<p>I know there are tools to get text files to resource files for Visual Studio.  But I want to get the text from my resource files to a text file so they can be translated.  Or is there a better way to do this?  </p>

You could use
Resx Editor
, a small translation-oriented file editor.
Target audience: translators.
Supported file format: Microsoft RESX 2.0
Here is a link to Joannès Vermoel's (the author of the free tool)
weblog entry
about it.