Let us whisper in your ears AND don’t ignore us…

As elected officials, the people in this country rely on you to take care of government affairs, to make sure the framework and guarantees set up by our Constitution are strictly adhered to.  Make no mistake, over 300 million people have entrusted you with this honor because our personal lives are complicated, our problems many and we cannot micromanage something on this scale.  Our votes placed you in the unique position to make this country healthy by your honesty and hard work or destroy it by your incompetence and/or greed. 

Shamefully, for over 200 years, the majority of you and your predecessors have chosen the latter.  Passing rules for what is legal and what is not, Congress has created an oligopolistic system to skim billions of taxpayer dollars under the guise of salaries, office expenses, staff requirements, etc., etc., etc.  Your greedy, backdoor, legislative conniveries are unconscionable and continue to funnel rivers of money into your expanding coffers, the pockets of your benefactors and lobbyists willing to pay the price to buy your vote…

What you call necessary, legislative, line item, budgetary expenses, we call theft on a grand scale perpetrated by a good-ole-boy system that severely punishes newcomers who don’t play according to the rules.  When voters demand accountability, you simply ignore us…now, your years of business as usual has brought America to the brink of disaster. 

Thomas Jefferson left us with a little advice.  He said, “If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”  After 200+ years, we have trusted too greatly. 

He further said, “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”  Look where we are today.  History has repeated itself many, many times and is doing so again. 

His solution… “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”  “Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Congress…Our elected representatives…

1.  You need to get off your self-serving backsides and remember who put you there and why.  WORK TOGETHER!!!! 

2.  Make sure EVERYONE IS TAXED EQUALLY!!!!

3.  Start by cleaning your own house before insisting on slicing chunks away from the people in this country who are struggling to make ends meet! Adhere to the Constitution and its law.  

4.  And finally… Don’t think the sleeping beast cannot be prodded out of its slumber.  That rumbling you hear is growing exponentially… We are not of one color, one faith, one gender or one political persuasion. Our tenets are as different as the part of the country we live in.   We are patriotic Americans, who, if awakened, will serve you up as our first meals, replacing you with others willing to honor our Constitution.  How we choose to do that is up to you…