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Senator Hutchinson,

I am responding to a message you sent in reply to my concerns regarding the national debt, our usurious monetary system, our doomed economy and HR 6550.   Since I disagree very strongly with your position, I thought it best to offer rebuttal to each paragraph of your generic email. I have therefore included your message with my remarks inserted. 

Dear Friend: Thank you for contacting me regarding our national debt. I welcome your thoughts and comments. 

You are not my friend, nor that of the American People.

Since you welcome my thoughts and comments, you shall have them along with a few questions.

Why do you so detest the Working People of America?  I do not ask this sarcastically or in jest. I would ask it of you and virtually all members of the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

Why do you hate the American People? 

A serious answer is sincerely desired.

Although you and your partners in crime, across all three branches, constantly espouse your commitment to America, its People and its constitution, your actions belie your hollow words.  

Out-of-control spending has put the United States in a tenuous economic position. Over the past two years, the federal government has posted deficits of $1.4 trillion and $1.3 trillion, respectively. Our nation's accumulated debt surpassed a historical $14 trillion benchmark in December 2010, and it continues to grow by more than $4 billion per day, on average. 

You speak of deficits and the debt as if they were all created anew in the last two years. This is completely spurious and deceitful.

Virtually all of the debt our nation now bears, which you and your co-felons are placing squarely upon the backs of the American Worker, was passed along by the preceding administration, which intentionally turned a surplus into the greatest debt in our history.

Aside from that, our national debt is the purposed result of the Federal Reserve Act and has been mounting steadily since that unconstitutional abomination was passed, privatising our currency and giving control of the economy to the private, for-profit, usurious central bank.

The primary place where spending is truly out of control is the euphemistic "defense" budget. A detailed analysis of the Analytical Perspectives of the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012, proves indisputably that a full 48% is tied to the military.

Fifty to seventy five percent of this could be cut without really compromising our "national defense"; if it was actually for defense and not wars of conquest.  

Yet serious discussion of cuts to military spending is never broached nor even tolerated.

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Richard W. Posner was born in america in 1947, raised in a lower middle class, blue collar family and has lived and worked in several states including New York, Connecticut, Florida, New Mexico and, currently, Texas. He is an autodidactic (more...)
 

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