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Open letter to the President
Dear Mr. President,
I am a regular American. I am a veteran. I dropped medical school and joined the Marine Corps but was one of the fortunate Marines that didn’t get shipped off to Vietnam. They chose my brother instead of me. I have been bothered by that for all these years, but have come to the conclusion that every slot must be filled and every task is needed to make the military work, and though I lost several friends in this military debacle, it is what it is and I am lucky.
When I returned to civilian life I got married, had kids, but never finished my schooling to become a doctor. Instead I crafted out a business life that covered many bases, and was blessed that hard work and opportunity’s paths crossed. Some call that luck, those who didn’t work as hard as I did would call that “privileged” (in this day of class warfare). You would be hard-pressed to find anyone more middle class than yours truly. Whatever you want to call it, my wife and I were able to retire by age 53 but shortly thereafter she lost her long battle with cancer.
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My brief medical background was finally utilized in retirement following the loss of my wife. I started a small cancer foundation and began providing new cancer technology research information to doctors and patients (there are ten’s of thousands of treatment protocols in this country making it the health care leader in the world), to help children with cancer find the right treatment. I worked to open a new cancer screening center in Romania, helped develop a pediatric cancer rehab center in the Republic of Moldova, and along the way, contributed time and money to over 100 humanitarian aid and disaster relief global projects. My book on cancer has helped many people win their battle, but the work is not done…and sir, you are not making it any easier.
Over the last ten years, you and the preceding administration nearly destroyed this great country and have taken us to brink of bankruptcy. Rather than feeling sorry for the US, take a look around at what our government policies have done to the world in just one decade. Today we are involved in three endless military conflicts. You can make yourself feel better by calling it 2 wars and a “non-war” in Libya where we are only spending a billion dollars a week not participating on the ground.
But that wasn’t enough. You had to create a fourth war here at home called “class warfare”, turning those who are unemployed due to the financial crisis imposed upon America by decades of Washington’s intrusion into the free market economy, and lack of oversight of Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, and those Wall Street whores who so lavishly pad your election (and now re-election) coffers with money. Hell man, you even tried to blame the unending bribery/donations of Wall Street onto those hapless Republicans when the majority of Wall Street largess went to Democrats. Have you no shame?
Our economic system of regulated capitalism has worked well for 2-1/2 centuries, making the United States the most productive nation on earth; where people are willing to wait in line for the opportunity to come here because it is a chance for them to capture a dream for their families. Others die trying to get here while still others sneak in illegally across our borders. You sir, turn a blind eye. You have not one ounce of experience in free-market economics and yet you were somehow able to flim-flam an electorate into believing you were the “savior” from a previous administration run amok, taken the helm of this great country and are running us off the cliff.
You and the previous 3-4 administrations have broken the spirit of nearly 50% of the US population by convincing them that only government can provide the solution to achieving success. That’s crap and you know it. When have government handouts ever created wealth and prosperity? Instead you and your continued government policies, dating back to President Lyndon Johnson, continue the roller coaster ride spending what, $7-8 trillion dollars, to improve the plight of those who dropped out of school, smoked dope, did drugs, ran away from home, ran on the wrong side of the law, or were just mindless fools looking for a free-ride. How much wealth have your policies created for them?
And where are we forty plus years later? 47% of those with a high school diploma are illiterate in Detroit (thank you Department of Education – average expenditure per student, $18,000/year, the highest in the world); Nearly 80% of single parent, African –America families live in poverty (one of the very groups government programs were supposed to help…it was only about half that back in the Sixties, by the way). The list of failures is too long to list here, but European style government social-engineering programs as who you folks in Washington are trying to impose on us, have absolutely failed at every turn. And now you want to take over heath care, school loans, private sector banks, and some of those in Washington even want to cut earned benefits, to the very military that has given America freedom to be the world economic leader…you folks are unbelievable!
Mr. President, the handwriting is on the wall. Look at how our fiscal policies are effecting the rest of the world. I have a feeling the 500 point drop in the stock market yesterday won’t be enough for you guys yet. Haven’t you listened to the warnings from Western Europe that their excessive unemployment rates, social welfare, cradle-to-grave care, is driving them to bankruptcy. Hasn’t Iceland and Greece’s financial collapses been examples enough that Keynesian economics flat doesn’t work? Are you blind or is it just plain stupidity?
I cannot speak for all those who have worn the uniform of the US military, but they have made all our nation’s successes possible. When the threat of the global bond rating agencies, hell from even China itself for that matter, tell you that you are on the wrong track, your only response is to increase the debt limit and make a few cuts in “non essential” budget items. You then try to scare older Americans, veterans, and anyone else that you can intimidate into bending over for more of your wasteful bureaucracy and programs, when you should be looking seriously at the policies of the last several of decades and in particular, the last 6 years that have run us into the ditch. And believe me, the earned benefits of veterans, the benefits owed to the Social Security recipients, and those in real need of Medicare and Medicaid are not the root-cause of your dilemma.
You’ve stolen the “lock-box” funds from Social Security so that road is closed, and even this past year Geithner has been “borrowing” from government pension funds all the while saying “trust us”, the government retirement program won’t be affected….right, just as no harm was meant when stealing our Social Security. We all know that the government thought we’d live maybe 15 years after we retired and never dream we’d reach to the ripe old age of 85, so maybe for those 40 and younger we have to increase the retirement age to 68-70, but when you start throwing veterans under the bus, and wanting to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits for the older folks, it appears you want to start a riot right here in America.
Over the weekend I will outline the problems your policies have created on the rest of the world for Monday’s column. I know that Washington’s concern for we Americans will be waiting breathlessly until then, because after all…you are the government and you’re here to help.
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Plain Good Country Advice, Circa mid !930′s
When some sumbitch knocks on your door and tells you he is from the gummint and he is here to help you, grab down the shotgun from above the mantle and run the sumbitch off’n your propity!
Some things just never change!
Earlaiman
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher who’s hand had been caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our President.
The old rancher said, ‘Well, ya know, Obama is a “Post Turtle”.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a “post turtle” was.
The old rancher said, ‘When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a “post turtle”.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain.
“You know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with”.
Earlaiman,
I guess when they get us down, some of us can still muster a sense of humor. My heart goes out to everyone who is stuck facing another weekend on the unemployment roles while the celebrity crowds lament the passing of singer 27 year old Amy Whitehouse from a possible drug related death and while President Obama partied on his 50th birthday with his wealthy political pals at whopping $35,800/ticket in the heart of Chicago where the latest Census data shows the poverty rate hovering around 21 percent and the national rate at 14.3 percent.
I don’t know, but this kind of sounds like Nero fiddling while Rome burns, or Marie Antoinette’s notable quote, “Let them eat cake” during the French Revolution. Those who have $35K to spend on a birthday party to buy Presidential “access” are the same folks who stir-up the lynch-mob mentality on the hard working self-employed family man trying to make a living and providing the jobs that power America. Go figure.
And so it goes according to Walter Cronkite. i hope i spelled this name right ? we will never get rid of all the friggen Ass – Holes in our Government. I have been saying America wake up ????? forget about voting all the scum bags out. it will not happen. people have to get togeather, organize. and go to Washington D.C. find all these BASTARDS arrest them. kick them all in their ASS. and put them all in JAIL’S were they belong. then WATERBOARD them all.(((( and last but not least take beck every thing they STOLE from all Americans.)))) Give back all the MONEY they stole to all Americans.
They stole it and so much more from countless more folks than just Americans. What we owe to the nations our military cult of death has destroyed is beyond measure and quite likely beyond any monetary value.
I think that I have uncover the problem with this country. Listen to anky politician and hili will hear them blaming congress fir the wes of the nation. Consider one important element in this statement, each and everyone that says this is talking about themselves. Congress mis a concept represented ,by those elected by the people. Any person who blames himself for the failure of government needs to step down and allow someone else who is willing to take responsibility for the decisions of all of congress. Enough of blaming someone for your failures and of course this attitude comes from the top. Any lawmaker who agrees with this thinking is no better than the one denying the facts.
Until recently the media pundits,congresscritters and the wall St. elite were calling Ron Paul crazy and laughed at his ideas….well, they’re not laughing anymore.
Ron Paul as well as others such as Paul Craig Roberts,Gerald Celente have been trying to warn people of the impending economic collapse and nobody is listening…that is until now.
What’s going to happen come Monday morning now that S&P has downgraded America’s rating to AA+?
I tell you, the handwriting is on the wall and if you ain’t readin’ it you might just as well go bury your head in the sand. We’re approaching the end of the rope…..better tie a knot in it and hang on!
I have no idea what it’s going to do to the company I work for. Right now I’m on layoff for possibly until October…..by then who knows what’s going to go down by then?
I guess I’ll just kiss my 401K goodbye, but I won’t be the only one on the Titanic.
Good grief Charlie Brown!
He is not aggressive and I write to him also all th time to start kicking asses. But, looking back he is the first
intelligent president since JFK. His problem is keep hoping people are good all of them keep telling him there’s evil in the world even in the USA but keeps trying. There are lots of good people in this country but have no choice who to believe. When Ain Rand wrote that book it was interesting to observe how many grabbed her reason to be SOB and get promoted and paid well for it. Starting with Congress we are now in the ranks of the most corrupt nations. The Evangelists even changed the Bible to bless you for your evil deeds. How rotten can you get.
Mon Dieu, the much maligned & misquoted Marie. It was “have they not cake”, reasonable question as french monarchy gave yearly stipend to grain millers on behalf of the poor. French riots began when millers @ behest of revolution leaders w/held flour already paid for. US woes didnt start w/Johnson. They began in 1913 w/Fed Reserve, seizing control of money issue, charging interest, flooding $$ thru roaring 20s, crashing it all & carving US onto tombstone w/seizure of gold & socialism implementation in 1933.
Actually no Mary, they began under the traitor Lincoln when he reseated Congress illegally after it had recessed “sine de” (without legitimate Constitutional schedule for reconvening) due to the walk out of the Southern States’ Representatives/Senators. What Lincoln reconvened was done so under a fraudulent corporate charter masquerading in majority part as the de jure Constitution of these united States but with cleverly scripted “legal” terminology and grammatical structure that meant something wholly different than the plain Common Law language of the organic original.
That coupled with the State of Emergency also declared by dishonest Abe (which to this very day has never been rescinded) began the process of the “departmentalization” of the former Sovereign States into the “political subdivisions” of Corp USA launched under the fraudulently worded “charter” we were all raised to believe is the document of our founding.
1913 was only made possible because of the seminal abuses of office by Lincoln and the behind the scenes connivance of the Rothschild agent scumbag from Texas, Thomas William House, who not incidentally sired Edward M. House who would later be instrumental in establishing the Federal Reserve System for his Rothschild paymasters.
$35K per? That should have been directed to the debt.