That was offensive to me. I really don't want, I REALLY don't want political crap in my email. I ask that whoever moderates this group remove me from this list. I have tried to remove myself from this list before, but it's impossible. Offending people was why the original Yahoo group failed. IT IS NOT SUPPORTIVE! Please get this list out of my email.
Kristin L. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 13, 2013, at 3:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's Topic Summary > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/cmlhope/topics > > Fw: Fwd: 9-28 A Dying Senior Citizen Tells It Like It Is [2 Updates] > Fw: Fwd: 9-28 A Dying Senior Citizen Tells It Like It Is > DAWN RODEGHIER <[email protected]> Oct 12 07:50PM -0700 > > > Food for thought > > > > Subject: A Dying Senior Citizen Tells It Like It Is > > >A Dying > Senior Citizen Tells It Like It Is... > > >This is well written! > > >It > will be well worth the two minutes it requires to read this. It is quite > impressive. > > >You can be Republican, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, > Independent or Libertarian and I bet this will hit a nerve. Our country is in > real trouble. > > >This gentleman is obviously quite smarter than the two > senators he sent it to. All I can say is amen to everything he said. A very > articulate letter sent to the two U.S.Senators from WashingtonState. > >Washington, DC, 20510 > > >Dear Senator: > > >I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a > Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses > shortly > after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt > important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of our > various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked hard, > volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts. > > >Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look > at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things > abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculated > that all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even > keep > the Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped > actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. So > please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us. > > >Last year, the president > spent an estimated $1.4 billion on himself and his family. The vice president > spends $ millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so far this year! And > our House of Representatives and Senate have become America's answer to the > Saudi royal family. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of > our country. > > >In the middle of the night, you voted in > the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. "Obama Care," a bill which no more > than > a handful of senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, > crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it, > substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance. > > >You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one > percenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while > >making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing > while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to > sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, > anyway). > > >You understand very well the only two rules you need to know > - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with > the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a > certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the > ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom > do vote) who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called > "safety net" has become a hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 > or 50 million on food stamps - pretty much all Democratic voters - and the > program is absolutely rife with fraud with absolutely no congressional > oversight? > > >I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What > changed you is the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed > yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to > subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved > a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second > oldest profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the > oldest. > > >As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton > (1834 - 1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately > stated, > "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men > are > almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to the female sex > as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than > Congress? > > >While we middle class people continue to struggle, our > government becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and > ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just > to > mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda > or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use and what > health care we must buy. Countless thousands of pages of regulations strangle > our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day. > > >As I face > my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government tell me > "You'll just have to take a pill," while you, Senator, your colleagues, the > president, and other exulted government officials and their families will get > the best possible health care on our tax dollars until you are called home by > your Creator, while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, > which > of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for. > > >The chances of you > reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, > but with a little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them > with > an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or > representative, has heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, > go > online where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion, > rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its > senators > and representatives. > > >I only hope that occasionally you might quietly > thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you have voted > yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes > on > the $17 trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your > grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab. > > >My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost > his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to > destroy this country I deeply love and put it so far in debt that we will > never pay it off, while your lot improves by the minute, because of your > power. For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who > constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how > power has corrupted you and the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up > this cesspool is term limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays > your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up. > > >Bill Schoonover > >3096 Angela Lane > >Oak Harbor, WA98277 > > ____________________________________________________________ > One Weird Trick > Could add $1,000s to Your Social Security Checks! See if you Qualify… > newsmax.com > > > patrick <[email protected]> Oct 12 08:29PM -0700 > > I'd like to ask one last time that we refrain from politics in this forum. > There are countless venues for that. I think of this group as a place to > express mutual support and some occasional practical help when someone > asks. Am I wrong? I will refrain from addressing the portions I found > objectionable, hoping it ends at that.. Patrick > > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. 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