saying 'slow down, stop the rush, stop and think, use some common sense'. Congress and the Obama administration aren't listening, they are pursuing their agenda (under the guise of helping) . . . and the people be damned.

 

[Agnapostate]

I of course oppose government intervention in economic structure (and government existence, for that matter) more than any rightist here, but it's merely a necessary agent in the capitalist economy. For example, have a look at Yu's A new perspective on the role of the government in economic development: Coordination under uncertainty.

[The government] possesses some unique features that distinguish it from the firm. Such features allows the government to regulate competition, reduce uncertainty and provide a relatively stable exchange environment. Specifically, in the area of industrial policy, the government can help private enterprises tackle uncertainty in the following ways: first, locating the focal point by initiating projects; providing assurance and guarantees to the large investment project; and facilitating the exchange of information; second, reducing excessive competition by granting exclusive rights; and third, facilitating learning and diffusion of technologies, and assisting infant industry firms to build up competence. The history of developmental success indicates that the market and the state are not opposed forms of social organisation, but interactively linked (Rodrik, 1997, p. 437). In the prospering and dynamic nations, public-private coordination tends to prevail. Dynamic private enterprises assisted by government coordination explain the successful economic performances in the post-war Japan and the Asian newly industrialising economies. It is their governments' consistent and coordinated attentiveness to the economic problems that differentiates the entrepreneurial states (Yu, 1997) from the predatory states (Boaz and Polak, 1997).

However, inflaming crude fears about the illegals, the murderous ragheads, and the "socialist government" is a convenient way for the ruling class to keep the rabble in line, so it's not unexpected that we witness that.

 

[Lycurgus]

The letter to Beck is spot on and it is not limited to the president or any one political party.

As for you commies who want Obama to go further, don't worry, he will and the joke will be on you!

 

[neurosport]

When will the government wise-up and listen to we, the people? (I'm beginning to think never).

beginning to think ?

and the slow award goes to ...

 

[Tinktink]

Is this letter a truth or a lie? Most likely a creation of Glen Becks imagination. Kind like when he imagined Barb Walters said to him "Hey Glen, Get Over Here".

 

[sealybobo]

Bunch of Right wingers pretending not to be. Where were you all the last 8 years?

 

[JimH52]

Bunch of Right wingers pretending not to be. Where were you all the last 8 years?

Obviously, they conveniently forgot that Bush began the bailouts by throwing money at the white collars on wall street. Obama inherited a country on the brink. What was he supposed to do? Stand back and watch the US sink to 3 world status. Give it time. We will be back on top and the majority of the bailout money will be paid back.

But the pain will continue for some time, during which the party of "NO!" will continually spell doom and gloom.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

ROFL... "We WON THE ELECTION... " So what? No one that I know contests that...

What you idiots want to believe is that your winning the election somehow means you're entitled to 'remake the nation'...

The simple fact is that it doesn't...

This isn't France and we don't 're-make the Republic' just because some new gaggle of idiots managed to get themselves elected.

But you'll figure this out when in 2013, the Americans who are elected to firm up the 2010 Majority we gain in the legislature and the 2012 American President/Legislation rolls back the Socialist nonsense we're presently witnessing.

 

[Agnapostate]

But you'll figure this out when in 2013, the Americans who are elected to firm up the 2010 Majority we gain in the legislature and the 2012 American President/Legislation rolls back the Socialist nonsense we're presently witnessing.

"Socialist nonsense"? What collective ownership of the means of production can be referred to?

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

there was an election... "we the people" ARE being listened to.

Really Jillian? Can you honestly say that THIS is what you asked for?

Nobody gets everything they want from their party. There are shades of grey. However, the guy sitting in the big chair is a massive improvement on the fool that was there..

"Shades of grey...' ROFLMNAO... Oh GOD! That's precious... by "Grey" read: Subjective specious nonsense.

 

[PubliusInfinitum]

But you'll figure this out when in 2013, the Americans who are elected to firm up the 2010 Majority we gain in the legislature and the 2012 American President/Legislation rolls back the Socialist nonsense we're presently witnessing.

"Socialist nonsense"? What collective ownership of the means of production can be referred to?

Well let's see... ya have the Collective ownership of GM, Chysler and the pending legislation which would do the same for the US Financial industry...

In the case of GM and Chrysler, the Collective ownership of both, resulted in the absurd rejection of contract law... forcing TENS OF THOUSANDS of CONTRACT HOLDERS to forfeit their perfectly legal contracts, 'for the good of the PEOPLE...'

Dumbass.

 

[ba1614]

Bunch of Right wingers pretending not to be. Where were you all the last 8 years?

Obviously, they conveniently forgot that Bush began the bailouts by throwing money at the white collars on wall street. Obama inherited a country on the brink. What was he supposed to do? Stand back and watch the US sink to 3 world status. Give it time. We will be back on top and the majority of the bailout money will be paid back.

But the pain will continue for some time, during which the party of "NO!" will continually spell doom and gloom.

Well, I guess you could also ask, where was the left wing congress when the bailouts were going through the house? But that question usually results in a personal attack rather than a reasonable answer.

I think you'll find that most Busch supporters didn't like his bailout plan very much, and I've read many here admit it.

 

[Agnapostate]

Well let's see... ya have the Collective ownership of GM, Chysler and the pending legislation which would do the same for the US Financial industry...

In the case of GM and Chrysler, the Collective ownership of both, resulted in the absurd rejection of contract law... forcing TENS OF THOUSANDS of CONTRACT HOLDERS to forfeit their perfectly legal contracts, 'for the good of the PEOPLE...'

Dumbass.

As with so many of your other similarly moronic posts, you again make an inaccurate statement. Nationalization itself is not a sufficient condition for socialism, and neither would the collective ownership of the entire auto industry. Nationalization is not sufficient if collective ownership and management is not implemented (which necessitates democratic control of the economy), and the collective ownership of one industry does not amount the collective ownership of the means of production.

Dumbass.