In God We Trust

2July2009

Reporters Grill White House Spokesman

Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News.

What!? Reporters actually claiming the White House is anything but open and transparent? Can it be? Watch this, the last part is the best.

2July2009

Arrogance

Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Constitution in Peril; Rejecting Herd Mentality.

For some time I have been bothered by the arrogance and condescension I have seen occasionally from President Obama toward those who disagree with him. He needs to be careful about his ego getting out of hand because this is the quality of a dictator, and I’m sure he does not want to be a dictator…(I hope).

BEWARE THE OBAMA ‘EVIL EYE’
Tue Jun 30 2009 07:43:56 ET

As the summer begins, White House watchers have spotted a new look by President Obama: The Evil Eye!

Staffers have joked about the menacing glance, which comes when the president meets with world leaders who are not aligned with his progressive view.

White House photographers have captured the “evil eye” in recent weeks, during sessions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Colombia’s Alvaro Uribev.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got hit with the commander’s malocchio last week in the Oval office.

And at least one White House reporter has been on the receiving end of the daggers during a press conference.

(this is from the Drudge Report on Monday, June 29, 2009)

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoe.htm

Below is a photograph from the G20 summit a couple of months ago. The assault on our freedoms that went on at the summit was disturbing and it is unpleasant to see the undignified, triumphal celebrating going on by those who are dragging the world toward global socialism.

2July2009

The American Economy

Posted by Bryon under: Constitution in Peril; World Economy.

This was also on the Voice of the soldier. Just thought I would share it with you.

Who created 50 million jobs in America? Who paid wages fo high that the poorest workman could afford luxuries even the rich in other countries never had? Who paid for the research to develop new postwar products which could be providing greater prosperity than the world ever saw?

American industry—spurred on by the chance for profit.
It has paid more taxes, provided more jobs, paid higher wages, produced more goods at lower prices, developed more national security than any other system in any other time in any other part of the world.

Now this great force which has done all this for America is being treated by elements of government and labor as though it were an enemy. Industry is told what it must pay but government wants to decide what it can keep; industry managers who supply the brains to keep all business going are cut back and back in profit an the right to manage; a thousand regulations trip, hamstring and block business progress. The wonder is that American industry and those who own and manage it bother to keep on hoping and working.

It might pay all of us who share in industry’s benefits (all 129,999,000 of us) to examine the thousand or so who are
trying to kill it. Regardless of their names, the accent is foreign.

“The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit. Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking.”
- Economist Walter F. Williams

“Government has only two ways of getting money other than raising taxes. It can go into the money market and borrow, competing with its own citizens and driving up interest rates, which it has done, or it can print money, and it’s done that. Both methods are inflationary.”
- Ronald Reagan

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

2July2009

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

Posted by Bryon under: Constitution in Peril; World Affairs.

I found this on, “The Voice Of The Soldier” news letter at www.specialforces.com. I just wanted to share with you why I love guns. They protect me so I will protect them.

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.

From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control.

From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Germany established gun control in 1938

From 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.-

China established gun control in 1935.

From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated-

Guatemala established gun control in 1964.

From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Uganda established gun control in 1970.

From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Cambodia established gun control in 1956..

From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.-

It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:

1: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent.

2: Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent..

3: Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)

In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns! While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety as decreased, after such monumental effort, and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.

You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens. Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late! The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson. With guns, we are ‘citizens’. Without them, we’re ’subjects’.

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED! If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends. The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense.

The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!

SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.

SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!! IT’S A NO BRAINER! DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAXDOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

30June2009

Another Case Against Abortion

Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Judaeo-Christian Values Under Attack.

As a mother of nine children, I have never understand how a rational human being could justify abortion, especially the diabolically horrendous partial-birth abortion. One look at the ultrasound of a seven-week old fetus with a beating heart is proof that life has already begun.

The article below from ParentDish.com talks about a baby who was born only 23 weeks in to pregnancy. What a blessing for this little girl’s parents who tried so hard to have a baby. I love the fact that this occurred while  Parliament is discussing the matter. I tell David all the time that our Father in Heaven has a sense of humor, but in this case, there is nothing funny about it. How many premature babies will it take before people admit that abortion destroys a human life?

It gets even better–one of the comments to the article is by a 26-year-old woman who was born at 24 weeks gestation.

Baby Born at 23 Weeks Doing Well Six Months Later

by Brett Singer

Jessica Hawkins was born on December 29, 2008, after only 23 weeks in the womb. She weighed 1 pound, 7 ounces. For comparison, that’s less than a Priority Mail package.

Now she is 6 months old and weighs in at 9 pounds, 11 ounces. That’s still very small for her age — some children are born at or close to that weight. But she is healthy and alive. She has passed all her vision and hearing screenings, and came home from the hospital without an oxygen tank, which is huge for very premature babies.

Her parents, Pete and Sam Hawkins, are overjoyed, of course, but their joy is even more poignant than that of most parents of preemies: Mrs. Hawkins has had five miscarriages; one occurred at 19 weeks, and one at 20 weeks, which is halfway through a typical pregnancy. She had also gone through two cycles of IVF and was told it was “very unlikely” she would have children. When baby Jessica was born at 23 weeks, doctors thought the mother had again miscarried, “but a scan showed [Jessica’s] heart was beating.”

Her parents were stunned. “We couldn’t take our eyes off her and are still in disbelief every day that she’s actually ours,” says Sam Hawkins.

While Jessica does not appear to have any long-term health issues, premature babies are at higher risk for a variety of things, including higher risk of sudden death in childhood and possible fertility issues as adults. Not so long ago, a baby born at 23 weeks would not have survived; now, neonatal intensive care units are able to stage dramatic interventions to help these tiny preemies live.

But is it for the best? Jessica’s story comes at the same time as the British Parliament reconsiders the issue of late term abortion. “Last May MPs voted against cutting the upper limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks,” says the paper. Baby Jessica was born at 23 weeks and survived, which raises questions about when a fetus becomes a baby and what rights the mother has to terminate her pregnancy.

Regardless of your beliefs about medical intervention and abortion rights, Jessica Hawkins is a miracle baby. But her story raises all sorts of issues — about choice and intervention and the proper use of medical technology. We’re just glad everything worked out well for the Hawkins family, and we wish them all the best.

Brett Singer is the editor-in-chief of DaddyTips.com. You can follow his tweets at Twitter.com/brettsinger.
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/06/29/baby-born-at-23-weeks-doing-well-six-months-later/

Read the article.

29June2009

Missing Germs

Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Emergency Preparation.

We know how reliable the media is in reporting (ha), and we can be certain that we hear all of the news that pertains to us (ha), so why be worried? Stories like this confirm why we should be concerned. This story is on the Military.com website:

Army Lab Finds 9,200 Unaccounted Vials

June 18, 2009

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - An inventory of deadly germs and toxins at an Army biodefense lab in Frederick found more than 9,200 vials of material that was unaccounted for in laboratory records, Fort Detrick officials said Wednesday.

The 13 percent overage mainly reflects stocks left behind in freezers by researchers who retired or left Fort Detrick since the biological warfare defense program was established there in 1943, said Col. Mark Kortepeter, deputy commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

He said the found material included Korean War-era serum samples from patients with Korean hemorrhagic fever, a disease still of interest to researchers pursuing a vaccine. Other vials contained viruses and microbes responsible for Ebola, plague, anthrax, botulism and host of other ailments, Kortepeter said in a teleconference with reporters.

“What happens over time, these get moved from one freezer to another, historically. Now we have much better tracking of where they are,” Kortepeter said.

About half of the found material has been destroyed, Kortepeter said. Samples deemed potentially useful were saved and entered into a laboratory database, he said.

The material was in tiny, 1mm vials that could easily be overlooked in the 25-cubic-foot freezers or even covered by clumps of minus-80-degree ice, said Sam Edwin, the institute’s inventory control officer.

Kortepeter said the inventory found nothing missing from about 70,000 items the institute began cataloging in 2005. He said Army criminal investigators have concluded that three vials of Venezuelan equine encephalitis that were discovered missing last year “were likely used up but for some reason were never recorded with the database.”

The separate search of the institute’s 335 freezers and refrigerators began Feb. 4 and ended May 27. Kortepeter said it was prompted by the discovery during a spot check in January of 20 samples of Venezuelan equine encephalitis in a box listed as containing 16.

He said the review was ordered by the institute’s commander, not by higher officials.

However, the spot check that led to the inventory was part of a tightened security program the Army implemented at all five of its biological and chemical research centers in December in response to an FBI finding that a Fort Detrick scientist was responsible for deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, said Michael Brady, special assistant to Army Secretary Pete Geren.

Brady said the other labs found no discrepancies, so they did not need inventory reviews.

The new security measures also include an annual check to ensure that all material in the database is accounted for, Brady said.

“This is not going to be a once-in-a-while thing,” he said. “This is going to be a regular, aggressive inventory accountability program to make sure we don’t have the problems we’ve seen in the past.”

After Fort Detrick anthrax researcher Bruce E. Ivins killed himself in July, the FBI announced that he alone was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people and sickened 17 others in 2001. Ivins committed suicide after learning he would be charged in the attacks. His attorney maintains he was innocent.

28June2009

Sharon’s Sunday Blog

Posted by Joy Bischoff under: General.

By Sharon Anderson

America, God Mend Thine Every Flaw

Friday, at Deseret Industries (a second hand store), I walked by a cart with books waiting to be put on the shelves and happened to notice one entitled Just and Holy Principles – Readings on America and the Constitution (1998). This like-new collection of over 25 talks, given 1839-1996, cost only a dollar, so it seemed like a gift put there just for me. It was a serendipitous discovery that helped counter the disappointment we felt that evening when we learned that the House passed the Cap and Trade bill. The book contains a timely and inspiring discourse, “America, God Mend Thine Every Flaw” by Neal A. Maxwell given 4 July 1993. Here are some excerpts:

As we sing of a “patriot dream that sees beyond the years,” it reminds us of the special perspective that patriotism possesses. True patriotism takes a long view of this nation’s needs. What does this reminding lyric tell us about our consistent and collective refusal, regardless of party, to face America’s mounting national debt and our destabilizing budget deficits.”

We cannot seem to see beyond the political moment, let alone “beyond the years.” Indeed, if certain conditions remain uncorrected in a lasting way, the “patriots’ dream” may be replaced by some nightmares!
Patriotism that sees “beyond the years” leave legacies to rising generations instead of debt. It leaves clean turf, not the debris-strewn fields of a selfish society.

“As we sing the words “confirm thy soul in self-control,” what of our society’s increasing lack of impulse control? More than we realize, our whole society really rests on the capacity of its citizens to give “obedience to the unenforceable.”

Widespread and sustained lack of self control will bring either several external controls or anarchy. The lack of self-control collectively and individually adds to our debt, to America’s devastating drug problem, and to our growing crime.

The quality of self-control is best grown in healthy family gardens. Healthy families are the first places in which we learn how to balance rights and responsibilities. ”

We rightly sing about how a “good” America should be crowned “with brotherhood.” But instead of increasing brotherhood there is increasing separatism.

We plead for God to “mend” America’s “every flaw.” But can we both acknowledge our flaws productively and believe in the Mender? God’s blessings will depend upon our behavior. We can be “free from bondage, and from captivity,” if we serve God.

God’s blessings in the future are vital not only for America but also for the world. More hinges on what happens in America than we realize. America, with all its problems, is still a beacon. This beacon needs to shine more brightly today for the sake of alll mankind in order to give “hope to all the world.”

Patriotism required that America have and maintain a spiritual core in order that our hopes are not in vain. Without this spiritual core, our liberties, our cities, our fiscal policies, and our brotherhood will finally falter and fail. Virtue must, therefore, reside in the people as well as in the leaders.

The best single way to improve the quality of life in America is to improve the quality of our own individual lives and our own neighborhoods.

Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect us from our excess of power, but it can do little to protect us from excesses of appetite or from our indifference to great principles or institutions.

Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution. The moral fabric of this society can become dangerously and relentlessly frayed as too few strands strain to hold us together. Hence shared patriotic, spiritual, and moral commitments within this nation’s border are a vital as defending those borders!

God bless America by helping us to mend our flaws!

Note: In July 1993 national the debt was increasing by an astounding one billion dollars every 24 hour— little compared to what is happening today.

26June2009

Cap and Trade…Obama Wins

Posted by Joy Bischoff under: Constitution in Peril; Environment.

Below is a poem by Sharon Anderson. She sent that along with a blog asking for our help to defeat the Cap and Trade bill in congress. I am sorry to say I was engaged in other activities the last few days and did not get to my email. I apologize to Sharon for not sharing her well done blog but I do want to but up this excellent poem that she wrote. With the passage of this bill, it was a sad day today for the American people, whether they know it or not.

Speaking of Cap and Trade

Newspeak: Renaming the Crisis

by Sharon Price Anderson

Winter brought us record lows;
global warming is resolved,
but now the planet may implode–
“climate crisis” has evolved.

Don’t bother with statistics,
tables, charts, and math,
or scientific evidence.
Don’t confuse us with the facts.

We don’t need “green jobs” anymore,
but we want to get ahead,
so stimulate the economy
with “new energy jobs” instead.

American ingenuity
is equal to this task.
Just tell us what we need to do,
so we can do it fast.

We’ll walk to work and buy less gas.
SUVs are too exotic.
Let’s be self-sufficient, prosperous,
and oh, so patriotic.

Forget the cost of heating;
Cap and trade is not a tax.
Reduce your carbon footprint.
Don’t worry, just relax.

Sacrifice your freedom
to community and collective.
Listen carefully with open minds
to Obama’s new directives.

new•speak (’nü-”spEk, ‘nyü-), noun, Usage: often capitalized. : propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Etymology: Newspeak, a language “designed to diminish the range of thought,” in the novel 1984 by George Orwell.

25June2009

Swine Flu Continues to Spread in the United States

Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Emergency Preparation.

This article was on the Yahoo website today. We need to keep an eye on the progress of this virus. We may likely still be on track for a huge outbreak in the fall if things continue to escalate the way they have been.

US Swine Flu Cases May Have Hit 1 Million

By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA – Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. The estimate voiced by a government flu scientist Thursday was no surprise to the experts who have been closely watching the virus.

“We knew diagnosed cases were just the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious diseases expert who was in Atlanta for the meeting of a vaccine advisory panel.

Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made the 1 million estimate in a presentation to the vaccine panel. The number is from mathematical modeling, based on surveys by health officials.

Regular seasonal flu sickens anywhere from 15 million to 60 million Americans each year.

The United States has roughly half the world’s swine flu cases, with nearly 28,000 reported to the CDC so far. The U.S. count includes 3,065 hospitalizations and 127 deaths.

The percentage of cases hospitalized has been growing, but that may be due to closer scrutiny of very sick patients. It takes about three days from the time symptoms appear to hospitalization, Finelli said, and the average hospital stay has been three days.

Other health problems have been a factor in most cases: About one in three of the hospitalized cases had asthma 16 percent diabetes, 12 percent have immune system problems and 11 percent chronic heart disease.

The numbers again highlight how the young seem to be particularly at risk of catching the new virus. But data also show that the flu has been more dangerous to adults who catch it.

The average age of swine flu patients is 12, the average age for hospitalized patients is 20, and for people who died, it was 37. It seems to be deadliest to people 65 and older, with deaths in more than 2 percent of elderly people infected, Finelli said.

Also at the meeting, CDC officials made projections about flu vaccines expected to be available to protect against both seasonal and swine flu this fall.

More than 25 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine should be available by early September, CDC officials and vaccine manufacturers said.

The same five manufacturers that make the seasonal vaccine are producing swine flu vaccine as well. As many as 60 million doses of vaccine to protect against the new virus could be ready by September, said Robin Robinson, an official with the federal agency that oversees vaccine manufacture and distribution. That prediction seemed a bit optimistic, others at the meeting said.

The vaccinations might be given as two shots, spaced 21 days apart. But the vaccine has to be tested before it’s made available to the public.

Read the article

25June2009

One Woman’s Letter

Posted by Terrie Soberg under: Constitution in Peril; Talk Show Observations.

I read through the transcript of part of Glenn Beck’s show yesterday. A woman from Arizona sent him a letter that she had written and he read it on-air.  This is obviously well-thought out and the points she delineates are spot on. I only hope America wakes up before it’s everlastingly too late. The damage is being done every day, much of which is behind our backs. I do not know her name, but here is her letter–the emboldening is mine:

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.

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, 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. 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 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 when hewill 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.