My letter to Republicans in congress

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I am sending this letter to Republican members of the Senate and the House.


To the Republican members of the Congress of the “United” States of America:

In the past several years this country and this Congress has allowed our nation to pursue a course of war, not peace. Funding for the national infrastructure and for the welfare of American citizens has been cut and cut in favor of war funding. Our tax dollars have been diverted to Iraq and into a “Transportation Bill” that was so loaded with pork that even the most zealous among you might be ashamed. You have refunded billions of our tax dollars to the richest in this country and never asked them to sacrifice for the common good.

Not since the Harding Administration has there been such unabashed greed and avarice, such a criminal rip-off of the American people. There has never in the history of the world been a government that took so much from the poor to give to the rich.

Now we are seeing the results of YOUR policies. Where did the money in the Homeland Security budget go? Where did the money in the Army Corp of Engineers budget go? I am tired of the “representatives of the people” hiding behind the platitude of “homeland security” in order to deny the citizens of the country the right to know how our tax dollars are being spent.

Even after your disastrous budget cuts to the New Orleans levee system and a total failure on the part of our Department of Homeland Security/FEMA/Army Corp of Engineers, you are still proposing elimination of the Estate Tax and Capital Gains Taxes and still insist on the Privatization of Social Security.

Your friend and colleague Grover Norquist stated “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub”. Well, you have succeeded in drowning it but, unfortunately, you have not cut the spending. You have run up the largest budget deficit in the history of the world. You have only spent it on those things that you believe benefited you and your friends personally.

My questions to you are:

DO YOU AGREE WITH MR. NORQUIST NOW?

HOW MUCH MONEY DO THESE “CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY” NEED?

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO CONVINCE YOU THAT WE NEED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO CARE FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US?

WILL YOU GO ON FIDDLING (and spending on bridges to nowhere) WHILE OUR NATION BURNS, OR IN THIS CASE BURNS AND DROWNS?

HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?


I remain angrily yours,