AN OPEN LETTER TO AN UNITED STATES SENATOR

16 June 2010

Dear Senator;

Last night President Barack Obama gave a national Oval Office address to the American people. It dealt mostly with the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an economic and environmental catastrophe for the people and wildlife of the Gulf Coast.

Yet, more alarming than the fact that President Obama had no answers on how to “pug the leak,” or why his administration has acted so slowly to bring all available resources to the problem – is the shameless use of this catastrophe to further his political agenda, i.e. cap and trade legislation. It should be an embarrassment to the President of the United States and his supporters that he would proffer Rahm Emanuel’s sordid bromide, “you never let a serious crisis go to waste,” as a panacea to this historic American disaster.

With, Cap and Trade as with the rest of the Obama legislative agenda: only special interest groups will profit; it will further economically ruin the American economy; and fail to address the problem. What it does do, is to perpetuate the twin hoax of global warming and that green energy can meet all our energy needs.

After a year and a half of the Obama Administration and a Congress controlled by Democrats in both the House and Senate, let’s add up the score:

1. TARP – a transfer of taxpayer’s wealth to bailout the Bankers and Hedge Funds.

2. US Auto Makers -- a transfer of taxpayer’s wealth to bailout the Auto Worker’s Union.

3. Stimulus Bill -- a transfer of taxpayer’s wealth to bailout the Public Sector Employee’s Unions, i.e. State and County Workers, Teacher Unions.

4. AIG Bailout – a transfer of taxpayer’s wealth to bailout again Bankers and Hedge Funds both foreign, i.e. German, Swiss, French, English, etc., and domestic.

5. Health Care Reform – destroy the best healthcare system in the world, bankrupt the US Economy, and do nothing to correct the real problem in healthcare, which is Tort Reform, and hence pay off America’s Trial Lawyers at the expense of the American people.

6. Financial Reform – a 3,000-page reform legislation (House and Senate bills) that nobody has read, that addresses the wrong problems, and that no one understands. Buried in those 3,000 pages are numerous clauses and sub-clauses, codicils, caveats, and amendments, to say nothing of the rule-making process, that will surely complicate reform and create another giant Federal bureaucracy. Where have I seen that before? Oh yes, health care reform. As in heath care, the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress wouldn't do what's needed because of their friends, in this case, the "banksters," and "hedgies," and "AIGs." We need Glass-Steagall. A 34 page document that served America for 60 years. We need Banks that are Banks, and not casinos.

7. Military Retirement Pay – finally, after the trillions of dollars the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress authorized to the Bankers, Hedge Funds, AIG, Auto Unions, Public Sector Unions, Teachers Union, Trail Lawyers (indirectly), and ACORN, all at the American tax payers expense – for the first time in recent memory Obama and his Democratic cohorts’ could not find “one cent” for an Annual Cost of Living increase for America’s retired military.

Yes, George W. Bush, did support and sign into law TARP and the Auto Union bailout, but I never liked him much either.

So what’s the score? I have it:

Special Interests Everything;
The American People Nothing.

In sum, we need to learn from others when they speak good sense. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the phrase “ all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” is astonishingly germane to the Obama agenda this past year and a half. It is only the Special Interests* who thrive in the Obama Administration, to detriment of the greatness and welfare of the American people.

In the last analysis, you don’t represent me Senator.


* Economist James M. Buchanan and other "public choice" theorists explain, a special interest is any community that attempts to gain a particular advantage from government.