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
quite smarter
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.
___________________________________
April 3, 2013
Senator Patty
Murray
Senator Maria
Cantwell
Washington, DC
, 20510
Dear Senator:
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.
"Obama Care,"
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, WA
98277
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