I am not in the habit of writing open letters to anyone. But, in light of today's press conference, I thought you deserved special treatment.
I am appalled at your continued willingness to entertain as honored guests an Iranian regime which has proven to be violent, corrupt, and suspect in every area from human rights to voting practices. That you are "disturbed" by images of an Iranian girl is disturbing, because as I watched you deliver your words, your demeanor contradicted them. You did not act as a man disturbed by killing of innocents in this protest of Iran's people against a sham election results. (Paper ballots in the millions counted, and the winner declared, before the election was completed? I don't think so, and neither do the people who believe--I think rightly so--that their votes were not counted.)
Instead after using the word "condemn," you continued to hold out Fourth of July hot dogs to Iran's current regime.
While Britain expels Iranian ambassadors, we ask Iran's bloody leadership to a picnic at the White House. In this, you again slap our allies, while giving aid and comfort to our enemies, all in the name of creating a "path to peace"--peace at any price, Mr. President? That policy has never worked in the entirety of history, except to enslave those desiring that kind of "peace."
Would you have entertained China after the horrors of Tianamen Square? Given your present track record, I'm afraid I would say you would have. As it is, you've enslaved our people, by means of massive endebtedness, to China, Japan, and others. You would have us owned by countries whose interests and philosophies differ greatly from our own. And you and the Democratic Congress did this WITHOUT the permission of the American people, to whom you answer, Mr. President.
You are a servant of the People, Mr. President, not an absolute monarch. The Congress would do well to remember that they also serve the people who elected them, not you, nor anyone else. The Supreme Court serves to protect the integrity of the United States Constitution, not to legislate it. But your administration has forgotten these things. You "order" the Congress to have this or that bill done and ready for you to sign by such-and-such date, as if the Executive Branch were the only branch of government that matters. Even with your "czars", AKA "courtiers", who answer only to you, you are still subject to the will of the people through the Congress, which is also answerable to the will of the people.
If our Representatives in the House and our Senators in the Senate are not allowed time to read, debate, and come up with right solutions to our manifold problems--many of your own making, Mr. President--then the blame falls to you, and you alone.
The "Bush Administration made me do it" argument fails to wash; YOU are responsible; YOU have reneged on your campaign promises.
And now the $250K limit for income taxation increases has fallen to $100K--quite a drop--and, speaking of taxes, you are also proposing taxes on tabacco, soft drinks, gasoline, even a VAT tax on top of the taxes already mentioned, not including the state income and sales taxes some of us are required to pay. So you make the poor, poorer; those who could give them jobs bankrupt; penalize those employers who offer great benefits; and take over companies when you have no clue how to run them.
Why? That is the great question.
Why would you kill so many golden geese and ruin any future chances of golden eggs? Class hatred? No, I don't think so. To make everyone equal with equal chances? No, I don't believe it for one second. Revenge? Nope. I think everyone reading this letter should ask themselves why a President of the United States--formerly the most powerful nation in the world--would intentionally weaken that nation and its institutions. Why, in the name of helping those who need help, would that President cause so many others, formerly not in need of help and able to give aid to others, to become taxed into poverty, regulated into bankruptcy, and punished for contributing to the welfare of the very ones he so vehemently states he wants to help? I'd love to hear your answer, Mr. President, not the answer for today, but the ANSWER.
You cut the military budget, while protesting that you are trying to protect America. You "honor" our soldiers by cutting their insurance, their equipment budget, and allowing some in your administration to "suggest" that returning veterans may be a danger to our population, while releasing terrorist detainees--some of whom do not wished to BE released--from GITMO and shutting down that facility which our nation needs. You've cut the missile defense budget and programs down to dangerous levels at a time when both North Korea and Iran pose significant neuclear missile threats to our very shores, not to include our allies, e.g. Israel. (By-the-way, even Israel issued a statement yesterday saying they'd be willing to work with a NEW government in Iran--a definite policy change,wouldn't you say? And yet, you hedge, hem and haw, and wait to see which side will win. Courage, Mr. President! It's a virtue in a leader of the FREE WORLD.)
And now you want a new Health Care Program, modeled on the failed and notoriously bad European systems, e.g., Canada and Great Britain. THEY hate their health care, and now you, with such "altruisitic motives," want to bring the dross into our system, not to fix what is wrong with our current free market system, but to replace the gold in it that now exists. So, we will have government committees privy to our private health needs and sitting in judgment over who will and won't be able to get the care they need. Putting all of our health care records on computers? Give me a break! How reckless is that? You are exposing every person in this nation to identity theft, hackers who could literally change records, perhaps resulting in anything from misdiagnoses to death. And let's not forget the ever-present problem of "my computer's down", "rebooting", "updating".... This is NOT a good idea, and it is an expensive one. Most doctors could not afford to implement this overhaul of their records and offices. I won't go into all that is wrong with your $10 trillion health care program, because YOU have not given us all of the details! Do you not know what they are, Mr. President? Or do you just not want our representatives and the People to know what they are before YOU force a vote.
And now the American people are awash in debt; American businesses are now controlled by the government; the financial sector is in turnmoil, and YOUR solutions have produced more unemployment, less opportunity for future employment, and more national debt that any other President since the inauguration of President Washington as the first President of these United States.
I'd love to hear your answer, Mr. President, not the answer for today, but the ANSWER. The repetition IS intentional. I'm waiting.
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