The Letter Glenn Beck Read on National TV...

The following letter, read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of your friends... GLENN BECK: 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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it.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 I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed.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 he will 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.

Let me ask you a question....

If(when) the government takes over the health care system, who do you think is going to pay for it?

Yeah....YOU are.

a few ways the government can raise the kind of money we are talking about to pay for everyone's health care:

-doctors will have to cut their fees. No way can a doctor tell the government what the price is...the government will the tell the doctors EXACTLY what they can can charge. Why are doctors okay with this?

-YOUR taxes will increase.

-Services & drugs that might save your life will be unavailable to you. A new cancer treatment, a breakthrough drug or fancy MRI machine will not be made available to you because you might be too old, too overweight, too far "gone" to save. Seriously- you want a board of government employees telling you and your family what treatment that they will pay for?

I am not saying that our system is perfect, it is far from perfection....BUT....a government run system is not what most Americans want.

Email me some solutions that you think could change the system for the better.

Get out your checkbook,

Misty B.

The $50 Lesson

I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day.
Both of her parents,liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed with pride."Wow...what a worthy goal."
I told her, "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.
"She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me....

Tea party

My first rally! It was fantastic. I am inspired. I am proud.

Today was my very first political rally and it might have changed me. I think the first thing that i discovered is that I am not the last free standing Republican, free market, Constitution waving American in this land. Sure I know of some politicians that run on a Republican platform but today I saw some of them walk the walk and talk (shout) the talk. These people were...dare I say...more Republican than I am.

I am a free market kind of woman. I like the private industry, and the good old fashioned work for everything you can mentality. I WANT to work hard for every dime I earn, it makes me feel like a better human.

Today's events inspired me to do more and get involved with grass roots efforts to elect the kind of people that I want in office. Heck, maybe someday I will run for office, God knows my heart is in it.

Now I have to run to the bank and make a deposit...so I can cover my TAX bill,

Misty B.

Drinking the Kool aid

Onmy recent visit to Washington DC i was warned about drinking the Kool aid. While I didnt find the city to have chaned since President Bush was in office, I did notice more talk on street about the "rock star" qualities of President Obama and the impending change that was afloat. During these discussions with taxi drivers, locals and shop owners, I found myself slowly deciding that there is some amount of change that needs to happen.

So, here is what I said, outloud: I am fine with a government run system, as long as agents remain a vital part of the system.

Yep....me, the mother of all free market systems may have been won over by the sweeping change. I'm still not sure how we are going to pay for it, where doctor;s will find the extra time to see all of us and how the hospitals will expand to find bed's for us all.

I'm reminded of a story....when you go to a buffet and there is steak, chicken, shrimp and lobster. Most people get the most expensive thing (and lots of it) cause they all paid one price. Who wants to eat chicken when you can have lobster? Who is going to skip dessert and extra bread? No one. The same thing translated into medical care. If everyone is playing for it...we are all going to start using it. No more home remedies, herbs, and living with something. We are all going to rushing to the health care buffet.

I just made myself hungry,

Misty B.

If I have EVER helped you as your agent......

Here is a note received today from the Janet Trautwein, Executive Vice-President and CEO of the
National Association of Health Underwriters:

As you can tell from all the recent events reported in Washington Update, there is a flurry of activity surrounding health care reform, with a strong emphasis on health insurance reform. I want to assure you again that we are at the table and a part of the important discussions going on. We are committed to finding a solution that will include things that will really help you and your clients. We are determined to be sure that private health insurance coverage will not only continue to be the primary means of coverage for health care, but also be improved upon and available to more people. We are determined to be absolutely certain that you will be able to continue to provide your clients with the outstanding service they receive now in obtaining and maintaining their health plans.We’re going to need your help with that. Although we have a great deal of support from both sides of the aisle, it would help to have some more solid evidence that agents and brokers do more than just help with the initial sale. Here in Washington, DC, legislators want proof that what they’re doing is right. We need some real stories, and we need them now. If you can tell your own story, that’s great. If your client can tell it, that’s even better. Either way, please tell us how you serve your clients.

Email your stories to brokersmakingadifference@nahu.org.

If you value the service of an agent, please send a note to the e-mail address above. If you have anything specific in an area that I have helped you, please elaborate in your e-mail. Please copy me on your e-mail. Thanks – I appreciate you!

FIGHT NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE!!!

Misty B.

Live from the house insurance committee!

3zve seen bloggers do 'live' reports from legislative meetings or other cool even...so I thought I would give it a try myself!

ok, so I am sitting her in house insurance committee and Rep.Larry Taylor SO gets insurance. he asks really good questions and makes so much sense! he knows what an agent does. another huge bonus...he asks the tough questions! he makes these meetings so exciting. today we are hearing about minimum loss ratio's.

I have to give huge props to will haff & joanna a. (sorry didn't want to butcher your last name) for driving to austin and sitting with us for more than 3 hours (we are still in the meeting, so it could be 5 hours...remember this is live). plus Will is testifying on a bill for TAHU!

MLR's could cut agent commissions, so I am pretty interested in this bill (& the others i've seen this session)...my boys are hungry.

OMG! Will is up now! he is doing great...I will let you know what happens to the bill.

I need an I love Larry Taylor t-shirt,

Misty B.