Submitted byL Ron Branson, VICTORY USA
ONLY AMERICANS CAN SAVE AMERICA ... WILL
THEY?
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 thousandfold. 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,
aka 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 online 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
"I swear to uphold and protect the United States Constitution
against all enemies both foreign and domestic… so help me GOD!"
The way the President and
Congress trample on the US Constitution makes you
wonder if
they ever read it!
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