A
dying senior citizen tells it
like it is...
Worth
the minutes to read
Editor’s
note: I typically pay little attention to forwarded
emails like this, but it came from a trusted source and it was specific
to CNO
and one other individual, so I checked it out. No factfinder site
commented and
it has appeared on several blogs, so here it goes…
This
is well written! 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 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 ripe 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
Oak
Harbor, WA 98277
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