Why am I coming to the Enough Is Enough Rally?

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 10:41pm — Coffee Party Nation

By Cyn Stoltz of Andover, MA

I wish I had some incredibly intellectual answer as to why I am speaking at the Enough is Enough Rally in October but, in all honesty, it is simply a response to everything that has been happening in our world. I feel it's the right thing to do and the place we need to be.

I am one of the millions long considered the “silent majority.” I, like many others, am repulsed by the actions of our elected representatives and yet I continue to be silent while they destroy everything past generations believed in and worked so hard for. However, I strongly believe it is no longer enough to just rant to your friends or to tweet and sound off on Facebook. I think we need to go to Washington so that we are seen and heard. Perhaps by standing up and speaking out, I can inspire more to follow suit. It is time to drown out the rhetoric of those who say they speak for us when in fact they only speak for their wallets and the people who line those wallets. The time to be silent is long gone.

When I listen to officials openly admit their main goal is to defeat President Obama in 2012, rather than to serve the people that elected them, I know something is dreadfully wrong. How could that be their priorities! What about the thousands of children in this country who continually go to bed and wake up hungry? Or what about the people who cannot get medical insurance and medical care? Did they also forget about the unemployed? Some of our citizens have been unemployed for two or more years and probably have little or no hope of finding employment that will allow them to provide for their families and live with dignity. Many of our representatives seem to not care. I care. We should all care.

Both parties have their bad apples but I am particularly upset with this current crop of Republicans that campaigned on JOBS. They were going to be the party that set the country back on the right track. Well, what they neglected to say was that the track they were championing was only for the top 2% to obtain more wealth. I would call it a track for the ultra-rich but if you ask the Republicans they would call them “job creators.” And if you believe that one, then you deserve to have destructive and self-serving opportunists running the country.

Our officials have turned our political processes into a joke and I am fed up. We need solutions, not rhetoric. We need people to come together for the good of this nation, not for the good of corporations (who, by the way are not people) and we need these politicians to remember why they were elected. It is time to take back our country from the fat cats and the special interest groups. We need to work together to build our country back up to what it can and should be. I have so much more to say, but I think this is enough for the moment. We have to start someplace and this is the place. I can only hope and pray we have not put it off too long.

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