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Rep. McCotter Reads to House a Furious Letter From Jobless Constituent Blasting Porkulus

Dear Congressman McCotter,

I spoke with you on WJR Friday morning and want to thank you for your kindness and patience. I couldn’t get out everything I wanted to say because of my frustration. I would love to talk before Congress and the Senate. I would like to talk to them about the deplorable, reprehensible, and egregious waste they are considering with our tax dollars. I’m sorry this is long, but I want them to see what I see.

The wasteful spending they are considering is unconscionable to me. And I would like to ask them a few questions.

You see, I just lost my job. The company I worked for is eliminating 700 sales positions nationwide, about 15 will be affected in Michigan.

I would like to ask the Congress and Senate if they know what it’s like to sit at the dinner table and tell your 11 year old daughter that she can’t get a school yearbook because we need the money to buy groceries. And the stimulus package wants to give $4 Billion to ACORN, a company, I believe, that is under investigation for voter registration fraud. What jobs are they creating?

Do they know what it’s like to see the tears in your wife’s eyes when you tell her the conference call you were on just eliminated your position? And the stimulus package wants to spend $335 million on STD prevention? What jobs does that create?

Do they know what it feels like to tell your father in law that the daughter I married and promised to provide for that you just lost your job? And Barack Obama spends money on overseas abortions. And then says we need to end the politics of this issue. If he believed that he wouldn’t have done it, his decision was nothing but political. What jobs in the U.S. does that create?

Do they know what it feels like to return the shirts you just bought for work, on clearance, because you really needed new shirts and now you don’t even have a job? And Congress is taking an extra $93,000 each for petty cash increases. And WE are told to cut back on our spending? When I told my 7 year old son we had to make cuts he just wanted to know if we could still have our Sunday morning treat of a donut before we go to church. That’s all he wanted. I said we’d try our best. We’ve made sacrifices but you haven’t. .................

Here is my response to this guy's letter from another thread:

I've been there like this guy who wrote the letter. I know scarcity. I was raised by a single parent so that was my first lesson. Right now, I deliver autoparts, I used to be in IT, even CIO of one startup company. Still I do like my job, I get to learn more about cars and people I can count on to help me with cars, let's face it, we are headed to trouble and we need to learn as many skills as we can plus maybe I can make a career of it. Still it is a struggle to survive. I called Snarlin' Arlen not to vote for this turkey but he did. He and the two wenches from Maine sold us down the river. The welfare will flow to people who will just sit on their butts, drinking 40's until they are blind drunk while watching Oprah on their new HDTV's and subisized housing. Me, I watch a 1982 Zenith. I don't make a lot of money. I live at home with Mom, don't condemn me, I do my share of the chores and dump almost all my pay into the pot. I feel as long as they do that or at least their share of the load, then there are no problems of adult kids living at home.

Well, I must soon pwer down, I got a halfday tomorrow but it comes early, I'm 42, just starting middle age, but this bill will be on my back and many others.

There are times I can be a critic of Ayn Rand, but seeing this and the direction Hussein wants to take us, it is time for Atlas to Shrug.

Who is John Galt?