Who profits from kindness?

Each day, I am petrified for my children. I am petrified for the future. I feel completely helpless to protect them from the crisis of our nation. I'm not afraid of the national deficit, as it has been here for decades and does not actually personally effect any of us. But I am afraid of a large number of our citizens who behave so irrationally that they can sway the court of public opinion to act against all of our best interests.

It is not the people that truly follow their best educated beliefs and become activists for their causes. I love activism and the lively debates that come of passionate individuals debating. But this group of people are not thinking for themselves, they are being wagged by an ultra-wealthy 2% of our nation who figured out they can manipulate a majority to do whatever they want.

It is the sheep that frighten me. People so susceptible to follow that they act against their own interests to support an ideology with no facts or real benefits to themselves. For several decades we have been told in America that tax cuts were the way to support growth in society, that a completely deregulated free-market system allows us all to be rich, and that universal health care would leave us dying in the streets. Yet there is not a single nation on earth following these recommendations and showing the example of wealth and prosperity.

I'm straying from the specific issue that I want to address, which is we are being lied to. There is no grass-roots conservative movement who is trying to revolt against big government spending and fighting for fiscal responsibility. There is however a majority now in Congress that is trying to legislate these values. But a large percentage of our recession struck nation is morally opposed to the actions of our government because of a handful of billionaires who feel threatened by the idea that they may lose their grip as the empirical power of America. I ask every citizen in this country why they would support 2% of our population to maintain the ability to oppress the rest of us and keep us from achieving a better life for ourselves. Because that is what is happening today.

The uprising known as the Chicago Tea Party, of which we are all supposed to believe is a citizen uprising trying to protect each and every one of us from government oppression, is a hoax orchestrated by a handful of wealthy people who care less whether you live or die. Yet many will fall for this, and believe that our government is not trying to act in all of our best interests. Please read these accounts that prove there is not an independent revolt against our President's actions.
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2009/02/tea-party-movement-planned-months-ago-by-gop-billionaires.html
http://exiledonline.com/exposing-the-familiar-rightwing-pr-machine-is-cnbcs-rick-santelli-sucking-koch/2/

The bloggers and journalists are not going to become billionaires for their work in exposing this. They are simply doing what is right to help us all be informed of the evil shepherds that are abusing the sheep in our nation.

We all must battle these myths with fact. Debate your neighbors, your family, and anyone you hear spouting this nonsense. But leave the emotion out of it. Simply attack with fact, and if you can convince one person to think for themselves you are a savior of our nation.

Oops, I did it again...

So our friend Jason in the House has managed to fix the proofreading marks, but maybe those could have helped refine the language used in my latest letter.

The term "so-called stimulus bill" seems so much like a scorned 14 year old girl writing a nasty letter to her ex-boyfriend. Call me picky, but I'd like a bit more professional conduct from my representative.

His "reasons" were the typical press sound-bites that we heard from the conservative media, all of which were quite counter to the truth of how this bill came about.

"The pork-laden non-stimulus bill was finalized under cloak of darkness, just before midnight last night. Members of Congress had less than 12 hours to review over 1,200 pages of federal government largesse before voting on it today. The bill is symbolic of the Democratic Party's broken promises with the American people. It is not at all representative of the "change" promised by the new Administration."

Really Jason? That's the story we're going to stick with? You are saying that reinvesting in our nation is not change?

His reasons go on, starting with the big fear-factor of how big the deficit currently is (as if that is a determining factor of how we need to change our country, why don't we just give up?), and states that the bill spends too much on welfare. I suppose we're just supposed to wait for the billionaires to give money to the poor and unemployed? That's been working so far, hasn't it?

Read for yourself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll question why he asked Rush Limbaugh to write this for him.

http://chaffetz.house.gov/2009/02/statement-of-congressman-jason-chaffetz-regarding-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-of-2009.shtml

Premature e-circulation?

Apparently they were working out some bugs in the Congressional offices of Jason Chaffetz. I received this letter via e-mail, and promise I've changed nothing. This is actually how it arrived to me.

First of all, I had written to Mr. Chaffetz a few times, but never in regards to E-Verify or anything even remotely close to immigration. Personally, I could care less. So I wonder how much Mr. Chaffetz actually values his constituents' input.

Second, the proofreading marks sure put that caring touch on. It showed me how much he really cared by not even bothering to personally check this document before it was sent.

Is Jason the clown prince of Congress? Or was this all planned and part of the ultimate show of transparency in government?