Posted on 06/22/2016 12:48:39 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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." 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
Excellent. No doubt that pill will be forcibly administered very soon for exercising his first amendment rights as a citizen, because we all know those rights are only for non-citizens now.
Good letter.
“...The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on...”
Either that or they’ll get a good laugh before they toss it in trash...
“Professional Politicians” are corrupt as hell and don’t care about you or any of us...
Great letter though and you hit it squarely...
Misguided, low-information citizens demanded the 17th Amendment and they got it. Citizens can sleep in the bed that they made for themselves.
That letter should get him a nice audit and a visit from the Washington State euthanasia team.
Brilliant. Lets all remember Hillary and Bill were dead broke when they left the WH. They have really cashed in on us taxpayers.
I am unconvinced that either of those two old broads know how to read.
I already copied and pasted this email from this post and sent it out to many people. Everyone should do the same.
You are correct, The letter said it all. But the horror is that the libtards and RINO’s in both the House and the Senate don’t give a care about us. All they care are is getting more power and more money for themselves. Yes, term Limits would be a good start. Two Terms of the US Senate (Yes I know it is 12 years). In addition NO life long salary after leaving, No other benefits whatsoever. BTW, when I say 12 year, I mean 12 years TOTAL. No jumping from City to County to State to Federal. After your twelve years, no ability to lobby for another twelve years either.
Says it all......
Nothing more to say!
Says almost everything except for true campaign finance reform where only legally registered voters my donate to a political campaign and only for those who put themselves forward to represent that voter.
How they get to vote on thier pay raises is beyond me.
All those who are in and have been in our military should have the congress peoples gold healthcare and the congress people should have to battle with the VA for thiers
I’m 60. I regret I never served in the military. My admiration for those who have and do serve is second to none. As I read this I’m not ashamed to say my eyes are welling up with tears of sadness. The America I grew up in has vanished and my heart is broken. Over two hundred years ago men and women braver than any of us, some of them as young as sixteen risked their lives and many gave their lives to give us the country we are seeing evaporate. How would they look at us today seeing what they fought for being squandered? If Donald Trump and his supporters(of which I am one) cannot restore America to the great, righteous and moral nation it once was then either it dies or by God we’ve got just one chance at redemption, The Second Amendment. The Founders gave us this remedy as a last resort. They were mortal and knew as we all do that they would someday leave this earth but they were determined to leave a physical reminder of what it might someday require to defend our liberty, not from a threat from without but the one they knew best and feared the most- the threat from within. I’m not a violent man, I don’t lust for killing. But by God these scoundrels are killing us. They’re killing us with high taxes, they’re killing us by making it legal to kill the unborn and they’re killing us by allowing murderously determined savages from the pest holes of this planet to enter our country in droves...’’that when ever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter it or abolish it and institute new government’’. God help us but maybe the time has come for these scoundrels to be dealt with as our patriot forebears would have done.
I believe the “appropos” quote would be from the Indian (Lone Waite) in “The Outlaw Jose Wales”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRX6hSGeZs4
I wish you well.
HLB
Great film. Was on out east here over the weekend. Wishing you well too. Praying for America.
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