This Letter Written By A 79 Year Old Cancer Ridden Veteran, Who Wrote A Very Civil And Truthful Letter To His Two US Senators. It Should Go Viral, As That’s The Only Way Any Of Our Corrupted Politicians Will See It And Take A Minute To Think Of What They’re Doing To Destroy The Country They’ve Taken So Much From. Maybe They Think All The Riches They’ve Been Able To Accumulated During Their Lifetime Will Last Members Of Their Family Once They’re Gone, But If That’s How They’re Thinking, They’re Wrong Again,. The Government They’ve Built, Will Take It All, And Their Lives Will Have Been Lived In Vain. Read The Letter, It Will Only Take A Couple Of Minutes, Then Pass It On. rc 

April 3, 2013                                                                                         Senator Patty  Murra                                                                           Senator Maria Cantwell                                                             Washington, DC , 20510

Dear Senators:

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