This morning Lori and I are headed to Denver with Mojo for a haircut and some errands. We’ll stop and see my Mom and be back by 4 or so. I’d like to use the rest of today’s post to share with you a letter from a 79 year old man to his Senator in Congress. Do yourself a favor and read on and then pass it on. God Bless.
This came from a democrat much to my surprise! I read it and it certainly
hits the nail where it would hurt. Google has the letter posted on their
web site.
This is well written…….and should be read by everyone in these United
States!
It will be well worth the three 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
- All I can say is amen to everything he said. A very articulate letter
sent to the two U.S. Senators from Washington State.â€
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 and 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.” Â 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 $19 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 the country that I deeply love. You have 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
