Posted on 10/12/2009 3:38:46 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
TO THE CONGRESS:
The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.
Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.
The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.
Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.
Trillions of taxpayers' dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of working, and the corrupt ACORN appears to have found a permanent funding source: the American taxpayer.
And finally, to set a new record:
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took some good dependable cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments!!!!!!
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?
Which is 20% of our entire economy?
OUTSTANDING!!! Too bad none of those power hungry buffoons in DC will acknowledge those facts.
Does anyone know if this was actually sent to Congress? I would love to send it to them all.
>C’mon, I need a show of hands!
Don’t say that... one of these rabid government-healthcare goons will start dismembering people so he can show their hands [in support of it].
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What would be outstanding is if we could get a massive amount of signatures onto a “cease and desist” restraining order on Congress, and zero too!! Until the economy comes back. No new laws, no new taxes, no new restriction or regulations or fees. All we would allow them to do us cut.
Tell Conress if they shove this down our throat in 2009, we’ll shove it up their ass in 2010!
Maybe we could get a group in every single one of America’s 3500 plus counties to file suit in federal court on the same day, the same suit.
Those are EIGHT “Theses” that need to be nailed to the doors of Congress, just as Luther nailed his 95 to the door of the church at Wittenberg. Do we need 87 more or will these 8 do? Anyone up for this kind of guerrilla theater, because this kind of thing can ONLY be done that way, as a part of a second, ten times larger March on Washington. Believe me, it’s gonna happen. And this time there will be NO dispute over the numbers.
Hilton: Whatcha think of that Statler ?....’Here,here’...was that ass or bass?
Taking back the Congress will be one heck of a fight. King Obama and his machine has taken over the voting system and they will exercise control over the results. Case in point, Al Frankin vote. The communists have most of the Country set up to keep themselves in power. And they are continuing buying more of the voters. We can forget the House, the hill is too high to fight.
See my #9
This is what it is going to come to, even if the Dem majority sobers up a little and starts backtracking.
The numbers don’t improve, day by day, week by week, and
all most of us are wishing for is not to become one of the statistics that we listen to on the news.
NAIL IT TO THE DOOR! Don’t “send” it to them.
THey have YET to pay attention, the Democrat majority, to ANYTHING the 47% of us have said or done since Jan. 20th.
THEY DON’T INTEND TO EITHER. WHY IS ANYONE EXPECTING ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE LIKES OF REID,PELOSI, OBAMA,etc.???
WHY????
I agree with you..........we will have to march on DC again......this time we each bring 20 friends.
I don’t know if it would even be seen? No idea if that kind of thing has ever, or even can be done.
Large, entrenched, and long standing institutions can lose their legitimacy seemingly over night. Just ask the Catholic Church. Ask King George III about our American Revolution.
By the way, check my tag line.
You should make that statement your missing tagline.
Don’t you realize that the Postal System makes FedEx and UPS competitive?
I wholeheartedly agree. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Washington can’t do ANYTHING RIGHT! NOTHING!! Not one thing!
Every bill Congress passes is designed to help THEIR friends and SCREW US! They’ve been treating us like brainless cash cows for my entire life. Bullsh!!!
One-third of what the government collects in revenue is spent on INTEREST on the debt. Not to pay down that whopping debt we owe, but just to pay the INTEREST!!! And they’re still borrowing billions upon trillions more!! They are killing us!!
Any tax cut, especially one that would create jobs and allow businesses to start hiring people again, is a tax cut that “benefits the rich.” And that’s because ONLY the rich are paying taxes, with “rich” defined as anybody with a decent job. HALF THE COUNTRY is excused from income taxes, so OF COURSE tax cuts help the wealthy. (Whatever happened to everybody paying their fair share?)
WE THE PEOPLE know what needs to be done about illegal immigrants flooding across our borders but THEY refuse to act. Oh yeah?
WE THE PEOPLE know what to do about ACORN and communist advisors to the president and a host of other problems. But they don’t listen to us anymore. Because there is no common sense left in our government. None.
Well, WE THE PEOPLE must either fix it, burn it to the ground and start over, or grab our ankles! And I for one am NOT grabbing my ankles! NOT HAPPENING!!
So, here is my personal plan of action:
First, ALL INCUMBENTS IN CONGRESS — OUT!!! (Niki Tsongas ... you first!) And don’t give me that “My guy is OK, but the rest suck” line of hogwash. If “your guy” has been in for more than one term, and we’ve still got all of these problems, then he is part of the problem. OUT!! ALL OF THEM!! Tell your wonderful guy to sit out a term and come back in a couple of years, if you’re really that enamored. Otherwise, FIRE THEM ALL!!
Second, I will vote ONLY for candidates who swear on their life to support and promote the Constitution. With the Constitution strong and healthy, we are strong and healthy (and wealthy, too)! Without the Constitution, we are nothing. And right now, it doesn’t look like anybody is enforcing our sacred document, which leaves us in very dangerous straits.
Third and finally, I will continue agitating for states to take action, as drastic and even violent as necessary, to bring the federal monster to heel. If those we send to Washington can’t right the ship — and I’m willing to give our new representatives ONE CHANCE to turn things around — then it’s up to the states. God bless ‘em ... and they may fire when ready!
Remember, that militia mentioned as “... being necessary to the security of a free state” is made up of you and I, and that “free state” is the one YOU live in!
Good luck, FReepers! The next few years are going to be wild ones.
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