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You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Independent . or Libertarian and I bet this will hit a nerve. Our country is in real trouble.
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
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
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