This is a response to the form letter I received from this sleazy politician and creepy Republican Congressman. I signed a petition online for Tier 5 extensions that sent an email to many Congress men and women. I received his pathetic form letter response that only infuriated me.

The matter of our unemployment benefits and extensions should truly be a number one priority for our government. The fact that it is used as a partisan pawn for passing or blocking whatever whims a particular politician has up their skirt, so to speak, is a disgrace.

Form letter received from Congressman Roy Blunt

The Republicans want to claim that they are all about saving money and not racking up more debt for our country, however they would sell their own children to keep that tax credit for the rich from disappearing. They fail to mention that by keeping that tax break, the government will be forced into further debt just to honor it. That’s not to say that the Democrats don’t have their own problems with governmental mismanagement either.

Before I start on another tirade, I will end here. Below is the response that I sent to Mr. Roy Blunt. As my letter states, I seriously doubt that he will even read it. However, I wanted to go on record with the world by publishing my response for everyone to see. Feel free to use any part of my letter to start an email of your own to any Congressman/woman whom you feel needs a wake up call. (In my opinion, that’s all of them!)

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Mr. Blunt,

As much as I agree with you that our nation needs jobs to help with the recovery, in the meantime, millions of families are being put out on the streets with their entire life savings depleted and no jobs available to support their families. I completely agree with you that our nation cannot afford to have more debt placed upon it, however, billions of dollars are being thrown away every day by our government for uneeded transportation, lavish dinner parties, overly high incomes and more waste than I could possibly imagine.

I am a realist, Mr. Blunt. I know that you ‘good ole boys’ up there are used to a certain kind of lifestyle. I know that you guys are used to $200+ dinners, vacations in Europe, and hired help in your homes, but maybe that’s the problem. Try supporting your family on $30,000 a year. Do you think you could? Do you think you could enjoy your daily activities if you knew that your children would have to go to school wearing only the clothes you could find at a garage sale or if you’re lucking, maybe the Goodwill got a new shipment from Target. Do you think you could pay all of your bills, mortgage, electric, water, cable, phone, credit cards, and groceries on $30,000 a year? What if you had a $115,000 per year job and was laid off and then forced to live on $30,000. Do you think your creditors would really care?

Now, let’s get down to brass tacks. Now the $30,000 a year that you’ve been struggling with is going to end. You’ve mailed, emailed, hand delivered and faxed in your resume to over 5000 companies. You’ve continually searched for work even to the point that companies are telling you to stop applying and that they will call you if they’re hiring. You’ve tried to find a job in a lower end of the work force, but no one will hire you because you’re overqualified. They won’t hire you because they know that the minute a better job comes along, you’ll leave and they’ll have wasted all of that time and money on training you. But now it all changes.

The goverment that you’ve been supporting through your taxes and the 35 years worth of unemployment that you’ve been paying into is going to dry up. The ‘good ole boys’ have decided that they would rather spend money on other countries that have homeless and people starving. They have decided that it’s better to send millions of dollars to aide countries in order to make the USA look good. They don’t seem to realize that a quarter of our country is going to become homeless. That to the rest of the world, we are a heartless government that would rather send money overseas than help keep our own people with a roof over their heads.

When I moved a couple months ago, I had to reregister to vote in my new town. When asked if I wanted to stay a Republican, I declined. I have changed my affiliation to Independent. Not because I believe the Independents know what they’re doing, but because I don’t believe in any party anymore. The Republicans have become a money hungry, selfish party for the rich and the Democrats have become a spend crazy, selfish party for the highest bidder. Our country is falling apart. When will you guys realize that all of this partisan bickering and arguing over nickles and dimes won’t save us? When will you guys finally sit down and say, “This isn’t working and it’s time to start over.”?

I know that you all start off wanting to make a difference when you’re first elected, but then you are indoctrinated into the ‘club’ and the promises and values that you once had disappear down a long dark tunnel filled with lined pockets and back scratching. Maybe one day you will all realize that unless all of you can stop what you’re doing (because it’s not working) and really sit down to try and fix the problems without the partisan problems, then maybe our country will have a chance. Until then, I just hope you’re lining the pockets of a Swiss bank account with foreign funds, because the American dollar will be worth nothing in less than 20 years.

I realize that you will probably just have an underling read this or you’ll read it while drinking your coffee and talking on the phone, so it really wont make any difference to you at all, but if you had an empathetic bone in your body at one time in your life, then maybe one or two of my points might hit home. It only takes one step to start a marathon. The ‘good ole boys’ got to be who they are through greed and power plays. They don’t always have to be that way. Maybe you could start the change of the ‘good ole boys’ to actually being ‘good’. Maybe a bit of realism would help. Spend one day in a soup kitchen. Spend one day at an unemployment office. Spend one day in the welfare office. The people there aren’t all just lost causes. Many of them were just like you. You just caught a break. You got lucky. One day you might find yourself in that unemployment office or in that soup kitchen. Wouldn’t you want to know that your family needs were taken care of by a government that you’ve supported your entire life?

KB

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