An open letter to Congress & the White House…
Why are you ruining our country?
I grew up as a child of the 1950s when our
collective governments pretty much left citizens alone. Taxes were reasonable and didn’t require
computerized software or CPAs and most states and cities did not dip into our
wallets.
During the past few generations,
government has become a behemoth, smothering citizens with red tape and
overregulation – often created by unelected bureaucrats without benefit of
legislation! In many areas a citizen
cannot even build a dog house without government permission and fees. We have more rules and regulations than we
need and it is choking entrepreneurship and as a result, job growth.
Back then corporations
bore the lion’s share of taxes. They are
no longer good corporate citizens and since the 1980s they off-shored US jobs
and cut benefits to the bone. I made
more money in the 80s than most companies pay today. The majority of middle class jobs with
benefits are government jobs and the taxpayer supports these jobs despite not
being able to enjoy the same benefits.
Americans are finding
freedom of choice a vanishing option today as virtually every element of our
lives are dictated by law…everything from how much water our toilet uses to our
ineffective public school system where despite huge injections of tax dollars
over the past 20 years, fewer children today can spell or have a working
knowledge of our history.
Since passage of the
so-called Patriot Act [perhaps the most obnoxious set of laws ever forced onto
what was once a free people] we have seen our ability to travel freely
diminished through checkpoints and passport requirements…the entire country got
screwed because of 11 terrorists and it has created a monstrously TSA system
which has never caught a single terrorist.
Great return on our investment.
Further, our right to
privacy has been eliminated through this act and the mandatory use of a
socialist slave number, oh, I mean social security number which has done more
to boost white collar crime in terms of identity theft than anything else…thank
you very much!
Our entire financial house
of cards nearly crashed in 2009 and taxpayers once again were tapped to bail
out all your Wall Street buddies, yet no one is serving time in jail for these
crimes.
The average American
hasn’t had a real raise since 1972, yet inflation has eliminated 40% or more of
spending power since 2005.
Career politicians seem
more a scourge to our nation than benefit.
I always laugh at how Mrs. Clinton snookered New Yorkers into ‘adopting’
her so she could continue her feeding at the public trough as a senator. Frankly, most Americans I know of are TIRED
of political families like the Clinton’s, the Bush’s, the Kennedy’s and so on
who have dominated our system over the years.
Congress has done such a
wonderful job managing our nation’s finances that they give themselves an
automatic raise each year while maintaining gold plated benefits and perks that
the rest of the nation could only dream about – NO wonder all of you work so
hard on staying in one office or another.
From our President to most
members of Congress, FEW have ever served a day in the military or have created
jobs and been responsible for a payroll…many have never even held a job in
their adult lives but sanctimoniously call their careers ‘public service.’ Few have provided any real service to
citizens as they’re usually too busy rounding up cash donors so they may
continue to feed at the public trough.
If it were possible to
bring back our founding fathers, they would be screaming at us to get off our
lazy butts and start another revolution…but as we all know, most people don’t
have a clue why we had a revolution as everything the King had in place, our
own government does now.
Hell, with the NSA, TSA,
DHS, etc. in place our nation more closely resembles the old Soviet Union. Have you checked out the Planks of the
Communist Manifesto recently?
We have too much
government, too many laws and too many government employees. Here are a couple of suggestions:
·
If you’ve been in
government since the internet was created, please retire.
·
For every new law
you create, get rid of two
·
Get rid of the
Patriot Act – it has done zero to promote freedom
I know I speak for many
when I say we’re tired of imperious, arrogant attitude the political elite
display toward our populace…stop interfering with our freedom or we’ll be
forced to storm the bastille!
WE ARE ALL GETTING MAD AS HELL AND WILL NOT TAKE IT MUCH LONGER!
