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The Elite and Their Political Servants

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

My Exercise In Futility

Over the past several months I have been engaged in a campaign of hounding a large number of congress members in the naïve hope of jarring one or two out of the delusional world they occupy.

Sadly, it is I who was delusional.

I began by going to each of their websites and using their email contact module to send a form letter I created demanding the passage of HR 6550, The National Emergency Employment Defense Act .

Since I am not a constituent of most of these faux "representatives", I am not privy to a response from them. Many House members have their sites set up so that non-constituents can't even contact them via email.

To circumvent this issue, wherever possible, I requested whatever variety of "newsletter" was available from each rep that could be contacted, specifying an interest in their budget/economic position. Each time I received a generic "newsletter", I responded by going back to their website contact form, thanking them for the "newsletter" and re-submitting my form letter demanding passage of HR 6550.

After lo these many months, no surprise, nothing but generic responses triggered by the topic one is required to select when using the comments module. No actual or direct response to the specific issue in question.

A Change in Venue

Recently it has been necessary for me to move my family to Texas. Not something I'm particularly happy about.

I decided to abandon my mass nagging campaign in favor of badgering only those reps of whom I am officially a "constituent". I'll be extending my campaign to other Texas reps, including the democrats, in the days ahead, if I can get them to respond directly.

I still choose to hope that if enough people, acting in unison, were to continually bombard their ostensible "representatives" with the same message it could be part of a nonviolent revolution. While we still have access to this technology why not use it to ensure that it, along with all our other rights, is not taken from us? It is a modern "voice" of the People. As such, along with massive demonstrations, civil disobedience and even a general strike, it can and should be a component of a bloodless rebellion.

I recently received a somewhat more "direct" response from one Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex.

 Below is a copy of my response. Hutchinson in normal text, my response in bold italic.  

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.

Instead, any and all budget allotments intended to Promote The General Welfare as the Constitution mandates, which you so disdainfully and falsely stigmatise as "entitlements", are viciously targeted and slashed, even though they receive only 38% of the budget when combined.

You are promoting the specific welfare of the small minority who need it the least at the cost of impoverishing the vast majority. 

The national debt is at its statutory limit of $14.3 trillion. I believe that raising the debt limit without taking steps to address our long-term budget crisis would be grossly irresponsible. I will vote to increase the debt ceiling only if it is accompanied by substantial cuts in current and future spending -- with no tax increases -- that put our fiscal house in order so that the debt limit is not raised again. 

With no tax increases?

The existing tax cuts, benefiting most those who neither need nor deserve them, cost the government several billion more than your draconian assault upon the constitution, the elderly, sick, poor and working class Americans could save.

There is repeated insistence that reduced taxes will create jobs and laissez faire capitalism will save the economy. All the while, double-digit unemployment continues and will certainly increase dramatically if you get you way and the economy continues its downward spiral. All this even while taxes on the wealthiest among us are, and have been for years, at their lowest in many decades and the private sector has been deregulated to the point it owns the government.

The tax rate for the richest, albeit completely unproductive, minority has followed a downward trend since the mid-sixties, during which time, as productivity and profits surged, wages stagnated and dropped while jobs disappeared.

The financial industry, a glaring non sequitur since it produces nothing but disaster for the majority, and the corporatocracy it owns, have increasingly written their own laws which have been rubber-stamped by a sham government.  

Actually, I agree that many of the richest should not be further taxed. Rather, their assets should be seized and their persons confined to federal prisons for the remainder of their unnatural lives. 

Cutting the size of government is crucial to ensuring our economic stability and national security. We must make bold cuts where we can, while carefully prioritizing investment in areas of strategic national importance. 

It's not so much the "size" of government that's the problem. It's who's running it. 

There is no government in this country. There is a wholly owned subsidiary of a multinational corporatocracy, which is financed and owned in turn by the international banking cartel.

You call the cuts you insist upon bold? Don't you mean ruthless, callous and immoral?

Would it be a safe guess that "areas of strategic national importance" you allude to include illegal wars of aggression?

Would they by any chance embrace the monstrous corporations that make billions in profits from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians; not to mention no-bid contracts awarded and weapons of mass destruction sold for use in illegal invasions and occupations?

Might they also count continued welfare for the destructive, polluting and murderous multi-national corporations that, in many cases, pay no tax whatsoever regardless of what the ostensible rate may be?

You and your anti-democracy accomplices have made it very clear that they certainly include gifts of trillions to the needy of Wall Street and the struggling, overtaxed billionaires of the plutocracy and, lest we forget, foreign banks.

However, through some unintentional oversight I'm sure, it seems there is no consideration in your plans for the well being of the Working People of America; to Promote the General Welfare.

In fact, judging by your pronouncements and actions, it would seem undeniable that your intention is to transform America into a third world country and the American Worker into a new slave caste. 

Congress should not base spending cuts on the spending spree levels of the past two years. I support capping federal discretionary spending at fiscal year (FY) 2008 levels. I am a cosponsor of S. 360, the Honest Expenditure Limitation Program (HELP) Act, legislation introduced by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), that would save $1 trillion by maintaining spending at these levels through 2020. 

Spending spree?

You are apparently suffering from selective amnesia since you have obviously "forgotten" the eight years prior to the election of Mr. Obama.

That's not to say the president has lived up to the hopes We the People had for him. Since he has worked so diligently to advance the agenda of right-wing extremism and corporate fascism, I fail to understand why you all make such a show of your feigned contempt for him.

But then, I suppose, the show must go on.

Oh. I almost forgot. He's not 100% white is he?

S 360 is an obscenity;

"A BILL

To reduce the deficit by establishing discretionary spending caps for non-security spending. (c) Non-Security Spending- In this section, the term "non-security discretionary spending" means discretionary spending other than spending for the Department of Defense, homeland security activities, intelligence related activities within the Department of State, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and national security related activities in the Department of Energy."

Let us reduce that paragraph, actually the entire document, to its essence; The unholy trinity of Empire Building, Wars of Aggression and Death for Profit may not be curtailed for any reason.

This is yet another step in stealing the last crumbs of remaining wealth from the working people of America that it may be redistributed upward to the parasitic aristocracy of which you apparently imagine you will be a member. 

Nevertheless, with our nation facing a projected $1.6 trillion budget deficit for this year, capping discretionary spending and eliminating wasteful spending will not be enough. I am a cosponsor of S.J.Res. 10, an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require a balanced federal budget. Under this amendment, introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and co-sponsored by the entire Senate Republican Conference, total spending could not exceed total revenues for any given year, and also could not exceed 18 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the United States. 

S.J.Res.10 is an unconstitutional abomination.

Its true purpose and intent are made clear once it is understood that it gives over responsibility for the enumerated powers of Congress to the executive who will write the budget, designate taxes, and how the money will be spent.

We will be taxed for whatever the executive decides to spend, or not more than 18% of the GDP.

But wait! There's more!

The Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Department of Commerce, which is responsible for calculating the GDP, is an agency controlled by the executive. Therefore, the executive controls the agency which computes the number that limits his spending.

Your BBA is a scam, which would legalize spending that is presently unlawful, increase the powers of the federal government and do nothing to reduce spending.

Our constitution will be mutated from one with enumerated spending powers to one with general, meaning "unlimited", spending powers.

This amendment will open wide the door to totalitarian dictatorship.

As Congress works on the FY 2012 budget and a long-term plan to cut spending and balance the federal budget, I will keep your comments and advice in mind. 

Keep this in mind; You and most members of congress are in violation of the Oath you took to defend the Constitution. You have turned over the entire wealth of the nation to a tiny fraction of its population and are willfully selling the Working People of America into slavery. 

In closing I will add the following in the forlorn hope that you still have even a minuscule spark of humanity left, somewhere in your soul, struggling to be recognised; 

If congress would simply pass HR 6550, The National Emergency Employment Defense Act, the problem of the debt ceiling would vanish along with the national debt.

But that's not really what you want, is it?

That would spoil your dream of being part of the "royalty" or, at the very least, a favoured servant.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.''

Despite your best efforts and those of the financial cartel that owns you to make it so, welfare is not a four letter word.

You and they are the parasites, leeches and free-loaders; not the elderly, poor, jobless, crippled, ill and homeless who are, in fact, your victims.

With All Due Respect,

Richard William Posner

Authors Bio:

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 generalist whose insatiable appetite for knowledge and understanding motivated him to abandon the public school system so he could actually learn something. His only “credentials” are a GED. He has spent the last fifty years or so working as a blue collar labourer, playing in several rock bands, being a potter’s apprentice and acquiring enough computer skills to become reasonably proficient with several graphics and electronic music applications as well as the usual office programs. But above all else, during that time, he has committed himself to the intense study of everything from anthropology to zealotry in what has been so far a vain attempt to comprehend the undeniable death-wish of the human species.