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Steve posted: "This is just so awesome. What a Man. Don't make them like
that anymore. This is well written! It will be well worth the two minutes
it requires to read this. It is quite impressive. You can be Republican,
Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, In" Respond to this post by replying
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<http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/stungunsandmace/> A Dying Senior
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Steve <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/stungunsandmace/>
This is just so awesome. What a Man. Don't make them like that anymore.
*This is well written!*
*It will be well worth the two minutes it requires to read this. It is
quite impressive.*
*You can be Republican, Democrat <http://www.democrats.org/>, 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<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8905555556,-77.0088888889%20(United%20States%20Senate)&t=h>from
Washington State
*.
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April 3, 2013
Senator Patty Murray <http://www.murray.senate.gov/>
Senator Maria Cantwell <http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/>
Washington, DC , 20510
Dear Senator:
I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Command
Sergeant Major <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_major>, U.S.
Army<http://www.army.mil/>,
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<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8888888889,-77.0088888889&spn=0.01,0.01&q=38.8888888889,-77.0088888889%20(United%20States%20House%20of%20Representatives)&t=h>and
Senate have become
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answer to the Saudi
royal family <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud>. 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act>,"
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 Democratic 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 online 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*
~Steve~ H/T Jean
*I verified it thru snopes. Yea I know. LOL
*
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoonover.asp
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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…
So what do you think about all of this?
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/09/cgis-lymerick-awesome-letter-that-dying.html
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