The following is a letter to two elected representatives that explains a lot about what is wrong with America written by

 Bill   Schoonover

 

 

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

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

3096   Angela   Lane

Oak   Harbor   ,   WA   98277