Instead of a tea bag....

Dear Mr Obama
I am not mailing a tea bag as it would be thrown away when it went through security. I doubt you’d care any way.

I am equally sure that since this letter does not praise you OR whine about my Aunt Minnie not having all the money she thinks she is owed, that you will not read this. So- to the mail screener at the White House – this is for you.

If I make 250K, but have bought a bigger house or a new car or something to celebrate, I will now have more expenses- expenses that PUT MONEY in someone’s hands who runs a business or sells me gas or gets my property taxes (for children I do NOT have who will never use the school system).
Why does that make me a target? Why do I need to owe YOU any more of my expendable income just because I have that bottom line on my W2.

You are stealing my money and the financial future of the next generation, despite what your teleprompter tells you to say. And if someone does NOT pay any tax, then THEY ARE ON WELFARE- because they are using the roads, schools, projects and things that MY taxes pay for. Why is THAT a good thing? As any landlord can tell you, when housing is cheap to rent, pretty soon the renters do not respect it. The same is for the country- when you don’t sacrifice a dime, it’s all cheap to you.

I am ashamed of what you have let Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi do.

I am ashamed that so much faith was put in your abilities, despite your glaring inexperience, and that you have abused the tax paying citizens so badly.

I am ashamed that we are letting YOU and your cronies and the idiots in the Senate bring our great country down and saddle it with debt because you believe in theoretical economics rather than giving our country a chance to regroup.

As for health care- I am a RN with a Master’s degree. I have been an assistant professor. I have worked in charity hospitals. You should be talking to people like ME for advice- not some academicians and economists who truly have never worked in a hospital a DAY in their lives.

It is useless to send you this as you are protected by the savvy remnants of the Clinton machine. I thought you had more sense than that.

You will go down in history as the worst president since Jimmy Carter. And yes, I was alive and a voter when Carter’s sorry self was voted in. We are still paying the price for his stupidity. We are a nation of states- not just a nation. I don’t want to pay for things in other states unless they are for federal use- like the interstate system, disaster relief or defense sites. NOTHING ELSE. I don't see a purpose in sending money abroad any more. We are no longer a world power with money to spare. Besides, we drain money into dictatorships where no one benefits but the rulers.

Shame on you for punishing the hard working people who start businesses and take the risk and expense of actually HIRING people. You undermine the heart and spirit of America by doing so.

I am just bereft over the loss of America. You and the arrogant nitwits in Congress are destroying us more every day.

What a shame that you will be remembered in history with such a sad legacy. You could put in a flat tax where everyone pays something. You could put in a VAT. BUT NO- that would be too easy. Too simple for everyone. It would put the tax lawyers and CPA’s out of business- and those lawyers are your friends, no? And when do we get LEGAL INSURANCE for free? Guess you and your buddies wouldn’t want that either. Just screw the doctors instead. And every day, you sign bills with pork in them.

A person who is a concerned citizen,...(I signed my real name).