The Honorable President Obama,
Everyone I talk to including the unemployed is against government spending. We can not spend ourselves out of debt. Government needs to get out of the way. We are on the brink of a fiscal disaster after limitless spending by Washington. A number of states and cities are showing better ways to manage this recession. That should be a shining example of where to start.
It does not help anyone for the American public to remain silent.
Here is my view after watching the speech on a jobs bill and seeing the behavior of the administrative officers.
The all smiles, cheering section fit Washington but not the nation. The warm embraces of mostly the black men in the room seems racist to me. We need an example of embracing all people, all of us -- we are all part of God's community irregardless of color, race, or economic condition. This is a serious moment of reflection on over 17 percent unemployed and many of us have given up looking for equivalent employment and settled in for the long haul by doing something far less which gets us by. Many of us are totally out of work. I personally have worked hard to keep my friends employed by being a cheer leader for simply working anywhere. Preserve your dignity and carry your own load has been the message. Get out and pull your load to help America come back.
This is a job for the private sector. I love Paul Ryan's plan to take out all loop holes for corporate America. Like embracing only the black men in the room for the most part -- it represents an unbalanced view of America to give stimulus money -- almost 1/2 trillion more in debt to those chosen ones on your list. We need leadership in America. Stand up and listen to the leaders in congress with bipartisan solutions on the floor. The list of bills not passed is the political in-fighting. Spending our way out is not the answer.
Institute a flat tax for everybody ... lower the load for everybody and remove all loop holes. Get a line item veto and strip all bills of all pork. Let the states do their business locally.
The media does a good job of highlighting how government cripples business. Gibson guitar is a good example. EPA over regulation is another good example. Crippling oil development in the states is a good example. Show leadership by giving contracts to those who can do an infrastructure that will be solar / wind / alternative fuel where it makes sense for the government to do so. Cover our interstate freeways with solar panels and give us 3 times the amount of electricity that we need now. Let the utility companies provide the conduit from it but keep the nickle for developing the service -- use the service money for entitlement funding. Do not give us unfunded government programs!
Don't peddle our dignity by funding entitlements. Fund the future with the type of infrastructure we need. Solar Roadways will cost us the price of repaving the interstate highways and leave us with a national fault tolerant grid. And it will not be done through our major corporations. It avoids cronyism which seems to be the next favorite buzzword in this struggle between parties.
Isn't medicare and social security prime examples of unfunded, untended social programs that need help? Create a service sector in the government which supports them. Put people to work through such programs. Let that stimulus be an example to the private sector of renewable energy successes. End of story.
Let fair taxes eliminate all the lobby effort to maintain the loopholes both in the private and public sector. Make the public sector justify their budgets yearly. Eliminate such words as Czars and come back to ground zero where we all live. Embrace all of us in the room of politics.
Thank you for your time Mr. President. I know we can do better that what we have seen as quite a show for something that you repeatedly said was, "already paid for!" No, this is a stimulus bill -- clear and simple. Please give us leadership. Listen to the other party and the ideas that take out entitlements to the big donors of the present government on both sides of the aisles.
