An Open Letter to Our New President

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An Open Letter to Our New President

By Doug Patton

February 2, 2009



Dear Mr. President:



Recently, you stated that: “There will be a time for profits…Now is not that time.” Not since you made Joe the most famous plumber in America by telling him (and all of us) that you wanted to “spread the wealth around” have you been so transparent about your attitude toward the private sector.



You complain about “excessive” CEO salaries and bonuses. And I must admit that it strains credulity to imagine the chutzpah it takes for some of these companies to engage in such indulgences with both hands outstretched to the federal government for bailout dollars in numbers most of us can’t even comprehend. It is unseemly at best to watch these jackals presiding over companies that are hemorrhaging buckets of red ink while they fly off into the sunset in their corporate jets with their golden parachutes — paid for by American taxpayers.



Unfortunately, the same rules don’t seem to apply to you and your cohorts in government. You have an equally arrogant, cavalier attitude toward the hard-working Americans who pay for your salary and your extravagant lifestyle. And you don’t seem to play by the rules you create for the rest of us. Your new treasury secretary cheated on his taxes and yet was confirmed to oversee the Internal Revenue Service. Your nominee to run the health and human services department is the poster boy for limousine liberals who don’t even pay for their limousines — or at least not the taxes they owe on them. And your attorney general believes in pardons for terrorists and tax cheats.



Meanwhile, you and your Democrat Congress act as though the revenue you are using for your pork-laden bailouts and so-called stimulus packages just grew on the money tree in the back yard at the White House and is yours to do with as you see fit. Well, let me remind you of something, Mr. President: that money you are doling out is money my great-grandchildren haven’t even earned yet. It is tax revenue your successor five presidents down the line will have to steal from them in order to pay for this madness.



The saddest thing about this whole scenario, Mr. President, is that you are killing the one entity in our society that is actually creating jobs. Any high school Economics 101 teacher can tell you that in good economic times, 75 percent of new jobs in this country are created by small, independently-owned businesses. In times like these, when corporate America is slashing workforces like mad, that number is 100 percent!



And yet who gets the bailouts? Joe the Plumber or Sam’s Handyman Service, who eek out a living trying to find enough work to keep themselves and one or two employees afloat? No, it’s Citibank and the bloated auto industry. We’re told that they are “too big to fail.”



Well, let me tell you something, Mr. President. Granted, it would be a pretty big ripple through the economy if General Motors went under. But if you put every small entrepreneur in this country out of business, our economy, as we know it, will be gone.



Mr. President, small business owners are being crushed by a largely hysteria-created recession. Their credit has been cut off because of the irresponsible behavior of Members of Congress and the greed of some on Wall Street. These entrepreneurs aren’t asking for a bailout. They just want you and your bloated, obstructionist government to get out of their way!



Not the time for profits, indeed! With all due respect, this is precisely the time when businesses need profits.



But then, the ignorant souls who voted for you — many of whom don’t even pay taxes — have so wrapped yourselves in victim status and class envy that they are cheering you on as their new Fairness Czar; so I guess I don’t expect you to listen to me. I won’t have a real say in the matter again until the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2012. See you then.



Respectfully,


Doug Patton

An American taxpayer

only ps I would add is Barry please have your friends pay there taxes

[rushmc 23]

Attach it as a word doc so we can add our own names and addresses and then we can mail it out too

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Why does that not surprise me at all.

[billvon 3,006]

>Why does that not surprise me at all.

Plagarism - it's not just for GOP bloggers any more!

[Skyrad 0]

He won, get over it.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[funjumper101 15]

Righties are trying to pass off a pathetic joke of a letter as something that is a useful contribution to the world? I know that they are comprehension challenged, but this one is hysterical.

The bailouts were done under the PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.

The valiant defenders of the small businessmen, the REPUBLICANS!? You have got to be shitting me.

The current stimulous package under debate has been voted against 100% by Republicans, because it DOESN"T DO ENOUGH FOR BIG BUSINESS.

A perfect example here of just how STUPID righties are. Can't even keep straight which politicians are responsible for what screwup. Blame Democrats. They are at fault for everything. The Rescum mantra. Say over and over long enough and the gullible BELIEVE!!!

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>Why does that not surprise me at all.

Plagarism - it's not just for GOP bloggers any more!

I would hope for more original thought in GOP efforts while they are trying so desparately to block the new Administrations effots in fixing the deep messes the GOP has made of our economy and national prestige

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OK, I'm sorry, this post is just as over the top as some of the (admittedly worse-spelled) over-the-top right-wing ones.

Which means that the lefties will ignore it as part of the noise, and the righties will take it as indicative of the mass of lefties.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Source; http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dpatton/

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The current stimulous package under debate has been voted against 100% by Republicans, because it DOESN"T DO ENOUGH FOR BIG BUSINESS.

No it was voted against because it was a bad bill loaded with pork. Only those that drink barry-aid would think it was a good idea

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>No it was voted against because it was a bad bill loaded with pork.

Uh, it's all pork. That's basically what an economic stimulus package is - pork that gets industry restarted more rapidly.

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>No it was voted against because it was a bad bill loaded with pork.

Uh, it's all pork. That's basically paying off 40 years of IOW's the Dems owe their special interest groups.

There, I fixed it for you.

And this is fun thread!!!!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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OK, I'm sorry, this post is just as over the top as some of the (admittedly worse-spelled) over-the-top right-wing ones.

Which means that the lefties will ignore it as part of the noise, and the righties will take it as indicative of the mass of lefties.

Wendy W.

And all those years of calling Bush a liar and worse were not over the top .... right!!?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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I'm not saying that, John. And I don't want to play martian-reading games.

I was not saying this was the first over-the-top post I'd ever seen.

And, personally, I think Bush knew what he really wanted to hear, and made sure that he heard it. That's lying to one's self.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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And, personally, I think Bush knew what he really wanted to hear, and made sure that he heard it. That's lying to one's self.

Wendy W.

You are going to have to explain this one, since you are blowing my other point off

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,453]

No, I answered that directly, but you didn't quote it. That was not what I was saying. I can explain in laborious detail if you'd like, at which point it'll get picked to meaninglessness.

Over the top is more a matter of approach vs. content. George Will talking about the many failings of liberals is rarely (if ever) over the top. Michael Savage is nearly always over the top. George Will backs up his assertions with content. Michael Savage backs his up with bile and emotion.

That's my opinion.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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only ps I would add is Barry please have your friends pay there their taxes

Sorry, but I have this pet peeve about the proper use of there, their, and they're. Basic English learned by most in 3rd grade.



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HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

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I think Bush knew what he really wanted to hear, and made sure that he heard it. That's lying to one's self.

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Wendy, this is the part I want to understand.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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only ps I would add is Barry please have your friends pay there their taxes

Sorry, but I have this pet peave about the proper use of there, their, and they're. Basic English learned by most in 3rd grade.

I have this pet peeve about the proper use of peeve.

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Fixed it

HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the
object we are trying to hit.

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And, personally, I think Bush knew what he really wanted to hear, and made sure that he heard it. That's lying to one's self.

Wendy W.

You are going to have to explain this one, since you are blowing my other point off

No.... Marc..... its you emulating your former President... and being incapable of hearing anything that diverges from what Lush RimJob and George Bush tell you... which is all YOU want to hear

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only ps I would add is Barry please have your friends pay there their taxes

Sorry, but I have this pet peeve about the proper use of there, their, and they're. Basic English learned by most in 3rd grade.



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DUDE.. around here it's not important to them.. or didn't you get that memo. It's all about blaming and placing fault on the LIBERALS who run the NEA and have not educated all those poor "conservatives" out there.

THEY'RE not going to use THEIR fingers THERE on THEIR computers because the brains driving them are disengaged.

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Sorry, but I have this pet peeve about the proper use of there, their, and they're. Basic English learned by most in 3rd grade.

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He won, get over it.

Sure thing, just like how y'all "got over it" in 2000 and 2004.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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yea see what happens when you go to public school and they want to teach socialism instead of english