Tea Party April 15th

To: All Congressmen and women April 15, 2009


Today, April 15th 2009, I had the pleasure of attending a Tea Party in Springfield, IL. It was well attended sans mainstream media coverage. It was an uplifting, spirited gathering of like-minded people that are just plain fed up with a Federal Government that is totally out of control. The issue is not a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent, but an American issue!

Throughout the country today hundreds of thousands, and possibly a million people came together in a common cause………status quo in congress is no longer acceptable to the American people. There is a huge swell of dissatisfaction with the lack of congressional performance.

You seem to forget that you are employees of the citizens of the United States of America, and we are your employers. Your salaries, pension plans, health care packages, and congressional perks are far too generous, and I think significant adjustment should be made to bring them back to the realm of reality. I think we can start with abrogation of your current pension plan, and put you on Social Security like the vast majority of Americans, and an HMO for your health care. As to your salaries, your employer should be the one to determine if your performance has been satisfactory, and if it is we should be the ones to grant a pay raise. Employees should never have the power to vote themselves a pay raise. A Merit pay raise should be performance based.

Then there is the Income tax issue, why do we have an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tax Code that is 60,000 pages long and is so complex that no one can totally understand it. There is a simple solution to the problem, scrap the IRS, implement a flat tax plan, or better yet a consumption tax.

Since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt The American people have been fed incrementally small doses of Statism that has slowly but surely eroded our rights as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and our Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is explicit and unequivocal in its meaning, and that is to protect the people from an intrusive and oppressive government. You know what? You people have not been living up to that guarantee.


We the people (your employer) are sick and tired of the uncontrolled spending and ignoring the guidance provided by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. When you swore on the Holy bible that you “shall be bound by Oath or affirmation, to support the Constitution” it was a sacred oath, and for ethical responsible office holders it should never be breached. Unfortunately you violate that sacred oath on a daily basis. It would seem that the Constitution has been relegated to nothing more than a historic document with no relevance in today’s world. We the American people disagree, and want it reinstated to its proper and intended standing as the blue print for guidance of this great country. The Constitution tells us what the Federal Government can and can’t do for example Article1Section 8 lists the enumerated powers, spells out what the Federal Government can do, and the 10th Amendment states “The powers not delegated to the United states by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or the people.”

For you employees whose approval rating today is uh………33.8% that is hardly a passing grade. The message promulgated here is, if you continue down this road and continue to disregard the dictates of the Founding Fathers (that would be the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence) we the people can guarantee you, there will undoubtedly be a large turn over in the United states Congress this next election.

A college graduate, and a retired veteran of the United States military is writing this letter. I am not some wild-eyed right wing radical that advocates the violent over throw of the United States Government. What I am however is an American citizen, and a patriot that loves his country, and I am disheartened by the actions of a congress that threatens our sovereignty, and the very existence of our country, as we know it. I want our country back, and it is your sworn duty as congressmen and congresswomen to reject the political philosophies of Statism, Transnationalism, and Nationalism that has caused decades of erosion of our sovereignty, eroding of our individual rights, and loss of respect in the eyes of the world, and get back to our Constitution.

Clearly, fascism, and tyranny have already become evident, particularly in this administration. This is like Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, and must be stopped.

Final words change your ways, straighten up and fly right, otherwise you will feel the wrath of millions of voters at the ballot box this next election. The vox populi will be heard!