Posted on 10/07/2013 8:31:24 AM PDT by Twotone
Roger that. Murray and Cantwell could give two craps about the letter writer(righter!). Cantwell won’t have to worry about money in any case. She could refuse to take any senatorial retirement money and she’s still set for life. Maybe she could move to Dumbassistan. Or the Island of Moronica.
This is OK as far as it goes.
However the tables will get turned when the “We The People” who volunteered to take charge of the USA through its main charter, the Constitution, actually DO that again.
They can complain till they are blue in the face about what Senators do to get re-elected, but until these shenanigans of Senators actually begin to fall on deaf ears, “We The People” are getting just what they invited.
The USA started off well because most of its people had a firm sense of a second, larger, more powerful kingdom to which they belonged or at least owed some sort of allegiance. This was the kingdom of God. Little by little the people have let the infernal powers steal their allegiance to this larger kingdom away. The result: they expect the earthly kingdom to do what only God’s could. It because a humongous mess, a train wreck, a nemesis. And God jolly well knows it and intends the chaos to be a wake up call. The gospel never vanished. Only the esteem in which it was held, dwindled.
Nicely phrased.
And yet we cannot stop here. We must get a larger view. Why would anybody want to work, ever, if they could game the system instead.
That involves a matter of honor, and honor comes from the Creator. And I’ve got to do that myself too or I become a hypocrite... so bye for now.
As the USA becomes, with every new revelation of corruption, the Babylon foretold by the last book of the Bible, Revelation, godly people can only pray fervently that these are the last days before Judgment Day. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!
” I wonder what would happen if the Senate received a few million copies of it, with an ‘I agree’ on top.”
Good idea...Thank you for sharing.
I remember THAT letter, but didn’t remember the author’s name. Maybe he’s moved to Washington state. ;-)
As obviously, they don't work. But I disagree about their "gaming the system." My cynical viewpoint is that it is no accident that the system is set up intentionally to support the lazy worthless parasites that it does. That the welfare system is designed to create dependency and reliably Democratic voters.
“how so many Americans cannot see his antics is beyond me”
I believe there are two explanations for that: 1) those who cannot see and, 2) those who will not see.
1) Can not see - The communists have controlled education and entertainment for decades. Too many people are ignorant and morally corrupt.
2) Will not see - Those lazy, selfish people have been bought. As long as their food stamps and other perks roll in, they don’t care to see where the money comes from or the damage being done.
The house at this address is valued at around $600,000. That is not the house of a median income person; as a result, it rings a little false for this person to be complaining about the high salaries of politicians.
I do like the sentiment, however. I wish this letter were verifiable.
From the frying pan into the fire! lol
The author says it all.
America’s political elite live very much like the kings and queens they believe they are. For the great majority of them, once they cross the Potomac into their cushy, “Senator/Congressmember-for-life” existence, their singular goal.. above all.. is preservation of that lofty status for themselves.
Snopes verifies its attribution.
How many years ago did he buy the house? My mother and father bought their house almost fifty years ago; my mother still lives there, a widow for forty years with never more than a median income, and it’s valued at more than 600,000.
Thanks! Twotone needs to know. :-)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoonover.asp
He has written several and they are verified by Snopes.
I feel like you, term limits.
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