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Had to post this.... a letter to the President
13 years ago
General
I had seen this in a story Drudge Report had done, and this was a comment left by a fellow reader.
I will post the very same letter, word for word, which I think is brilliant, and speaks at how I feel.
*****
I consider myself an Independent voter, as I am not a Donkey, or an Elephant in politics. What I think overall would be considered so bizarre it would be laughable.
(What I wish would happen, is for me to get a big enough cutting saw, and remove Washington DC from the USA and let it go adrift away from our lands, I think the career politicians there in Wash DC are so corrupt, they are out of touch with the rest of the USA.)
. . .
Captain Chaos . . .
September 7, 2010
Dear Captain Chaos AKA President Barrack Obama,
Reading your last economic address reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Cannonball Run. In this movie, a merry band of lead foot drivers blast from one coast to the other wreaking havoc upon the nations roads; kind of like liberal democrats and the body politic. Back to Captain Chaos. This fellow had a mental disorder that he would soothe by putting on a costume and taking on a presumably difficult task. Thus, I crown you, Captain Chaos. The honor comes with a cape, funky boots, and of course a speedo. I recommend you only wear the speedo in private, as it may make a NY Times reporter pass out and the rest of us puke. So the next time you are going to deliver a speech that frankly no one cares a lick about, just step up to the microphone and scream out, “Captain Chaos to the rescue!” At which point the citizens of this great nation will then be on notice to take cover, and use extreme caution.
Let’s take the healthcare bill that my representative John Hall voted in favor of. This is one piece of legislated chaos an order of magnitude higher that would make a Nazi proud. We don’t need death camps, we need chaos and confusion, as doctors and patients wait to die, or die from waiting, a unionized bureaucrat will be there with form 42-B to inform the concurrent parties that the Tylenol that is so desperately needed will not be available until next weeks allocation comes through the factory - which is on strike because the unions think they are underpaid, and the lawyer that is needed to fill out the waiver for the Tylenol is on sabbatical studying yoga. Cogito ergo sum Chaos!
Now let’s take financial reform. I have been investing and dealing with money in a mostly responsible way my whole life. Like most people I strive to learn from my mistakes. Like that first year at ASU, that should have been my first year in the Air Force, when that broad in the tight t-shirt, with Citibank emblazoned across you know what, asked me if I wanted a credit card, I said “how many can I get?” I promptly used that card to buy everything I was not supposed to. I made the monthly minimums on time and in cash with the odd jobs I picked up while at school. By the time the summer rolled around I was doing three to four jobs to cover the bill, but I did it. Is the Congress and are you, Mr. Obama, telling me that grown people are incapable of understanding that they are going to have to pay for what they buy, and if they don’t they will be charged interest. Are you all nuts? Don’t answer that. I know the answer. Recently you signed the Financial Regulatory Reform Act, that would among other nasty things, increase the minutia that a borrower would be faced with and create a higher burden for the companies to raise rates on borrowers; in short you are treating adults like children, and this will only lead to more chaos, and not to mention less credit.
You see Captain Chaos Obama, We The People, get to vote last, while you get to bully us when ever you desire with or without the cape and the funky boots. I am well aware that your ilk has been maneuvering in chaotic fashion to make each vote not about forming a more perfect union, but about administering to the government induced chaos; and the last election, like trained seals, people voted for Democrats, wrongly thinking that they are better at managing the chaos. We The People, are coming to the conclusion that the ordered chaos that evolves out of the free market is far more desirable than the one that the federal government manufactures, with the willing help of unions, via pitting one economic class, or one race against another. We The People are coming to the conclusion that we would rather have a hospital room and insurance at some price, than none at any price, we would rather have a seat on a flight at some price than none at any price, we would rather have a Big Mac at some price than none at any price, we would rather have credit at some price than none at any price; and so on for everything we rely on to lead our modern, and productive lives.
On November 6, 2012 - we will be choosing a new President that understand all of this and is willing to represent these convictions with authority.
Respectfully,
Joe D.
*****
Again brilliantly written
Kimonoskunk
I will post the very same letter, word for word, which I think is brilliant, and speaks at how I feel.
*****
I consider myself an Independent voter, as I am not a Donkey, or an Elephant in politics. What I think overall would be considered so bizarre it would be laughable.
(What I wish would happen, is for me to get a big enough cutting saw, and remove Washington DC from the USA and let it go adrift away from our lands, I think the career politicians there in Wash DC are so corrupt, they are out of touch with the rest of the USA.)
. . .
Captain Chaos . . .
September 7, 2010
Dear Captain Chaos AKA President Barrack Obama,
Reading your last economic address reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Cannonball Run. In this movie, a merry band of lead foot drivers blast from one coast to the other wreaking havoc upon the nations roads; kind of like liberal democrats and the body politic. Back to Captain Chaos. This fellow had a mental disorder that he would soothe by putting on a costume and taking on a presumably difficult task. Thus, I crown you, Captain Chaos. The honor comes with a cape, funky boots, and of course a speedo. I recommend you only wear the speedo in private, as it may make a NY Times reporter pass out and the rest of us puke. So the next time you are going to deliver a speech that frankly no one cares a lick about, just step up to the microphone and scream out, “Captain Chaos to the rescue!” At which point the citizens of this great nation will then be on notice to take cover, and use extreme caution.
Let’s take the healthcare bill that my representative John Hall voted in favor of. This is one piece of legislated chaos an order of magnitude higher that would make a Nazi proud. We don’t need death camps, we need chaos and confusion, as doctors and patients wait to die, or die from waiting, a unionized bureaucrat will be there with form 42-B to inform the concurrent parties that the Tylenol that is so desperately needed will not be available until next weeks allocation comes through the factory - which is on strike because the unions think they are underpaid, and the lawyer that is needed to fill out the waiver for the Tylenol is on sabbatical studying yoga. Cogito ergo sum Chaos!
Now let’s take financial reform. I have been investing and dealing with money in a mostly responsible way my whole life. Like most people I strive to learn from my mistakes. Like that first year at ASU, that should have been my first year in the Air Force, when that broad in the tight t-shirt, with Citibank emblazoned across you know what, asked me if I wanted a credit card, I said “how many can I get?” I promptly used that card to buy everything I was not supposed to. I made the monthly minimums on time and in cash with the odd jobs I picked up while at school. By the time the summer rolled around I was doing three to four jobs to cover the bill, but I did it. Is the Congress and are you, Mr. Obama, telling me that grown people are incapable of understanding that they are going to have to pay for what they buy, and if they don’t they will be charged interest. Are you all nuts? Don’t answer that. I know the answer. Recently you signed the Financial Regulatory Reform Act, that would among other nasty things, increase the minutia that a borrower would be faced with and create a higher burden for the companies to raise rates on borrowers; in short you are treating adults like children, and this will only lead to more chaos, and not to mention less credit.
You see Captain Chaos Obama, We The People, get to vote last, while you get to bully us when ever you desire with or without the cape and the funky boots. I am well aware that your ilk has been maneuvering in chaotic fashion to make each vote not about forming a more perfect union, but about administering to the government induced chaos; and the last election, like trained seals, people voted for Democrats, wrongly thinking that they are better at managing the chaos. We The People, are coming to the conclusion that the ordered chaos that evolves out of the free market is far more desirable than the one that the federal government manufactures, with the willing help of unions, via pitting one economic class, or one race against another. We The People are coming to the conclusion that we would rather have a hospital room and insurance at some price, than none at any price, we would rather have a seat on a flight at some price than none at any price, we would rather have a Big Mac at some price than none at any price, we would rather have credit at some price than none at any price; and so on for everything we rely on to lead our modern, and productive lives.
On November 6, 2012 - we will be choosing a new President that understand all of this and is willing to represent these convictions with authority.
Respectfully,
Joe D.
*****
Again brilliantly written
Kimonoskunk
My Health Insurance has gone offline as well, and so has my family.
And with me being unemployable now, I have to try to get assistance somehow just to survive.
(*See next post as to why I am unemployable atm*)
For me to go to therapy, even in my 1995 Ford Escort, with a 12 gallon tank, will cost me nearly $45.00 to fill, which will last me just over 270 miles.
Go to therapy 3xs a week, go to docs and attorney's 2xs a month, and go to the Social Security office multiple times to try to get on SSDI and then try to get Medicade going in Thorndale has been an absolute Joke.
I could go thru a tank of gas doing all the driving I do in 4 days. And with me being the only bread winner for now, I can't afford the gas.
So am I better off since Obama took office? No, and I didn't vote for him in 2008 either.
Kimonoskunk
The only difference is that Obama's initiatives screwed you by incompetence, while the Republican approach would screw you deliberatly in tribute to the Almighty God of the Free Market. They oppose social security on ideological grounds, and would happily let you starve as you are clearly too lazy to work, in their view. You can get screwed in different ways by different people, but in the end you're screwed either way.