These are my thoughts. I am not a community organizer, a republican hack, or anyone out for my own agenda. I am not a manufactured angry person, and I do have real concerns about the future of this country and the alarming changes that are taking place. Anything else said about my motivation is a lie.

Full disclosure;I am registered as a republican. However I have voted democrat and do vote for the people that I think present the most honest values and principles. Unfortunately, it seems as though most politicians are nothing more than liers and cheats. I am shedding the republican tag though. I consider myself a common sense American.

The country is not democrat and republican only. There are a lot of different parties that are more in line with these beliefs. Our government will have you believe that they are the only options. This needs to change. If it does not, exactly what is happening now, will continue. Every time the other party gets in office, they will push through their so called agenda. I am tired of this. It does not focus on the true needs and wants of the American people. Government officials are not smarter than the American people. Government officials do work for us, no matter what they say.

Conservatives are not just Republicans. I have met Libertarians, Independents, Constitutionalists and even Democrats who are conservative. Conservative people are not the types to “take to the streets”. But we are doing it. This should make people think about why a more conservative person would take time out of their busy schedule to do something that is completely out of their norm. Personally I can tell that I have never been to a protest of any type until this year. I am standing up now because of stupid politicians in Washington and around the country who are doing nothing more than a glorified pissing contest. Their are holding their ground on their “party ideals” and that is it. The problem is that they are not paying attention to their history.

If you look at our history, government oppression is the reason this country came to be. When King George was taxing the colonials to the point of them having almost nothing to grow, invest, and save with, changes had to be made. My fear, is that the power that people get so addicted to, can infuriate people on both sides of the current arguments to push them to extremes. Frustrations commonly build up with people on the left side as well. None are immune to extremists. Just look at some of the people in our history like Mr. Ayers. Yes, there are extremists on the right also, who feel that the future of our country could come to an armed struggle. I will not say that all these people are nut jobs because they see the extreme possibilities. Which are exactly that, possibilities. Some of those people are nut jobs, but not all. Most will not admit it, but have wondered if this could actually be a real possibility. It has happened countless times, in countless countries over centuries. This is not a bad thing. To think that someone won’t do something stupid on either side of an argument is naive. However, this does  mean that the arguments made by people on the same side of an issue are all like this. There has to be a realization that people are different and have their own thoughts and there are also always going to be nut jobs that do stupid things.

People need to start looking at things from a realistic perspective and stop the “Status quo” argument. I do not want the same system that is obviously broken to stay in place. However, using health care as an example, I like mine and want to keep it. I should be able to. Fix what is broken. I do agree with Glenn Beck that Common Sense needs to return to Washington and all politicians. They need to become individuals who listen to their constituents again. I am tired of always seeing a Democrat and a Republican arguing on tv. All people need to be represented.

I am a concerned American who happens to be conservative. I am also open to debate in an appropriate manner. If you have comments, leave them, but do not belittle me. Have an open discussion.

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This was a letter sent to Glenn Beck from a listener that he had on the radio program yesterday. Can you identify with this letter.

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.

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You know our move toward a more socialist country is out of control when criticism comes from the former Soviet Union! 

Merge of U.S. and Soviet Ideas

 Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital, creates an unequal society, and does not provide equal opportunities for everyone in society. (Wikipedia) This is what I believe to be Obama’s understanding and guiding factor for his vision in his presidency

     An article in Pravda online magazine speaks of our march toward Marxism and blatant this move is. The author, Stanislav Mishin, has written about how American capitalism is dying. Piece by piece it is disappearing.

     Our Government is making moves that are unheard of in a free market society. Some steps involve communist ideas such as common ownership. GM, AIG are examples of this. Others are socialist in nature. Equality for all no matter how hard one works is a central idea here. Marxism , however is leading us into this future that very few people realize or want. Marxism is an economic political theory by which law is considered an instrument of oppression and control, and which the ruling class uses against the working class. (Wikipedia)

     The government is the true ruling class and they are using the rule of law to oppress the way of life in the United States. Our Government officials do not truly represent us anymore. They represent their own political agendas. Our ability to enact change is a smoke screen and the proverbial carrot on a string.  It seems as though the government is getting in business for themselves. The only way they can pay for all these large entitlement programs is to get income from business. Taxes are not enough to feed the insatiable appetite of the larger government programs. Mishin recognizes this. He has been writing on the fall of U.S. Capitalism for some time. In October of 2008 Mishin wrote another article for the Pravda online news outlet. It can be found here at the Information Clearing House.

     His perspective is one of a person who lived in a communist country that was headed toward severe socialism. Now Russia is much more open. They are still a mixture of communism and capitalism, but they are polar opposites of the once massive Cold war Russia. They have embraced the ideas of free market capitalism for the most part. They also involve the people much more in their decision making.  The point, is that they went the opposite direction. We are moving backwards.

     Ex. It is like two cars passing in opposite directions on a two lane road. Russia is driving away from the cliff having climbed out of the cavern at it’s end. The United States seems to be ignoring that fact that the Russian car is driving away. We are driving at the cliff at 100mph.

     Our Driver, evidently knows of an invisible bridge or is completely blind. Hopefully we find out before the bottom of the cavern swallows us whole and China takes over the world.

     A lot of smart people are warning of what is going on and how we are getting there. We are getting there by borrowing from everyone in the world to the point where it is going to be virtually impossible to repay our debts. Glenn Beck is speaking out against these moves daily. Ben Bernanke, our Fed Chairman even said today while at a hearing on Capital Hill, “large U.S. budget deficits threaten financial stability and the government can’t continue indefinitely to borrow at the current rate to finance the shortfall.” He also said,  “Unless we demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal sustainability in the longer term, we will have neither financial stability nor healthy economic growth.” (courtesy of Bloomberg) Even if his political views are parallel to the President’s and his administration, Bernanke knows we can not keep the faucet open forever.

     Let’s hope the government heads his warnings. The Fed Chairman was practicing the idea of (CYA) to the American people today! We are in dangerous territory and he is protecting himself.

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OK, so I went to a couple of tea parties this last week. I wanted to write about the good and the bad that I experienced. (more…)

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