A Man's Letter To His Senators
Sep 8, 2013 15:30:01 #
Anyone reading this forum for the first time would probably think that the membership is pretty much divided up between liberals and conservatives. In most of the threads that people start, the "cons" are blaming everything on the "libs", and the "libs" are blaming everything on the "cons".
In addition to the "Cons" and "Libs", we also have the "trolls"; (I think everyone knows who the trolls are already, so I won't bother to name them.)
A great deal of time and effort is expended by both sides, attempting to "blame" the "other side". I have known for a long time now, that there are people on BOTH sides that are causing the problems, which, in the end, are inevitably going to destroy the whole country, and everyone in it. Or at least everyone lacking the "means" to go live someplace else; (Even assuming that there IS "someplace else".)
Below is a true letter, written by a real citizen, to his two Senators who "in theory", are supposedly "representing" him in the United States Senate. I think EVERY U.S. citizen should read this letter, because it's ALL TRUE.
Letter to Senators:
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 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 rife 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
This is a true letter. Look it up online.
In addition to the "Cons" and "Libs", we also have the "trolls"; (I think everyone knows who the trolls are already, so I won't bother to name them.)
A great deal of time and effort is expended by both sides, attempting to "blame" the "other side". I have known for a long time now, that there are people on BOTH sides that are causing the problems, which, in the end, are inevitably going to destroy the whole country, and everyone in it. Or at least everyone lacking the "means" to go live someplace else; (Even assuming that there IS "someplace else".)
Below is a true letter, written by a real citizen, to his two Senators who "in theory", are supposedly "representing" him in the United States Senate. I think EVERY U.S. citizen should read this letter, because it's ALL TRUE.
Letter to Senators:
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 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 rife 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
This is a true letter. Look it up online.
Sep 8, 2013 15:41:24 #
Everyone should send this letter to their senators/representatives (with a few modifications of course). It is so true.
Sep 8, 2013 15:42:47 #
Sep 8, 2013 15:43:57 #
Gitzo UH wrote:
Anyone reading this forum for the first time would... (show quote)
What an amazing depiction of what is wrong with this country. Well stated.
Sep 8, 2013 16:14:20 #
To all the readers who agree with these views, please take the time to read Mark Levin's latest book "The Liberty Amendments." In the first chapter he advocates FOR term limits. The author goes on to explain how we, the people, can actually make this happen.
Sep 8, 2013 16:14:20 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
Very good and nobody and that means you as well, will do a damn thing about it.
Sep 8, 2013 16:49:09 #
Sep 8, 2013 16:49:09 #
Sep 8, 2013 16:53:25 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
must be really tired ole sarge, still struggling to post one at a time.
Sep 8, 2013 17:20:13 #
Hey ole sarg, you are stuttering again. Was it really that far over your head? Your response does not surprise me, especially coming from such a boring incompetent unintelligent poor soul that you are....
:thumbdown: :thumbdown: :(
ole sarg wrote:
Yawn!
:thumbdown: :thumbdown: :(
Sep 8, 2013 17:52:44 #
Black Bart
Loc: Indiana
ole sarg wrote:
Yawn!
Congress is not the only problem it is also idiots like ole sarge that keeps voting for these people.
Sep 8, 2013 20:52:47 #
Black Bart wrote:
Congress is not the only problem it is also idiots like ole sarge that keeps voting for these people.
Bart.......You just hit the nail squarely on the head! In my opinion, congress is EXACTLY like this man says, but when you stop to think about it, there's only about 500 people in the Congress! And "the people" put every one of them there!
The REAL problem in the "ole sargs" of the world; mindless morons who "yawn" when someone tells the truth! That's precisely what the Democratic party is made of.......millions of mindless morons! (Maybe we should start calling them the MMM Party ?)
Sep 8, 2013 21:00:51 #
dharlan wrote:
To all the readers who agree with these views, please take the time to read Mark Levin's latest book "The Liberty Amendments." In the first chapter he advocates FOR term limits. The author goes on to explain how we, the people, can actually make this happen.
dharlan........Welcome to UHH ! I think you will really like it here; thousands of astute, clear thinking people, interspersed with a hundred or so various and sundry trolls, pin-heads, and assorted obozo fan-boys. (We have them vastly outnumbered though !)
BTW......I listen to Mark's broadcast most evenings.....a Great American!
Sep 8, 2013 22:15:46 #
Gitzo, why is it that you have such fear of debating? It seems all you are capable of is throwing insults at anyone who disagrees with any of your points. Which, incidentally, is exactly why Congress is so dysfunctional these days - no real debates, no political compromising for the sake of the people and nation. Only mud slinging. Yes, BOTH parties are equally guilty of this.
If you want to call me a troll, knock yourself out. That's what you do best.
If you want to call me a troll, knock yourself out. That's what you do best.
Sep 8, 2013 22:35:37 #
His letter describes the scourge the busybody progressives have inflicted on the country through the force of government. They can't stand individual liberty and are incessant on making sure everyone lives according to their control freak diseased minds. Old lizards such as ole sarge are the cheerleaders of tyranny of the majority that slink into collectivist revulsions when individual liberty is championed. He and his ilk are a disease that eat away at the fiber of our country. Until they are stopped it will continue sliding into the abyss of dependency, grayness and shared poverty except for the elite at the very top of his beloved oppressive government. These marauders make me ill to the bone.
Great letter. I wish him well.
Great letter. I wish him well.
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