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July 28, 2009
The Butchers of Hope, and the Reclaiming of American Greatness
By Jonathan Ayers
I have had enough of both parties and their inability to carry the water of the people they claim to represent. I think the current bicameral system is the whole reason that American citizens are so disgusted, and apathetic with politics. But, I have an answer to fix our current path. The complete fracturing of the DNC and RNC, into many different parties could just be the answer we need.
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*This is an actual letter sent to Richard Burr, Kay R Hagen and Heath Schuler, in response to the Health Care Act of 2009*
I AM SO SICK AND DAMN TIRED OF YOU IDIOT LEGISLATORS!
Not ONE of you is worth the spit required to put you out if you were on fire, I have had enough, and it is my belief that I am not a lone voice crying into the night.
The sheer fact that you are talking about this bill, as if it were some kind of actual debate sickens me. Both parties want this piece of filth; the only real concern seems to be about the survival rate of the incumbents own selfish political aspirations once it passes, and not the consequences to the peoples lives it affects. The Democrats are trying to railroad this down the throats of us, the American citizen, before there is any lengthy discussion of the total garbage included in, and the complete hypocrisy of this bill. Typical for the Democrat Party though, they have once again shown the American citizen how little they respect them by expressly writing Congress out of this bill, just like another disaster named Social Security. Even they know, while still writing it, that this proposal is complete trash. The Republicans are no better, scrambling to figure out how they can BENEFIT from this draconian change of power, rather than standing up to this ever growing tide of benevolent tyranny. An oppression obviously supported and endorsed because not only is there ZERO opposition being mounted to this blatant power grab, but when Republicans had majority control of both the Legislative and the Executive branches of government, their own spending skyrocketed. The only saving grace was that we had an economy that could absorb their gluttonous appetite for pork and payoffs, and that is no longer the case. The only real difference between the Republican and the Democratic Parties is the team mascot, and no matter which of the self-centered autocrats holds office, we, the hardworking, overburdened American taxpayer is always asked for more tithes from a selfish, uncaring government unwilling to ever do with less.
Both of the parties in this country are complete rubbish, and neither side seems to remember that we are in fact still a Republic. This means that YOU represent OUR will, rather than forcing your own selfrighteous will, paying off your campaign contributors, or keeping an ever growing portion of the population poor and under your thumb. Politicians are exactly like serial rapists. Please, let there be NO misinterpretation of that carefully chosen word, because that is EXACTLY what is being done to the American citizen, and neither party cares, they just take turns. Despite our best wishes, our hopes, our fears or our feelings; each of them sits on their petty little throne; dictating their self-serving mandates to us citizens, whom they claim to serve, and then tell us later, how it was "for our own good."
THIS IS NOT A BILL TO HELP, OR EMPOWER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. This is a bill about YOUR ego, and YOUR power. This is a bill to keep even more Americans under your servitude, in poverty and needy, so that you can forever create even more dependent voting blocks to keep you employed and in power. Nothing more and nothing less, but the sinister element is that you are trying to sell this as 'caring for people', but you, the professional politician, do not care, and you never will. It is slavery and bondage for the poor and for those unable to care for themselves at its heart. You politicians will NEVER give enough to people so that they can thrive, only enough to keep people in their place and dependent on you for more. Just like good little serfs should be. You will never allow any real independence from the voting blocks that NEED you. Because, if the needy had any real independence from you, they might start questioning WHY they need you, or IF they need you at all. This is a fact, pure and simple. It is how you control and enslave sections of the population, carving us out like portions of a Thanksgiving Day turkey. Look around us. Look at the 'War on Poverty' that congress has been fighting for the last 70 years. Today there are more people in that bracket than when it started. We even have multiple generations of people living in the same squallier and hopelessness, forced to seek dependence under the wing of a government that cares nothing for their problems or plight in life. Only that they show up and vote like good trained cattle on election d ay. Look at Social Security, the funds were voted by congress in the 80's to be pillaged, like a bunch of Conquistadors sacking Tenochtitlan, and now there is nothing but debt left. The whole program is a train wreck looking for a place to happen, there is nothing 'secure' about it, not after the vampires drained it dry of its cash solvency. Look at Medicare and Medicaid, and how it takes real people in need twice as long for services that are often not covered, has very high deductibles for people who can't afford to pay, and has such a history of low or no payments that doctors are discouraged from serving public patients. And you egomaniacs are cramming this NEW piece of filthy legislation, which will cripple the current system even more by cutting the meager benefits received, down our throats! Someone explain why our current broken system run by the nincompoops on Capital Hill needs to be expanded so that everyone has 'universally' the same worthless care? If Congress's successful track record was put under the same scrutiny that Wall Street was held accountable to; every single stinking person on the Hill would be locked in a cell with no door, which would be buried underneath a prison, that was in turn submerged under the sea. The real twisted and evil part is how politicians lie to the same people over and over, somehow convincing them that they are your friend, and have your best interests in mind. Nothing could be further from the truth. You, the political class are the enemy of freedom, individuality AND to the American citizen. This bill, H.R. 3200 is your crowning glory to solidify that statement. Even under a faltering economy, your only focus is to place an ever growing burden of new taxation on us, and this can only be for one evil goal; so that fewer people can provide for themselves and for their families. That's pretty typical for the bullies that you are though, whenever you are faced with budgetary cuts, you will always grab the poor, the elderly and the children to toss under the bus, rather than cut your pet pork projects to payoff your high dollar donors. This time, we had a new addition under the bus, when Governor Schwarzenegger took it even one step further by threatening to release criminals back into the streets, rather than face the fact that the bloated bureaucracy of his state cannot maintain itself. This is nothing more than civilized extortion, "pay my taxes or ELSE..." I'm sick of this. I'm sick that we proud and hard working Americans are forced to come and shelter under your protection. To be under your thumb, slaves in a glass prison to you, the would-be masters. At one point I would have just thought you were completely irresponsible, like some unemployed teenage punk with daddy's credit card running wild in town while the adults have to pick up the tab. But there is too deep and too long a history of failures and excuses that effervescence from Capitol Hill, and the track record would really seem to indicate that it is not, in fact, run by a group of well intentioned but completely incompetent people; but rather from a group that understands that when the governed have to look to the government for their very basic of needs: food, shelter, medicine, that you have complete control of their lives. If I am wrong, show me. Show me the real living success stories of how any government run program ever in the history of America has brought the ability for people inside to grow and prosper, and I'll say I was wrong and be the first to sign up. But it does not exist any more than a snipe in the woods. It is never a program, but only an INDIVIDUAL, working hard and focusing on becoming better that has ever risen from the depths of poverty to achieve greatness and freedom in their life, a fact made more difficult every year by the obstructions created from our keepers. Self determination promotes prosperity. Programs are bondage, but any determined individual can rise from the pit like a phoenix from the ashes to greatness. There are too many famous American people of EVERY sex, color and background that have risen to become great to prove anything other than that.
But you are more than just would-be masters, you are unadulterated liars. Your track record in this is even longer. Just look at the records of the Congressional Budget Office, a cornerstone for the proposal on H.R. 3200, and you will see a trail of complete lies, and smokescreens. There is no budget EVER in its history that has been projected correct. Congress is trying to sell the astronomical cost of this program through an organization that has worse track record than John Gochnaur of the Cleveland Indians. But should it surprise any citizen really? How many outright lies have come from, and continue to come from both parties? From Nancy Pelosi and her abject lies about her knowledge of the treatment of detainees and interrogation practices, to George Bush Sr.'s famous "read my lips, no new taxes" farce, it seems the only way anyone can tell if they are lying is by the movement of their lips. Chappaquiddick ring a bell with anyone? How about the lie called The Contract with America, which vowed to pull back the veil of an ever expanding government ,and return the control of your life into your hands. Those liars could not even vote themselves term limits. But that is the era of the professional politician for you: the butchers of truth, and the betrayers of hope.
After all it was in fact none other than the professional Republican politician that single handedly killed Conservatism, and the same professional politician that will doom it to failure again and again. The Keystone of Conservatism, and smaller governments, requires that politicians vote for less intrusive laws, and that a fundamental shift of responsibility be placed back on the individual. A professional politician would never do that, they simply cannot. How could they hope to stay in power by eroding the very things that keep them in power? That is why you will find no hope for change for the future direction of our country in the Republican Party. EVER. You can never trust, or put your hopes in a professional politician any more than you are willing to trust your heart to a common streetwalker.
There is a very simple reason why they can get away with this: party hatred. The current two party system has gotten Americans so worked up with venom and spite, for the one supposed opposition to their beliefs, that we have all been duped in a smokescreen and failed to see the TRUE enemy: the professional politician. Think I'm not telling the truth, can you see Rush Limbaugh vote for any Democrat other than Zeb Miller? Could you in your wildest fantasy imagine Jessie Jackson vote for any Republican, ever? This is not an indictment of the character of either of these two men, but rather a Truth that is shared. We have all done it. How many times have you thought that the only reason you voted the way you did, was because you were voting AGAINST the other candidate, rather than in support FOR the one you chose. Hate of the only other party ideology around has blinded us all to this truth. Both sides want you to "blame the other guy", so that neither side will ever face the ramifications for THEIR decisions. But I think there is something else, something bigger than just hate that we have all been ignoring for far too long. The system is broken. It is broken because we are cursed with a freedom loving, and independent nature.
You see, we are a nation that was founded on the premise of many things including Lockian ideals. Some of these ideals include: that God had given the Earth to all of mankind, and that there is equality in ALL persons inherent by that gift of God. Another ideal is that each of us has the "natural human right" to pursue our lives to the fullest as we see fit, providing that we do not trample the rights of others in our personal pursuits. This framework not only helped to write our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, but also the two governments we founded afterward, the latter being our current Constitution. We Americans possess the freedom to become more than what we were born into, and we have the independent right to pursue that which we desire. Those two elements, freedom and independence blended together create something special: the uniqueness of the individual.
This uniqueness of each and every one of us is incompatible with our current bicameral party political system. How could it ever hope to be? How could a system that has only two choices ever represent each person? It simply cannot. We are too individual, too unique, too big to fit into the narrow molds created by this system, or by the parties. Look inside each of the party walls and you can see small fractured groups bickering at each other, unified only for their despise of "the other guy", or worse, the fear of having to go and fight the good fight alone. Our uniqueness as individuals is completely inconsistent with only two choices, and NEITHER could ever really represent any portion of our population accurately.
That is why everyone is completely disgusted today, do you vote the A's or the B's; when the truth is that your selection is comprised entirely by either an A-hole or a B-head, and no matter which one you choose they both stink. Even CNN would have a hard time spinning that truth. Both sides are unpalatable and hold no interest because there is no representation for the populace, and that in turn breeds disinterest in politics. If our government was run like a retail organization, there would be a line from Washington D.C. to Seattle and back again with people looking for a refund. And the thought of a refund from that group of dictatorial know-it-all's is laughable.
Our keepers don't even give us a choice, IF we would want to CHOOSE to participate in their hair brained schemes or not, let alone the choice to have our hard earned tax dollars taken out for something we do not believe in and have no control over. They just take our money for their own self interests regardless of whether a program merits a failure, or an abject failure status, and then they come back for more. This is why more Americans would rather watch Dancing with the Stars than pay three minutes of attention to any one of the 435 members of Congress prattle on about ANYTHING. But disinterested populations breed apathy and apathy is the killer of our freedom, independence and individuality. That stink that comes from politics is in fact a rotting corpse called the Republic, because 'we the people' stopped caring.
And this is our world today.
But WE do have a choice, and there is a civil and correct way to take our society and our future back from the malevolent hands of the fools who currently sway influence and rule the law in this country. It is by the complete destruction of the bicameral party system that has utterly failed the people. Only by the complete demise of the two behemoth parties into smaller groups, of more like minded individuals, who have a greater loyalty, and a narrower, clearly defined focus for their supporters, can things change. In other words, open the government process and both political camps to the same force that runs the Free Market: competition. Forcing the fracture of the two juggernauts will bring something new into politics that has not been seen in generations. Loyalty to those you represent. Imagine that, politicians that actually care about you, your thoughts, and about the services you receive from them, because there is competition for your vote. It would be, refreshing.
Wouldn't it be such a release for people like Sonia Sotomayor to finally have to stop hiding behind false niceties and just stand up and tell the truth about the way she feels, and WHY for a change? The truth will set you free, right? America is only one of a few places in this world where that statement is true, and still is, despite the attempts of sabotage from our keepers, the world's best hope for tomorrow. Our amazing society allows enough tolerance for people, at complete odds with each other, to co-exist in the same space, and NOT try killing each other on a daily basis. What Rodney King asked during the third day of the Los Angeles riots in an attempt to calm racial turmoil, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" I will answer simply, no. We can't, there is no way that we will all be able to get along together, ever. But that's OK. It's OK for us to be different, to be special, and to be ourselves. We have spent far too many years under the gestalt of Political Correctness and its desire to erase the concept of the individual through the process of homogenizing the vocabulary, but trust me. Be yourself. There are far too many current lies perpetrated by the masters to not force me to answer this fully, so let me shed some light on this. Not all whites are the same. It's an amazing concept I know, but it's true. Take these men: Andy Dick and Jerry Falwell, and now tell me that these two have some kind of similarity. I think not. But it's not just whites, blacks have the same depth and diversity. Kevin Aviance and Usher may both be singers, but their similarities end there. We as humans, are more than either our skin, or the genitals between our legs, makes us. Only by judging an individual for their actions, rather than by their appearance can liberty be insured, but a judgment must be done. I have forever carried in my heart the words Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." That dream is not ours today. Ours is still a world of promotion based on color, or sex and governed by people that are not ruled by the laws they create. But we can take it back by embracing our individual uniqueness, and finding people that celebrate it with us, rather than forcing us to crowd in a mold of conformity.
Please, let me be the first to cry that the emperor has no clothes by saying our current President's administration is complete and total garbage, and it's not because he's black, I say this because he's nothing more than a typical, self exalting professional politician at heart. He has stabbed blindly at real and important issues, thus creating more problems today than were there before he got involved. And rather than stopping long enough to focus on the OUTCOMES of his decisions, he just keeps medaling in everything looking for ways to insure his legacy. He is a common, run-of-the-mill, professional politician, and the harbinger of nothing good for any American citizen.
As I have said: judge an individual by their actions, rather than from the gilded words from a team a talented speech writers, and you will see that there is nothing really different from Tom Daschle, to Newt Gingrich or from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. They are all petty little tyrants who are trying to control every aspect of our lives. Doubt me? Why are they talking about taxing fast food, sodas and fatty foods, if for no other reason so they can dictate to you what to choose, and for punishing your choices if it's something THEY don't approve of? They did it for tobacco, alcohol, and soon it will be over something YOU care about. They might be from different parties, and claim different sets of beliefs, but the proof is in their actions, and they are all professional politicians, the enemy of your individualism.
It's a sad realization to come to, that the system we have all grown up with is in fact the reason that we are all dissatisfied. Though times have changed, human nature never has, and it's time to embrace our bright and shining future as free Americans, rather than cling to the empty shell of historical significance. There is so much potential for positive, and real growth it cannot be ignored. So let me ask you who read this a rhetorical question: Why do you grovel under the table, for the scraps and crumbs that fall, when you could be pulling up a seat at the banquet? To the Black Caucus: why don't you stop hiding in the shadows of the Democrats and stand up, it's your turn to be center stage, if you're ready to walk into the lime light. The blacks in this country have given America some incredible innovations and gifts, including the single greatest cultural influence that America has ever produced: Jazz. You should not have to ASK the Democrats for anything. Own your destiny; America is ready and willing to follow any man or woman of any color who is worthy to lead us. To the Unions: why do you insist on spending hundreds of millions of dollars in member dues getting Democrats elected, who never really help out the Union or it's members? How's that repeal of NAFTA coming? Not well? Well that's not surprising; we have all seen how well it worked out for you in Detroit. A fact you will be reminded when America starts importing Chinese cars. Why don't you just grow a set, and form your own party that actually looks after its members rather than panders to the lies of the professional politician, after all isn't that one of the whole points of a Union? To you religious focused conservatives laying in anguish, and leaderless in the Republican camp: you will never find a professional politician that's going to care about your morals or your God, just about your money. Take it back. Take all of it, and form your own party of righteous God-fearing followers, and show this country how REAL men and women of God live and work and love in this world, rather than the adulterous thieves that lead you in the Republican Party now. To the Gays and Lesbians: stop thinking that any professional politician will help you unless it helps themselves first. Be proud of yourselves, and make a party that will care about, support and fight, for who you are. To the Environmentalists: your cause will get mowed down, and any law necessary will be repealed if it ever endangered a professional politician's chance for re-election. The economy will always take precedence over your beliefs, and do not believe otherwise. Unless you are willing and able to defend your ideology directly, everything you have gained, you will loose when the chips are down. How about you Free Market supporters in both parties? Those who judge success by the Return On Investment, or by the economic impact that the windbags on Capital Hill have on your wallet. Why do you insist on continued support and contributions for a group of people that have no qualm taxing you, me, and every business into bankruptcy in this country? Where is the profit in that? There is NO long term profitability for individual investors in a government run economy. Form a Free Market Party to promote strong business growth, entrepreneurship and tax cuts, because the professional politician will destroy the economy to keep their own personal power.
Let this letter be a statement, a sounding board of things to come. Of a new and fresh idea of what America WILL become, and greatness we have yet to achieve. An unimaginable hope for tomorrow and a better world for us today, our children and the future generations we have yet to inspire. Fear of change will only mean that you are willing to let others determine your fate. In life change may be the only constant, but we can choose to make it a good change for once. Do not let the pundits in life blind you hearts to this truth. Remember this always about them: it requires neither courage nor creative thought when you criticize from afar, and have nothing to bring to the table of discussion, except the word NO. There is still hope for today and for tomorrow. Hope is a dangerous word though, one of the most dangerous in the English language. Without faith you see, hope will die in its promise. I have no faith in our so-called leaders. Actually, I have less than zero faith, and I cannot even pretend to go through the motions anymore. But, I have faith in YOU, and I don't even know you, but I do know the Human Spirit you possess. I know that you are capable of amazing and awe inspiring wonders. You, the individual, capable of incredible love, generosity and compassion. You, the individual, ready and willing to live life to the fullest and pursue new and exciting challenges. You, the individual, who is willing to care and provide for not just your family, but look after others, even if you do not live with great excess. You, the individual, with your big heart, your big dreams, and your hunger for life. I do have faith in that, and that my fellow citizens, is why I do in fact have a great and never-ending hope for everyday. I have faith in you to live your dreams, and embrace a destiny that allows you to grow into something larger and better than you ever thought possible. Faith, that by each of us digging deep into our souls and finding our own unique path to travel, even though our paths might eventually part one from another, we can still thrive and love life. Faith, that we can in fact find unity in our diversity, because we have peace in our hearts with ourselves, rather than an enforced pacification through propaganda, where only the jailers are happy. Only we, the freedom loving, ruggedly independent and unique individuals in this incredible country are capable of this. Though our potential might have tarnished under the velvet prison we are forced to submit to, its light still shines bright. It is innate in our very fiber, and an undeniable part of our human equation, as unique as laughter or compassion. It is not lost; it lives in the hopes and dreams of each of us, fighting to live life to its fullest. That fight, and our struggles, can bring the brightest tomorrow ever written into being, and that is still within our grasp. So I ask you, my countrymen: are you willing to grab that tiger by the tail and see where it goes?
I have faith you will.
I am writing and sending this letter to three groups of people. First to my completely worthless Senators and Congressman: Richard Burr, Kay R. Hagen and Heath Schuler respectively. May each of you be jobless after the next election, and may the coming change of the concept of the Republic sweep your name into the trash where it belongs, and may you live a long life and see your place in history smashed into dust.
I am sending this letter also to news organizations, though I feel it will fall on deft ears and blind eyes. The hate for the parties runs very deep in those institutions, and real truth is often just a speed bump for a media that is more interested in being a part of the affair, rather than being the referee, but one can dream. Perhaps this will be published, but as it stands today, I think very few would be willing to do so. It was the dream of our forefathers to have a press that was a terror to the political machine and to hold elected officials honest, yet it seems that our current press is more often than not a cheerleader, while claiming impartiality. This is why it looses market share everyday. People respect honesty, even if they don't agree with it. Be bias and be honest with yourself and your readers, people will always respond to those that champion causes openly and honestly. Perhaps in the coming evolution, the obvious party affiliations and old hatreds of the press will finally be broken, and the media will again embrace this concept of honesty and openness in their personal bias. Impartiality is impossible in the human spirit if you TRULY care. Besides, greater truths in life are often found where you did not expect them, and when competing ideas are debated in a public forum, society can find those truths. It would be a dark day for us all if the current trend either destroyed entirely, or doomed to irrelevance, such potential as that which can be found in the public forums we call the press, but debate and discussion is vital to the human experience, and it will show itself in our society in one form or another.
Finally, I am sending this letter to my friends, family, and people that I have worked with, in the hope that if you read this and find its value and merit, that you in turn send it to all your friends, families, co-workers, and yes your congressmen. It is my hope that you, those closest to me, will take these honest words to heart, and send this letter to everyone you can. There is an option, an alternative, to the direction we are going, and it is not impossible to achieve. I am but one single man in this world, a very small and insignificant thing at best. But, like a single stone cast into a calm pond, my life and my words can create a ripple, to move and effect the bigger world, and that ripple can change the outcome for everyone. Please, if you find merit in this, do not discard it like trash, and do not miss THIS time, and THIS day, to begin the change. Cast your stone with me. Look at the names you hold dear, and send this letter to them. But do not forget to send this to the most important people: your two Senators, and your House Representative. Let them see the writing on the wall, and understand that we, the American citizen, are done with them. FOREVER. Finding them, is convenient. This web address: http://www.congress.org , is "the official" place to find out who has failed to represent you, let not the irony of the website escape you please. Type in your zip code and get their contact information, then forward them this letter, and if it pleases you, your thoughts as well, but do not expect a response from them. It is time that we Americans took back our future, not just in the vote, but in the blood of politics, the money. The dismemberment of the party system internally begins with taking back your money, and your campaign contributions. Hit the professional politicians where it hurts them the most, in the wallet. David slew Goliath with but a single, simple, WELL PLACED stone. If you take your money back, and begin to look for or even to help form NEW parties that would speak for you, Goliath will fall and freedom will return.
My name is Jonathan Karie Ayers, and I will not go gentle into that good night. I invite you, my friends, my fellow citizens, stand beside me and help to turn the crashing tide of darkness, to help restore American greatness, and make this land of opportunity prosperous once again. Hope is not lost. The true Golden Age of America has not yet been written, and it is time for us to put our childhood toys aside and embrace a destiny greater, with more potential and promise, than any we have yet to imagine. ????