This is why you can't depend on man. Faith not laws get you to heaven!!!
Subject: A Dying Senior Citizen Tells It Like It Is
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For what its' worth, snopes verifies the letter.
A dying senior citizen tells it like it is...
This is well written! It will be well worth the two minutes it requires to
read this. 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.
Richard
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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 per centers,"
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
