What Happened to America?
What Happened to America?
The only way to post this to Facebook, Tweeter and LinkedIn
is to cut-paste it like this and then either blog it or just post it if I can …
it is worth reading a letter by a Democrat to a Senator. (I inserted the Constitution)… Nonetheless, E
M Rowell is a friend who I follow. And I
got this in an email notification.
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Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:26 PM
Subject: What happened to America...?
To:
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 1:26 PM
Subject: What happened to America...?
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Good Letter from a Democrat.
This is a letter from a Democrat to
his two Democrat Senators. My belief is that it applies to virtually most
Senators of both parties and probably the House also. Caution, this is
political but also bipartisan. This is really a great letter. I am most
impressed by the fact the gentleman that wrote it signed his name and address
to it. Snopes.Com confirmed this letter to be true. 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 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.
HERE'S THE LETTER:
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.
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 $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
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