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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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

Before I go into some key pieces of how the democrats and republicans plan on stimulating our economy I wanted to describe what the economic stimulus plan should be doing….STIMULATING THE ECONOMY. So to stimulate the economy we need people spending money. This means that they need to be working and they need access to cash. If people work, they can spend, we produce more which means we need more people working to produce or delivery products and services. Seems simple enough. Great cycle to be in.

As I write this I’m listening to the morning news talk about more job losses at another company while at the same time I’m reading an article in the Wall Street Journal discussing womens groups protest dropping contraceptives provision in the stimulus package.  Just how in the heck is providing contraceptives going to stimulate the economy.  The USA Today has an article that this plan will take years to have a full impact.  How is something that will take years to have an impact have an impact on our economy NOW.  If you want to stimulate the economy now, start by letting those that are working keep more of the money they earn (that means reducing taxes for those that went to public school) and allow businesses to grow which will provide more jobs.

Economic Stimulus Package specifics.  Remember that this is on top of money that most of these entities are already getting from the government.  This is also just a small portion the complete list.

As you read these think about how this will stimulate the economy (preserve jobs, allow you to keep more money to buy more goods and services, create jobs).

• $6.7 billion for renovations and repairs to federal buildings
• $6.2 billion to help low-income families reduce their energy costs by weatherizing their homes
• $1 billion to ensure a successful 2010 census
• $600 million so the government can by new vehicles
• $6 billion for broadband and wireless services in under served areas (guess I won’t need that wifi card anymore)
• $3 billion to the National Science Foundation for expanding employment opportunities in science and engineering (not sure if this is the area of unemployment that’s a problem today)
• $400 million to NASA to put more scientists to work doing climate change research (I’ve heard about Home Depot, Caterpillar and Starbucks doing layoffs, not NASA.  Poor scientists)
• $6 billion to purchase buses and equipment to increase public transportation (but I like driving my own car)
• $44 million for repairs to the USDA Headquarters
• $245 million for IT improvements to the Farm Service Agency
• $550 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (what about all the casino money)
• $550 million to modernize Indian Health Service Facilities (again….casino money)
• $500 million to modernize native american housing (one more time…casino money)
• $500 million to help the Social Security Administration process claims
• $20 billion to computerize health care records (1.  Do you want them having access to your medical records. 2. Google and Microsoft are already working on this without any help from the government)
• $4.19 billion to ACORN for “Neighborhood stabilization activities”.  Don’t see how providing any money to ACORN is going to stimulate the economy.  Seems more like a payback for all the extra votes.

An update…did some more reading of the House Bill (these will continue as I read more of this)

• page 112 – $1.7 billion for maintenance within the National Park System
• page 113 – $100 million for the National Park Service Centennial Challenge
• page 122 – $50 million to fund art projects
• page 147 – $335 million for STD prevention

Obama shields ACORN from criminal prosecution in the economic crisis

ACORN registers Mickey Mouse…really, when is someone going to get serious about this group.

Bush bashing film released prior to election while Pro McCain documentary held up until after the election.
And from Hank Williams Jr

Bogus ACORN registrant caught casting vote

ACORN pays to signups up teenager 73 times

7 year old registered by ACORN to vote

The Obama campaign is now distancing itself from ACORN

Did you know…It’s estimated that ACORN has registered 1.3 million voters in 18 states this year.

Houston has 4,000 dead votes on it’s roster.  Women casts her ballot in person although she dies 10 months earlier.

ACORN registers fraudulent voters in Missouri

ACORN paying people in cash and cigarette’s to register multiple times in Ohio

ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe.

ACORN files 2000 bogus voter registration forms in northern Indiana’s Lake County

Obama is the first national candidate ever to hire ACORN for get out the vote activities.

“Acorn’s Political Arm Has Endorsed Mr. Obama While Its ‘Voter Education’ Arm Has Pledged To Spend $35 Million To Register People This Fall…” (John Fund, Op-Ed, “Obama’s Liberal Shock Troops,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/12/08)

“Sen. Obama Is Especially Reliant On Registration Drives, Such As Acorn’s With Project Vote, To Help Him Win The White House.” (Elizabeth Williamson and Brody Mullins, “Democratic Ally Mobilizes In Housing Crunch,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/31/08)

“In 1992, Acorn Hired Mr. Obama To Run A Voter Registration Effort. He Later Became A Trainer For The Group, As Well As Its Lawyer In Election Law Cases.” (John Fund, Op-Ed, “Obama’s Liberal Shock Troops,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/12/08)