Missed another chance...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

President Obama,

Your rush to get the "stimulus" bill through the Congress has provided the American citizens and their grandchildren and ill-designed, ill-conceived and even devious path toward an over-stimulated governmental body and little else. You allowed the Congressional Sacred Cow of allowable "pork" spending to keep the same old, same old trickery. There's an amazing lack of integrity in Congress and I no longer feel that the representatives earn the titles of "honorable."

Your ballooning of the federal government is con game that outdoes anything your predecessor/s may have done to grow the Washington DC staff.

You had an opportunity to dazzle us with your education, your experts and your experience, yet you chose to obfuscate a cash crisis and make foolish home-owners into victims and deceitful congressmen into dupes.

Not that I need to say it, but yes, I am a Republican, and as disappointed as I have been with the Bush administration's part in growing the federal government, I am disgusted with your opportunistic, "let them suffer" attitude.

And once the American people (whites and blacks alike) have figured out that your plan is to keep us all dependent on hand-outs from Washington the country that you claim to appreciate will be decimated and its child-like serfs will come to hate what you had a chance to prevent.

Everyone I know exhorted me to give you a chance, to let you show that you would know what was good for America. I'm glad now that I didn't give in. It gives me no pleasure to have been right, though.

I rarely listen to Rush Limbaugh - a political pundit you're afraid of - yet I figured this out on my own, a high school educated officer worker who worked hard and was grateful for the opportunity to make as much as $38,000 a year. Pretty good money for someone of my education level, don't you think?

You see, I found this country (and all the states I've lived in) to be very appreciative of someone willing to work hard, not expecting something for nothing, and yet you would deny millions of the same opportunity to reach for success and have something to be proud of.

I don't hold out much hope for a change in your mind, but millions of others do. If I see the change in you, notice an appreciation of the kind of American that Benjamin Franklin became over time, I'll be the first to say that I'm glad you're the president.

Regards,

(name withheld here, but not in the original)