My message to Faith Jones

Recently, I got an e-mail from Meetup telling me that Faith Jones had a new post, which was sent out to everyone on the list of the Northwest Indiana Patriots. Her message pretty much confirmed everything I've been saying for the past few months. I'm responding to that post.

For the 6-10 people posting on this site, we might as well exchange email addresses and converse amongst ourselves. I can save the money I spend on this site, and give MORE to the candidates I think will make a difference in Indiana, and in the White House.

Oh, thank you, Faith, for confirming this for me. 10-12 has been the size of the NWIP's recent rallies. Yeah, sure your supporters are claiming the number is closer to 30-50, but the people counting are probably the same people who do Mark Leyva's secret polling.

There are many reasons why there are only this small hand full of people left, but you illustrated one of them with this e-mail. You're a jerk. Seriously, this was a demeaning e-mail. Allow me to make an observation. Kind of like Leyva, you're a jerk to politicians and politicians (except outgoing Democrat Commissioner Bob Harper) want nothing to do with either of you. When people send you constructive criticism in private, you respond by calling them racist, sexist, corrupt, or whatever else you think you can get away with. Coincidentally, anyone who wants to offer advice wants nothing to do with you.

I'm writing this for the public, in part, because I want everyone to be able to see what it is I wrote before you e-mail your six friends and tell them to call the Wizard irrelevant names.

"I" pay for this site. I have to question my own "fiscal responsibility/" What's the purpose of this site if not to post what you have learned about "business as usual" I was thinking I would come to this site to LEARN more from "YOU", the "concerned citizens" and thought I would come to this site to see everyone was "MAD AS HELL" about this bill!!

Except that when members post things that others disagree with, they are called a bigot, homophone, idiot, spammer, troll, or corrupt insider by other members. In other words, more jerky behavior. I actually wrote about this! Why in the world would anyone want to be a member of this group when its members act more immature than a group of stereotypical high school cheer leaders?

T-I-N-F-O-I-L ... TINFOIL! HATS! Yay! Go us!

Speaking of which, what happened to that young man who gave that "Mad As Hell" speech at one of your early events? Oh yeah, you ran him out of town, too! Perhaps this is a little petty but "run-on" "sentence."

Have you questioned your elected officials why this extension wasn't permanent? Have you questioned them on "what's their plan" for tax reform? Have you asked them why a "SINGLE ISSUE" bill wasn't voted on? A straight up or down vote on JUST one issue?

Considering how many hours you've spent at your "day job" surfing the internet, I'm kind of surprised you don't appreciate wasteful spending. It pays your salary. I'm also kind of surprised that you haven't found the answer to this yet. There are a lot of members of Congress. A lot of them are Democrats. They would probably like the extensions to continue for lower and middle class families. For the upper-class, they would like the rates to go back up. If you ask, they will explain their point of view in detail. The problem is that you don't "ask" anything. You tell them what you want and don't care about anything else. Standard jerk behavior. Granted, I think the tax cuts should be made permanent across the board, but that's irrelevant. My point is that NOTHING can be made permanent because there are so many different points of view that any and all legislation must be done through compromise. The time table is one way to get a few more crucial votes to at least extend the tax cuts. Without it, the bill will fail. As a result, even people who want the bill to be permanent will vote to limit it to two years because two more years of tax cuts is better than it abruptly ending. The same goes for all the pork that's attached to it.

Besides that, as such an outspoken advocate of the Constitution, I'm surprised you're even taking the word "permanent" seriously. It's a gimmick word to get people like you riled up. The only way to make the tax code permanent is with a Constitutional Amendment, and even that's not permanent because another Amendment could overturn it. It's even easier with normal legislation, which is what is used to determine our tax code.

If you could stop talking and start listening for a few minutes, you might be able to figure this stuff out for yourself.

What have you done to keep your fellow neighbors informed? This site is not a social club!! We are to be "Pro-active" citizens.

Again, talking and not listening. Faith, why not try practicing what you preach? Let people be what they want to be or let them stand where they want to stand? There are 300+ people on your list. Guess what - you ticked off most of them a long time ago. People who would have once attended one of your rallies in the pouring rain would now rather stay at home and watch Fox News. Whenever you talk to people, you talk down to them as though they're not doing enough. The truth of the matter is that you should be happy if they simply go out and vote.

Again, Mark Leyva has the same problem. He, like you, is convinced that other people need to do more than what they are willing to do. When they don't do what the two of you want, you throw temper tantrums. Unfortunately, you've been voting Democrat for so long that you must not be able to understand that the conservatives you're dealing with aren't the kind of people who will sit down with, let alone cave in to, an elderly woman behaving like a three year old. They owe you NOTHING and if you're going to continue behaving like this, NOTHING is all you're going to get.

Thank you to the concerned citizens that are posting. To all the others...I ask: Are you watching Monday night football? I absolutely see no reason to pay for this site if we aren't here to educate one another and "WAKE THE PEOPLE UP".

If someone tells Faith Jones or any of the 6 people who are still posting that they aren't allowed to smoke because it's a disgusting habit, they become enraged. But when their incompetent leader belittles people because they're watching Monday Night Football, nothing. Faith Jones, we're not all liberal, European-loving pansies. We're Americans, damn it and we love American football! If you had one, microscopic shred of credibility left with anyone, you lost it if they saw this.

Here's an idea. You are prepared to pull money from the site and donate it to the Democr - oops- I mean candidates you want to win. Why not pull your time away from Northwest Indiana Patriots all together and give that to the candidate of your choice, too? Assuming there's anyone foolish enough to want you in their corner. Your failures as an organizer over the past year are proven by the failures and resulting irrelevance of the Northwest Indiana Patriots today.

If you step away now, there's a chance someone might step up, rename the group, fix your mistakes, and salvage something that's actually useful to the conservative movement in Northwest Indiana rather than being another embarrassment to that movement. Don't worry, it's not going to be me. I'm too old, too busy with my family, and it would probably require me to stop watching high school, college, and pro football. I do know this. Even if nobody takes it over, it will be better for conservatives up here than if this failing group continues to humiliate conservatives in all levels of involvement in the process.

You wouldn't even have to apologize to all the conservatives you've helped double cross, stab in the back, or otherwise attack over the past year and a half. I think I can safely say that stepping down would be enough of an apology for most of us.