Sad but true
Life isn't about
weathering the storms, but how to dance in the rain.
"A dying senior citizen tells it like it
is---"
This
should be read by every U.S.voter! ....( AND
EVERY POLITICIAN AND NEWS MEDIUM FOR WHOM WE CAN DIG UP AN E-MAIL ADDRESS)
!!
"Viral" should be an understatement
when passing on this incredibly important letter to his U.S. Senator from a
dying 79 year old American in Oak Harbor , Wa .
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 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 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.
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.
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 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,(signed into law by GWB) 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
--
God
Have Mercy On and
Save America
