Tuesday, September 17, 2013

An open letter to the Senate and Congress of the United States of America

Ladies and Gentlemen of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate,

It is your duty to make decisions based on what is best for the People of these United States. You have failed. Your endless pandering to personal self interest and the interests of the corporations who have bought your votes must stop.
You are the largest Organization of Welfare Leeches in the country.
You have free medical care - excellent free medical care - yet you deny Americans access to even mediocre medical care at a reason price.
You have guaranteed retirement benefits, yet you constantly empower corporations to raid the retirement funds of the American people. You have allowed Social Security - which we pay for, out of our increasingly limited paychecks - to be used to finance everything except our retirements, and now you are intent on cutting our returns on our own investments in Social Security by claiming it is an entitlement we don't deserve. We OWN it. It's OUR money. Give it back.
You add reprehensible projects onto the tail end of programs that are desperately needed as a method of funneling money to your own districts without caring whether the projects you fund have any reasonable basis in need or usefulness.
You vote against assistance for the victims of one national disaster, then vote for assistance for your own neighborhood. Many of you voted against assistance for victims of Sandy and then asked for assistance for much lesser disasters. You lack the decency to even be ashamed of your self-serving greed.
You refuse to establish decent gun control measures, then whine for help when some nutter you enabled opens fire on your constituents. You don't care that 91% of the American public demanded that decent gun control measures be enacted, because your owners, the NRA said vote against it.
You don't care that our water supply is being contaminated, because your owners in the Oil and Gas industries tell you climate change is bogus.
One assumes that the college degrees you're all so proud of indicate intelligence, but quite frankly, your obvious inability to grasp basic facts indicates that those degrees are just one more thing you bought rather than earned.
Your utter refusal to look at the long range impact of your behavior is stupefying. You are poisoning your own children, your own grandchildren. You are destroying your own country for the immediate gratification of dollars into your campaign funds and the abuse of power sitting in that nice, upholstered chair allows you.
While some of you are actually trying to improve the terrible situation this country is now in, many of you are too busy conducting power plays to even understand that it is You, personally, I am addressing. If you are sitting there thinking I'm talking to someone else, you are Wrong.
I'm talking to YOU.
Do you even know who your employers are? You are employed by the American People and you need to start doing as the American People Dictate, not as the PACS and Lobbyists bribe you to do.
We've had enough.
This is your notice, Congress, Senate. Do your damned jobs or get out of the way. Go sit on your obstructionist asses at home, where you will continue to collect your ridiculous retirement that you've done nothing to earn. We have a country that needs honest, caring leaders and you have proven that you are not that.