A Very Articulate Letter...one that all should read!!!
Words of advice from a Democrat to
his senators...
This is well written.......and
should be read by everyone in these United St
It will be well worth the two
minutes it requires to read this. It is quite impressive.
You can be Republican, Democrat,
Liberal, Conservative, Independent or Libertarian and I bet this will hit
a nerve. Our country is in real trouble!!!
This gentleman is obviously
much wiser than the two senators he sent it to. All I can say is amen to
everything he said. A very articulate letter sent to the two U.S.
Senators from Washington State.
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April 3, 2013
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington, DC , 20510
Dear Senators:
I have tried to live by the rules
my entire life. My father was a Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of
combat related stresses shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled
in me those virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and
obeying the laws of God and of our various governments. I have served my
country, paid my taxes, worked hard, volunteered and donated my fair share of
money, time and artifacts.
Today, as I approach my 79th
birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I
shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply
by a thousand fold. I have calculated that all the money I have paid in income
taxes my entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year!
Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the Senate dining
room costs the taxpayers. So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.
Last year, the president spent an
estimated $1.4 billion on himself and his family. The vice
president spends $millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so
far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become
America's answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the "perfumed
princes and princesses" of our country.
In the middle of the night, you
voted in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare," a bill which
no more than a handful of senators or representatives read more than several
paragraphs, crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves
from it substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance.
You live exceedingly well, eat and
drink as well as the "one percenters," consistently vote yourselves
perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income,
and give up nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due
to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the
Republicans, anyway).
You understand very well the only
two rules you need to know - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get
re-elected. And you do this with the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan
press, speeches permeated with a certain economy of truth, and by buying
the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens
(and non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote) who are looking for a
handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net" has become a
hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on food
stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife
with fraud with absolutely no congressional oversight?
I would offer that you are not
entirely to blame. What changed you is the seductive environment of power in
which you have immersed yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress
which requires you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done
until you have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan,
it appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a
remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.
As the hirsute first Baron John
Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902), English historian and moralist, so
aptly and accurately stated, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute
power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." I'm only
guessing that this applies to the female sex as well. Tell me,
is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress?
While we middle class people
continue to struggle, our government becomes less and less transparent, more
and more bureaucratic, and ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and
Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of light
bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we
can drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless
thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumer
more and more every day.
As I face my final year, or so,
with cancer, my president and my government tell me "You'll just have to
take a pill," while you, Senator, your colleagues, the president, and
other exulted government officials and their families will get the best
possible health care on our tax dollars until you are called home by your
Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of
course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for.
The chances of you reading this
letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, but with a
little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them with an auto
signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or
representative, has heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, go
on line where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion,
rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its
senators and representatives.
I only hope that occasionally you
might quietly thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you
have voted yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it
just goes on the $17 trillion national debt for which your children and
ours, and your grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to
pick up the tab.
My final thoughts are that it must
take a person who has either lost his or her soul, or conscience, or both,
to seek re-election and continue to destroy this country I
deeply love and put it so far in debt that we will never pay it off while your
lot improves by the minute, because of your power. For you, Senator, will never
stand up to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American
people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and
the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is
term limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden eggs.
And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up.
Sincerely,
Bill Schoonover
3096 Angela Lane
Oak Harbor, Washington
ONLY AMERICANS CAN SAVE AMERICA...WILL THEY????
1 comment:
Obama plays naked spades with Reggie during any Crisis. Says why I need this crap. I am president duly elected.
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