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• Joanne Filiatreau

  08/27/2009 10:32 AM

  Dear Congressmen,
  I come to you today to ask that you save our country.
  
  Consider Tort Reform over a Government Health care plan.
  
  Consider fixing Medicare over spending the funds we have paid into it during our working years that you now spend on individuals that have not contributed a single dime. Stop raping our just rewards on lazy persons quite capable of working, yet choosing to stay on welfare.
  
  Consider putting yourself on Medicare rather than on a lifetime of the same salary you retired at and would continue to receive raises in years after your employment that you are taking away from the tax paying citizens that are on Medicare and living on their Social Security.
  
  Consider enacting a law that would put a limit on your service to 2 terms.
  
  Consider vetting our Presidents Czars with a FBI investigation.
  
  Consider doing the same of our President, as you did John McCain and Hillary Clinton. You left no stone unturned when questioning them.
  
  It is time you return our country to a safe place in which to raise our children and grandchildren.
  
  

• Stuart M. Blessing

  08/24/2009 06:34 PM

  The Greatness of the United States of America, Gone
  The greatness of the United Stats of America has always been because of the faith, hard work and the determination of our individual citizens. We did not grow from 13 tiny colonies, to the greatest most powerful nation on earth because of the power and provision of the federal government. Quite the opposite, it was because for the first time in world history, individuals were given the opportunity to directly benefit from their labor. Using the freedoms that come from our inalienable rights, given by our Creator, we built one nation under God, one family at a time. When mothers and fathers are responsible for their children’s upbringing, education and day to day welfare, the children learn personal responsibility and benefit from the best their parents have to offer. For generation after generation, the quality of life improved and individual wealth grew, because children benefited from their parents labor and love, then passed on the benefits to their children. This process worked without governmental intrusion for about 150 years. The Bill of Rights specifically lists freedoms and activities of the individual citizen where the Federal Government cannot interfere, control or limit. Individual citizens understood the Bill of Rights was in place to limit the Governments roll in their daily lives. Because the people of the United States were no longer under an oppressive Monarchy who over-taxed them and used Royal Blood Lines to hold them back, our forefathers accomplished more in 150 years than any other country in the pervious 2,000 years. And life was good…….
  Back during the beginning of the 20th century a new philosophy started to spread throughout the modern world. This new philosophy was based on a utopian idea of equality and mutual benefit from labor. Instead of recognizing that our rights came from our Creator for individual benefit, this philosophy uses central authority to spread out the benefits from labor equally. Basically this forces those who produce more to subsidize those who produce less, under the guise of fairness. Eventually the people propagating this new philosophy broke into two camps, Communism and Socialism. The main difference as I see it today is, Communism took control and ownership of everything; Socialism allows for privet ownership but controls the owner and sets the rules they must operate under. Communism took root in the former Soviet Union, China, North Korea and Cuba. Socialism took root throughout Europe and Great Britain. The strength of our uniquely American system and individuality, inoculated us from a case of full blown Communism or Socialism infecting our country. Unfortunately like a chronic ache or lingering virus, Liberalism has been slowly weaving its way throughout our colleges and universities, our government run public school systems, our courts and finally the majority of our representative government.
  We find our selves today victims of our own sloth and generosity; we as a free people were not diligent to protect what we received as our birth right. Our birth right of freedom was won by the blood of our forefathers, the sweat and tears of generations that came after them and the unyielding American spirit of what we call “The Greatest Generation”. The rights they had came with responsibilities, the rights we have today do not. The freedoms they had came from God our Creator, the freedoms we have now come from our benevolent government. The pride of self and country they had came from hard work and trustworthy neighbors. What little pride we have today comes very often from others telling how well we did, even if we did not. Liberalism does not raise up the lowly, it strives to lower those of us who have climbed as high as our talent and effort would take us. You can spot the negative effects of liberalism throughout our society if you know what to look for. First look for situations were the government rewords people for not doing the right thing. Look for people who are being paid more not to work than what an entry level job would pay them to work. Look for young women who are being paid to do nothing but produce more babies raised without fathers in poverty. Look for students who are rewarded after failing so we do not hurt their feelings. Look for government services for perfectly healthy individuals. Liberals keep score by how many people they can put under government programs. If there are not enough people under government programs to satisfy them, they make more programs to expand government control. They will continue to expand as long as there are enough people producing wealth to pay for the non-producers.
  Today we find ourselves faced with a dilemma second only to our Founding Fathers when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. The men who signed that document became instant traitors to the crown, and could be hanged on sight. Today if you oppose the government take over of healthcare, 1/6th of our economy, and oppose mandatory participation, you are not a true American. (according to Nancy Pelosi). Barney Frank wants to know what planet you spend most of your time on, and the rest of the liberal elites will call you a raciest, homophobe or worse. I shutter to think what they would call our Founding Fathers if they were here today and expressed their views about what is going on in this country.
  As for me I oppose liberalism, the government takeover of healthcare and the pervasive governmental intrusion to our daily lives. I oppose our current President who claims to be a citizen of the world and declares we are not a Christians. I believe we were founded as a Christian nation and that stands even today. I oppose all who want to restrict our freedom to worship God outside of the church walls. I oppose our elected officials who believe they know what is best for us and want to compel us to live our lives as they say. I will teach my children that abstinence is right before they are married and that homosexuality is immoral. I will teach them that killing children is wrong even if they have not been born yet. I will teach my children to be respectful to teachers who promote the lies about man- made global warming, but I will make sure my children know the truth. I will teach my children they are responsible for their lives, from the clothes they put on in the morning to the grades they get in school. They are responsible if they succeed or fail in their lives and not to surrender control of their life to anyone, least of all, the Federal Government.
  If the remnant of true Americans that remain, I mean people who believe in the principles our country was founded upon, do not stand up and oppose those who would destroy our inheritance, we will wake up one day and realize,
  The Greatness of the United States of America is Gone!
  By Stuart M. Blessing