Politics and Insights from History

February 5, 2010

Dear Mr. President,

I may be a little late in commenting on your State of the Union address, but it is filled to the brim with sewage that it would take days for any sane person to shovel their way through it. This speech differed little from the many you have given the past year. I often wonder when you will shut your mouth and actually start defending this country.

Instead of reporting on the State of the Union, people are more aware of it than you, and the 18 pages you spent selling your socialist agenda. It was the typical push for universal health care, cap and trade and a government takeover of energy production, another stimulus (the Jobs Bill), blame Bush, and more of your ego inflation. But there are a few points I want to address specifically.

You talk about the suffering of the people. You even throw in a few sob stories and supposed letter written to you just to prove that you understand our pain. You understand nothing. You insist that the economy downfall and our suffering is the result of the change you promised not coming quickly enough. And you blame Republicans for that. 1) The Republicans do not have a majority. Democrats do. Republicans couldn’t stop a bill from passing even if they all voted against it. It is people in your own party that has slowed down your ghoulish legisltaion. Blame them not the GOP. 2) You are either delusional or lying. I believe it is both. You truly believe that destroying America and turning it into a socialist country will make the country and the world a better place. You are also lying because you want the public to believe that our refusal to accept your regulations has furthered this economic slump. The reality is that the change you brought to Washington, your economic policies have prolonged the recession turning it into a depression. Your big government solutions took a problem and expanded it.

A second point I wish to make is that you are now attempting to rewrite history. You throw out a bunch of numbers and figures to prove that your stimulus bill actually saved the economy from total collapse. The numbers do not add up. There is no evidence that your spending spree saved the economy. There is evidence that it made the economy worse. Unemployment skyrocketed, businesses loss money, employers stopped hiring and began laying more people off, consumer spending dropped, banks stopped lending, and the stock market has yet to show any sign of recovery.

You mentioned tax cuts that you passed. Where are they? Tax rates are still the same and are due to increase when the Bush tax cuts expire later this year. That is considered a tax increase for those who do not understand basic economics. You have passed tax credits, but those are not tax cuts. A tax cut means that tax rates have decreased and will remain that way. A tax credit is a temporary refund that a person is forced to pay back when he is taxed on it at later date.

In 2009 you passed a tax credit on people’s paychecks that amounted to an additional $10 a paycheck. When filing taxes in 2010, those who received that credit will be charged income tax on that extra money along with the rest of their income. Explain how this is a tax cut. Simple, it’s not.

You have blatantly shown contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. The Senate blacked a bill of yours that would have established another bureaucracy known as the Fiscal Commission. Instead of respecting the political process you are going to issue an executive order to create this Fiscal Commission and get what you want. How childish! You cannot override the House and Senate every time you do not get your way. This is an abuse of your executive power. This very act is something a dictator does. But then, you said once that you would rule this country.

Lastly, you have already demonstrated you desire to take over health care, businesses, and banks, but now you want education. The education in America is already largely controlled by the federal government, but you want more. You want a bill that will allow the government more control of education all in the name of protecting the children. The Department of Education already regulates schools including universities. Yet, many college graduates still cannot read anything longer than a magazine or even discuss current world events. And you have the gall to insist that more government legislation will fix this? You have the audacity to tell students that if they take out a student loan to pay for college they will not have to pay it back after ten years if they get a government job, or twenty years if they get a regular job. Instead the government will absorb the loan. Not only is this financial suicide for the United States since we are trillions of dollars in debt and have no money, but this is insulting to those who took responsibility for their debts and paid off their loans. I am one of those people. I paid for my education. I paid my student loans. Not the government.

How dare you insist that people need the government’s help to pay for anything. How dare you encourage young people to not take responsibility for themselves and their education but instead to let the government handle it. Your big government policies will breed yet another generation of people who refuse to work for anything, refuse to be self reliant, but instead believe that they are entitled to everything. They will believe that government should provide for them. This is not only a violation of the U.S. Constitution but an insult to the American character.

Like any tyrant this does not concern you. You want people to believe that you are doing all of this out of compassion because you care. You are an arrogant fool who cares only for yourself. You refer to yourself so much it is difficult to believe that you care for anything else. You wish for us to look upon you as our Savior and the savior of America. Mr. President, you are one of many that has helped destroy this country. There is one savior and he died on a cross. Would you do the same? You talk about Americans making sacrifices. You talk about how it is time for Washington to tighten its belt. Where are those sacrifices on the part of Washington? Where are your sacrifices? What are you willing to sacrifice?

When it comes down to it, Mr. President, your mouth is a black hole that spouts empty words.

Sincerely,

Lady Liberty

7/26/2009

Dear Mr. President,

I want to thank you for doing in six months what many liberals failed to do in 70 years. You have successfully turned us into a socialist nation.   (note the sarcasm)

You rushed through the stimulus bill saying that it was imperative in order to stop the recession. You promised us jobs, a tax cut, and a decrease in the cost of living. You told us that the stimulus bill would do all these things. You told us that this bill would keep the unemployment rate from exceeding 8%. It now sits at 9.7% and is well on its way to being 10%. Where are all the jobs you promised us? And do not tell me about the teacher that was spared the pink slip or all of the state and federal jobs that exist to contend with the bureaucracy your bill created. Where are the jobs for the manual laborers? What about the small businesses that have closed their doors? Those are the jobs we need. It appears that the only people that have benefitted from this bill are state and federal employees. The number one beneficiary is the Federal Government.

You promised us fiscal responsibility. In the last six months where have you or your administration demonstrated fiscal responsibility? That Stimulus Bill cost $787 billion dollars. You had to borrow money from China to help pay for it. Clearly, the United States is bankrupt if you are borrowing money to pay for a bill that is supposed to stimulate the economy. How is that being fiscally responsible? What was in that 1,600 page bill? Did you even read it? I think not, considering you rushed it through during your first week as president. You promised no more pork, but how can a bill that it over a 1,000 pages long not have any pork?

In a recent address of yours, you said that the stimulus package was doing exactly what it was designed to do. I thought it was supposed to promote economic growth. Instead we are getting an economic collapse. So if your statement is true, then that means this bill was designed to destroy the economy, create unemployment, and bring fear to the American people.

And now you want us to accept your health care reform bill. You are adamant about getting it passed before the end of the year. Why the rush? What is in this bill that you do not want people to know about? Could it be that you know within a year’s time you will not have the majority you need to pass your agenda? This bill has the pungent smell of dead fish. It can’t be about reform. You are just expanding an already broken system and shoving everyone into it. We have already proven in this country that government run health care does not work. Medicare and Medicaid are two government run health care programs on a limited scale and they are both bankrupt. The people on these programs do not get the care they need because they have to wait for approval from the government.

Why are we following the model of Europe or even Canada when it comes to health care? Their government run systems are failing. People leave those countries and come to the United States for medical care. Are you so arrogant that you believe you can do it better? Are you so stupid that you refuse to learn from the mistakes of others? Do you truly care about the best interest of America, or are you only concerned about what helps Barack Obama? But most importantly, will be subject the very system that you want to put the American people on?

This health care reform bill is too conveniently timed. Most people without health insurance are unemployed. The unemployment rate is dangerously close to 10%. People are frightened that if something happened they won’t get to see a doctor much less be able to pay for it. And here you step in to save the day with another expansive government program. Very, very convenient.

And why so silent on Cap and Trade? I know the bill is being pushed through Congress. Please explain why we need to tax the hell out of businesses in order to offset global warming. The passage of this bill will prove disastrous for this country, especially since we are in a recession. Cap and Trade has never worked in the past in reducing carbon emissions. It did destroy businesses. You passed a stimulus bill to stimulate the economy. Now you want to pass Cap and Trade which is known for destroying the economy. Don’t the two cancel each other out?

Your foreign policy is no better than what you have done domestically. You routinely call America an arrogant nation. You insult your own country overseas mentioning it with disdain. Not once have you defended America. Do you hate your own country so much that you are incapable of talking about the very things that make America great? Not once have you mentioned what we have given the world. The United States feeds most of the world’s population. We are always there to help those that desire freedom from tyranny and oppression. We have defeated some of the worst tyrants in history for the sake of the world.

You are the President of the United States. It is your duty to protect and defend the American people. You have failed to perform such a task. When North Korea vowed to wipe the United States off the map, you said nothing. When Somali pirates took Americans hostage, you waited over a week to finally do something. It was only when people started asking questions that you finally sent in the Navy Seals to free the hostages. You won’t even address the atrocities that are happening in Iran. You have snubbed Israel, our only ally in the Middle East. Instead you shake hands and act all chummy with the likes of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Raul Castro. You derided the Honduran people for defending their country and constitution from a man who tried to declare himself a president for life. Why do you like dictators so much?

You promised us hope and change. Instead of change you brought us more of the same. Instead of hope we have despair. You lied to us, Mr. President. You sold us a bill of goods. You conned the American people into voting for you. You have demonstrated that you are unfit to be the President of the United States.

You are a sniveling little weasel. A man who slithered his way into the Oval Office on false promises and false hope. You have systematically taken over elements of this country that were once in the hands of the private sector, the people. You have systematically usurped the Constitution. You have betrayed the trust of the American people. You have betrayed the U.S. Constitution. You, Sir, are a traitor.

Signed,

Lady Liberty