Comment #5

jarasan — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:57:16 GMT

We must reign in the bureaucrats, all of them.

Comment #4

rdgrnr — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:33:59 GMT

Dittoes.

Comment #3

MADDOG10 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:47:57 GMT

A true Patriot who's not afraid to tell the truth. I admire his candid truth, something the Senate and House doesn't know how to do. Straight from the hip.. My hats off to you Sir....!!!!

Comment #2

JAP69 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:13:45 GMT

Yep

Comment #1

sully16 — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:13:01 GMT

Right to the point, thanks Emily.

Original Blog Entry: Please read...

emilyg — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:55:56 GMT

It will be well worth the two minutes it requires to read this. It is quite impressive.

You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Independent or Libertarian and I bet this will hit a nerve.

This gentleman is obviously quite smarter than the two senators he sent it to. All I can say is amen to everything he said. A very articulate letter sent to the two U.S. Senators from Washington State.

___________________________________

April 3, 2013

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

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. 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

3096 Angela Lane

Oak Harbor , WA 98277

=

... [ More ]