I intend to
make you aware of my concerns for the 2012 elections. Please read this carefully and be aware that
it is applicable to all members of the House and the Senate.
I voted in
2008 and will vote in 2012. How I will vote
in November is largely dependent upon how you conducted yourselves since 2008.
Pay attention,
I have many friends who feel as I do.
You were
elected to represent the people of your district or state, not energy
companies, not insurance companies, not investment banks, not hedge fund
owners. I regard your acceptance of
gifts and campaign funds from corporations as graft and bribery. Campaign finance laws have been
introduced. Pass them in both chambers
and send them to the President, now.
Financial
regulations were enacted for a valid reason after the Great Depression. When the GOP/teavangelists stripped them away,
we learned again how greed and malfeasance could wreck a global economy. Put the regulations back and keep them in
effect. I don’t care if your campaign funds dry up, many of your constituents
have lost everything they worked for and their jobs thanks to Congress’ pandering
to big finance.
No one
elected Grover Norquist. He and his
pledge should become examples of political stupidity, found only in footnotes
of textbooks. He is powerless if you
refuse to allow him power. He is also willing
to wreck the remainder of our economy.
Ignore him, ignore his pledge, and send him home today.
Despite the
protestations of the GOP/teavangelists, government is not a business. Quit
trying to make it one. It is impossible
to have a government without taxes.
Taxes are the price of civilization.
Those people who think otherwise might benefit from a vacation in
Somalia.
There is no
war on Christianity. This is not and
should never be a “Christian nation.”
Those who insist otherwise are invited to vacation in Iran, Afghanistan,
or Pakistan. Those who want religion in
schools are invited to pay for parochial schools.
Healthcare, education,
and social safety networks are markers for civilization. Most Americans are willing to pay for those
items via taxation. We don’t want to
live in a 3rd world nation where such services and benefits are
unavailable. We need a single-payer
national health insurance with enrollment obligatory for all citizens. We need national education standards, not 50
separate curricula. One Mississippi is
one too many.
The EPA does
not “kill jobs”, it saves the lives of people endangered by corporate
greed. Science is not an alternate to
religion. It is reality expressed in
replicable formats and values.
Scientists do not fake results to retain grants, they are not
politicians.
You and your
fellow elected need to give up the idea of further vacation or other days
off. You, collectively, have done
nothing to merit vacation or increases in compensation. You owe a huge dept to the men and women who
elected you, not to the corporations, which now behave as if they own you.
You were not
elected to overturn the Presidential election.
The bigotry that drives the stated intention of Mr. Boehner and Mr.
McConnell, to wreck the Obama presidency despite the cost to the nation; does
not belong in the United States. So
please use the rest of 2012 to complete the job you promised to do. Let the President do his.
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