sdarc
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AVery Articulate Letter...one that all must (should) read!!!
This came from a democrat much to my surprise! I read it and itcertainly hits the nail where it would hurt. Google has the letter posted ontheir web site.
This is well written.......and should be read by everyone in theseUnited States!
It will be well worth the two minutes it requires to read this. Itis quite impressive.
You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Independent or Libertarian and I bet this will hit a nerve. Ourcountry is in real trouble!!!
This gentleman is obviously quite smarter than the two senators hesent 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 aCommand Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortlyafter his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he feltimportant - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of ourvarious 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 Ilook at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few thingsabysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculatedthat all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keepthe Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lippedactuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. Soplease, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.
Last year, the president spent an estimated $1.4 billion onhimself and his family. The vice president spends $millions on hotels. Theyhave had 8vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become America's answer to the Saudi royalfamily. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of ourcountry.
In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable HealthCare Act, a.k.a. Obamacare," a bill which no more than a handful ofsenators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it downour throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting yourown taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance.
You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "onepercenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises whilemaking 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing whileyou (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due tosequestration (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 aidof an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certaineconomy of truth, and by buyingthe votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educatedcitizens (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 allDemocrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife with fraud with absolutelyno congressional oversight?
I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed youis the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. Itis the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate yourvirtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a leadership role.To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldestprofession (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 accuratelystated, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Great men are almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this appliesto the female sex aswell. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress?
While we middle class people continue to struggle, our governmentbecomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so muchmore dictatorial, using Czars andSecretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of lightbulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars wecan drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countlessthousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumermore and more every day.
As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and mygovernment tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you,Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officialsand their families will get the best possible health care on our tax dollarsuntil you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirementbeyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for.
The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero asyour staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter responsemight be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we willbelieve that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actuallycares. This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have thechance 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 taxpayerfor 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 trillionnational debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren andours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab.
My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has eitherlost his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-electionand continue to destroy thiscountry I deeply love and put it so far in debt that we will never pay it offwhile 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 theAmerican people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you andthe entire Congress.The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term limits. This, of course, willkill the goose that lays your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who woulddare to bring it up.
Sincerely,
Bill Schoonover
3096 Angela Lane
Oak Harbor, Washington
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoonover.asp
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