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Title: Awesome Letter That A Dying Military Veteran Sent To His Representatives In Congress
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Published: Sep 11, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-09-11 15:23:37 by Horse
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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 Pretty incredible, eh? Mr. Schoonover may not get to live through the horror that the full implementation of Obamacare will bring, but most of the rest of us will get to experience it. As CNSNews.com recently noted, the federal regulations governing Obamacare are already more than 8 times longer than the entire Gutenberg Bible. We are heading toward an unprecedented bureaucratic nightmare… Since March 2010, when President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and its companion Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), the administration has published in the Federal Register 109 final regulations governing how Obamacare will be implemented. These regulations add up to 10,516 pages in the Federal Register—or more than eight times as many pages as there are in the Gutenberg Bible, which has 642 two-sided leaves or 1,286 pages. And health insurance premiums are already starting to go through the roof at the same time that many Americans are having their hours cut back at work as a result of Obamacare. We are seeing a fundamental transformation of the workforce, and it is all thanks to Obama. Billionaire Mort Zuckerman made the following statement on the McLaughlin Group this past weekend… “Part-time employment is going to grow from 25 percent of the workforce to close to 50 percent of the workforce in part because of the problems of healthcare obligations.” Can you survive on a part-time income? In the years ahead you might have to. And of course the Republicans are doing nothing to stop the implementation of Obamacare even though they have had opportunity after opportunity… “When the Democrats passed Obamacare, every single Republican in the House and the Senate voted against it. Every single Republican in the House and Senate vowed to do something about it,” said L. Brent Bozell III, the chairman of ForAmerica.org. He noted that Republicans took control of the House in 2010 by campaigning against Obamacare. “Sean, the problem is, they have done nothing about it,” Bozell told Sean Hannity Monday night. And while Republican lawmakers talk about all the things they have done to defund and repeal Obamacare, “they have done nothing of substance,” Bozell said. Our politicians don’t want any part of Obamacare themselves, but they are more than happy to force it on the rest of us. The video posted below is less than 2 minutes long, but I think that it is one of the best videos about Obamacare that I have seen. I think that you will agree that it is extremely funny…
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
very good...
Bill Schoonover makes some great points. The only solution at this point is to herd them all out into a field and shoot them.
#2. To: Horse (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Horse (#0)
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. Excellent letter. First lesson is that olde politicians never fade away, they have to be dragged away by the grim reaper. Case in point, one Ron Paul. Olde Ron rode into office on the term limits wave years ago, a physician with a good job, not much loot in the bank. Now he is out, voluntarily, but what is interesting is the rest of the story. Ron now has an excellent retirement, best of health care at little cost and millions in the bank. Is Ron satisfied and finished with politics??? Heavens no, he has a new operation going that is even more lucrative and without anyone peeking into his finances. As for the national debt, Rand Paul says that is because of big labor, so we need to eradicate those people and all will be well again. Olde term limits Ron stayed for twenty two years, one has to love a man willing to compromise his principles. 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.
#4. To: X-15 (#2)
I have lots of ammo to donate ... heck, I'll even pitch in and help ! The only solution at this point is to herd them all out into a field and shoot them.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Bastiat
#5. To: Cynicom (#3)
"ALL FEDS ARE BAD / COMPROMISED." Olde term limits Ron stayed for twenty two years, one has to love a man willing to compromise his principles.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Bastiat
#6. To: noone222 (#5)
Washington, Jefferson and Madison all issued stern warnings as to why we needed term limits, they were overruled. Our government is the biggest ongoing con game ever foisted upon a people.
#7. To: Cynicom (#6) (Edited)
My contention is that we have a bank that acts in some respects like a government. (Otherwise, why would we utilize internal bank receipts as cash ? Our government requires gold and silver coin according to its constitution. I'm still trying to figure out what this "other thing" that passes for government really is ... thusfar it appears to be a bank. Our government is the biggest ongoing con game ever foisted upon a people.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Bastiat
#8. To: Cynicom, abraxas (#3)
Case in point, one Ron Paul. Ron Paul DID NOT hang on until the Grim Reaper yanked him down to hell, Ted Kennedy and Robert "KKK" Byrd DID. Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter hung on (with cancer, no less) until he was voted out, not because he resigned. Ron Paul has more integrity than those other three jackasses I mentioned ever had. First lesson is that olde politicians never fade away, they have to be dragged away by the grim reaper.
-Alex Kurtagic
#9. To: X-15 (#8)
Had we hand-counted, paper ballots, at the precinct level, RP might very well be the current potus. The smirking chimp's Help America Vote Act only insured the status quo for ever and ever.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#10. To: X-15, Lod (#8)
I think I noted that olde Ron went into an even more lucrative enterprise, one that is an adjunct to politics. This way he can stay at home and run his own private internet ATM machine. Olde Ron sent me a note today saying he has lined up 60,000 people that are sending cash. What a cash cow he has going. I joined as I. Been. Snookered. Me an olde Ron are olde buds now. Ron Paul DID NOT hang on until the Grim Reaper yanked him down to hell,
#11. To: X-15, Cynicom, abraxas (#8)
had the house and senate been a simple majority of Ron Pauls his first term and continued as such we would not be where we are today and he Ron Paul would have honored his word of term limits but they were not so he kept up the good fight. Ron Paul DID NOT hang on until the Grim Reaper yanked him down to hell, Ted Kennedy and Robert "KKK" Byrd DID. Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter hung on (with cancer, no less) until he was voted out, not because he resigned. Ron Paul has more integrity than those other three jackasses I mentioned ever had.
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#12. To: IRTorqued (#11)
His financial statements agree with that. Olde Ron left Washington a multi millionaire. honored his word of term limits but they were not so he kept up the good fight.
#13. To: Lod (#9)
the constitutions of most of the various states require that all votes be counted in public, Texas being one of those various states, however, now, all votes in the various states are counted in secret whether they be cast electronically or in the form of paper ballots.
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#14. To: Cynicom (#12)
if you are going to quote me, quote me in whole.
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#15. To: noone222 (#7)
Con-sti-muh-what? Our government requires gold and silver coin according to its constitution.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#16. To: IRTorqued (#14)
I had forgotten this, olde Ron DID NOT participate in the federal pension plan. Of course leaving town a millionaire sort of negates poverty. I did notice he was taken to task for flying first class for years on the tax payers dime when he could have gone steerage like the rest of us, at half price.
#17. To: Cynicom (#16)
Of course leaving town a millionaire sort of negates poverty. Under investigation, Dr. Paul used his frequent flyer miles for an upgrade to first class. But, don't let that stop your lies about Ron Paul. When I met him, he was wearing JC Penny suit and shoes.......guess he didn't get the memo on MILLIONAIRE attire. Still, how absolutely wretched and horrid that the man acquired his OWN RETIREMENT monies after not stealing it from tax payers. Sheesh, the guy should really be hung and quartered for making investments, purchasing property, buying gold and silver. I mean really, the nerve of this OBGYN..how dare he put away any sort of nest egg for retirement!!! I did notice he was taken to task for flying first class for years on the tax payers dime when he could have gone steerage like the rest of us, at half price.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#18. To: Esso (#15)
LOL....con-sti-pa-tion? Con-sti-muh-what?
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#19. To: X-15, Cynicon (#8)
Yeah, but Ron Paul dared to make enough money while working and never voting for a tax increase or an unbalanced budget to purchase his own retirement. How dare he do that? Cyni prefers Byrd, Kennedy, & Spector who sucked hard on that goobermint teat, padded their wallets off wars for years on end, voted continually to raise taxes on the serfs while voting on Cadillac plans for them.....all of which Ron Paul voted against for his ENTIRE CAREER. But no, such principle as NEVER voting for a tax increase or personal benefits for representatives is worthy only of continual degradation and debasement because one time Cyni sent in a donation and for that donation Ron Paul didn't walk on water. Ron Paul DID NOT hang on until the Grim Reaper yanked him down to hell, Ted Kennedy and Robert "KKK" Byrd DID. Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter hung on (with cancer, no less) until he was voted out, not because he resigned. Ron Paul has more integrity than those other three jackasses I mentioned ever had.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#20. To: abraxas, Cynicom (#19)
The man is to be commended for his career-long consistency. But no, such principle as NEVER voting for a tax increase or personal benefits for representatives...
-Alex Kurtagic
#21. To: X-15, Cynicom (#20)
He didn't walk on water and he didn't say every thing that Cyni wanted said in the way that he wanted it to be said. For this, the man must be tarred and feathered. The man made more people understand and appreciate the Constitution than any politician in the past 100 years. For this alone, he deserves endless appreciation. But nooooooooooooooooooooo...turn a blind eye to the good this man did for this nation. Single him out for public execution, undermine his principles and values continually, while every other Senator and Representative gets a free pass for pissing on our Constitution and destroying this nation. Ron Paul's record and legacy went right out the window circa 2008 when Cyni made a political donation and didn't get the return he desired on his investment. Oh, if only he had sent the funds to Lindsey Graham or Juan McAmnesty for more war, immigration, and taxes....then he could be well pleased with his investment. The man is to be commended for his career-long consistency.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#22. To: abraxas, Cynicom (#21)
If sticking one's finger in the all-seeing eye of the Federal Reserve doesn't convince anybody of Ron Paul's bonafides, then nothing will:
-Alex Kurtagic
#23. To: IRTorqued (#11)
Well stated. Looking at the record, it is Dr. Paul standing alone on principle time and time again. He is the only representative that lobbyists don't even bother knocking on his door while the other whores pull out the welcome mat and a cocktail to discuss the daily bribe. had the house and senate been a simple majority of Ron Pauls his first term and continued as such we would not be where we are today and he Ron Paul would have honored his word of term limits but they were not so he kept up the good fight.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#24. To: Horse (#0)
That was a great letter. Good thing he made it widely available instead of just sending it to congresscritters and "sinators" whose staff would have promptly found it a home in the round file.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#25. To: abraxas, X-15, IRTorqued, James Deffenbach, Lod, Jethro Tull (#21)
The reason for the vitriol - I rest my case: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiLhe5-tmOQ "Ron Paul Calls Unions unconstitutional" www.ronpaul.com/2012-12-1...siness-labor-and-liberty/ "Ron Paul: “Right to Work” Is Good for Business, Labor and Liberty"
#26. To: scrapper2 (#25)
I was always glad when Ron ran so I could have a real choice, a choice for good, rather than trying to choose the "lesser of two evils" which I don't do. A vote for evil in any amount is still a vote for evil and I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and not be ashamed.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#27. To: scrapper2 (#25)
Well, I can only speak from experience. Back in the 1930s, there were 19,000,000 men unemployed. A man could be hired for a dollar a day. Four children could be hired for the same dollar. Work we did, sun up to sun down, twenty five cents a day. There was an added "fringe benefit", we received a free dinner. We were the social dregs of society, human lice as Ayn Rand called us, with barely a right to life. Henry Ford, the great industrialist, had some of the lice shot and killed, no one cared. There were other hungry people willing to replace them. Then our elite involved us in a world war, took away 16,000,000 men to bleed and die, for what? We were told to be patriotic, support the war effort, go fight without complaint. Henry Ford switched to building airplanes and became rich beyond belief. The lice were bleeding and dying for 25 dollars a month, as "patriotic soldiers". My brother still lies somewhere in the soil of Germany. How foolish we were, expecting to have any rights as humans. "Ron Paul Calls Unions unconstitutional"
#28. To: scrapper2 (#25)
Ron Paul made his case: Texas has weathered this recession better than any other state, the effects were minimal compared to other states, especially the housing market.
-Alex Kurtagic
#29. To: Cynicom (#27)
You need to time travel to the present day, Cynicom. There was a need for unions in the early part of the 20th century. But over time unions have become too powerful and corrupt and frankly too dangerous, what with their unsavory meddling in America's political process. IMHO, unions today are as dangerous to America's future survival as are the war mongers of AIPAC and the military defense industry. The main sector of the US economy showing a healthy upswing these days is in Silicon Valley - the high tech industry - which has little to no union involvement. Sectors with heavy unionization which include government employment are stagnant or out and out failing. Union demands and contracts have become unsustainable. For example, why should a public librarian in San Diego have a "defined" retirement pension of $225,000+ annually, paid for by the taxpayers with continual increases in taxes, who are treading water ( if they are lucky) in this recession, to hold onto their jobs so they can put some $ into their private 401 K pension plans, while paying their mortgage and saving for college eds for their children? It's an absurd situation. You can continue to hate Ford and Ayn Rand as much as you want. But to blame Ron Paul for the ills of society many generations ago is silly. Ron Paul believes in the US Constitution. He shouldn't be faulted for that. Ron Paul's viewpoint is admirable. He was not born at the turn of the century. He might have seen the need for unions at the time you describe, if he were your peer. Or perhaps even then, he wouldn't. Ron Paul is a Constitutionalist, through and through. He doesn't see people as lice. He is not Ford or Ayn Rand. I think you need to get over your displacing your hatred for the likes of Ford and Rand on Ron Paul. He worries that the farther our nation strays from the US Constitution, the greater likelihood our nation will collapse. I think he is right. It offends some of us who admire Ron Paul's position to have you direct unwarranted vitriol at him at every opportunity you see to sneak in some way of knocking him down. Frankly you come across as being a spiteful and narrow minded crank, which you are not on other issues.
#30. To: scrapper2 (#29)
But over time unions have become too powerful and corrupt and frankly too dangerous, what with their unsavory meddling in America's political process. IMHO, unions today are as dangerous to America's future survival as are the war mongers of AIPAC and the military defense industry. Scrap - this sounds like a description of our .gov! Time for a reboot of our entire system. There was a need for unions in the early part of the 20th century.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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