I’ve Had Enough (thoughts from the Colonel)

I can no longer remain silent as the radical left rushes to destroy the freedoms and liberties that I have risked my life to defend, so many years. We can either be uninformed lambs wandering happily to the slaughter house or we can be informed citizens who will take the time to speak out. It is our right, our mandate…at least until they take that away from us too.

Contact your Senator – I did
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Dear Senator,

The tax payers of the great Commonwealth of Virginia, and America, were taken to the cleaners tonight with the irresponsible actions of the US Senate. The Constitution provides no enumerated powers to the Senate to take action like this. You have no authority or right to redistribute wealth from one to another. You have no authority or right to set the cap of any American worker. You have no authority or right to steal our money and give it to illegal aliens. We did not send you to Congress to spend our money on Frisbee golf courses. I can go on and on.

I, and hundreds like me, have had enough of irresponsible actions by our Government. Today, you participated in support of the single largest transfer of capital power from the private sector to the government in recorded history. You have participated in supporting an irresponsible action that has no chance to create meaningful jobs in America. You hide behind the disguise of tax relief when really your tax relief is nothing more than another spending program. The American people are smarter than that. Sir, with all due respect, taking money from a tax paying Americans and giving it to someone who contributes nothing is not a tax cut. That is a socialist spending program. We aren’t buying it. We aren’t supporting it either.

The Senate refused to take the advice of their own Congressional Budget office who’s analysis of this plan is that it will not stimulate the economy. Irresponsible and shameful. The Senate also refused to consider the 63%, and growing, dissatisfaction rating by the American people, who you work for, rushing instead towards socialist spending and appropriations pork with reckless abandon. The more we learn about what is in the plan, the more we are against it. We have had enough and insist that the Senate begin to act responsibly.

The Senate has pulled numbers out of the air for this plan and have failed to make any attempt at communicating a cogent explanation of this plan to their bosses, the American people. The Democratic Senator from Louisiana said as much tonight on television when asked point blank about how the numbers were crafted. Her clueless response was an embarrassment to the position. No Senator has been able to stand before a camera and speak competently to the American people about any facet of this plan and how it will work. Every talking head only hopes this might work and is only confident about one thing, that the end price tag for this nonsense will be exponentially higher than it is being talked about today. That does not instill confidence in the American people.

You have mortgaged the future of my son and his children with irresponsible thievery of our prosperity. That is absolutely unsatisfactory. I have never witnessed anything more irresponsible in my life. Something so important, so urgent, to be rammed down our throat with so little study and discussion is Un-patriotic and is not what our framers had in mind.

There is still time to do the right thing. You need to have the courage to call a Congressional time-out and allow this plan to be studied, analyzed by non-partisan experts. Then you need to bring the plan to you boss, the American people, in a clear and convincing way that gives us the confidence we deserve in the deliberations of their elected officials. We deserve it and you owe it to us. Do not rush to failure. Show us some leadership or we will find someone else to speak for us. Right now, you own this plan and we will hold you personally responsible for the inevitable economic demise this spending plan will have on our economic future.

Respectfully, yet fervently submitted.

A sworn defender of the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign, and domestic.

Gary West, Colonel, USAF, (R)

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