A Letter To Congress

Dear Congress;

It is Christmas Eve.  You and the other "representatives of the
people" have returned home from Washington to enjoy this blessed
holiday with your families. As you do so, the fiscal future of this
entire country hangs in the balance. With it go the hopes and dreams
of real people, people who do NOT have a lifetime salary and health
care, real people that do NOT make salaries in excess of $100,000,
real people who struggle every day to pay their living expenses and
increasing taxes, real people who struggle to pay mortgages and real
estate taxes on homes that have depreciated in value by more than 20%,
real people who despite working hard all their lives and doing the
right thing, have no chance of ever retiring.  These are the people
who you are failing to represent as you bicker and argue issues that
are based purely on lobbyist driven party lines.

Your failure to properly manage the finances of this country and then
delay appropriate measures to avoid a catastrophe are borderline
treasonous. At best these failures are cause for a complete recall of
all representatives.

Continual blame on the present Presidential leadership or on past
administrations is ludicrous as most of you have been in office long
enough to have played a part in this mess.

It is time to actually represent the people that sent you to
Washington, not the businesses who care only about their own bottom
line and/or your own bank accounts and investments.

The mood of this country is desperate. Crime and sociopathic attacks
are rising due to the economic attack waged on the poor and the middle
class.

Each of you pledged to make a difference as you campaigned, but have
failed to do anything more than your predecessors.

Real tax reform would eliminate the IRS and replace it with a national
consumption tax. This would be the fairest  form of taxation as those
who can afford to spend would pay "tax" based on their ability to
spend, as those with less money would pay based on their ability to
spend. It would both reduce government spending  and increase
revenues. You all know this, but refuse to implement it as it would
reduce the level of control the current system gives you over the
population.

Real political reform would eliminate your permanent salaries and
health care and pay you a capped salary in line with the national
average salary WHILE  you are in office.

Health care reform would eliminate employer paid health plans and send
everyone to insurance shop as we do now with automobile insurance.
This would force insurance companies to reduce premiums and in turn
would drive DOWN the cost of healthcare.

These solutions would take work. They would anger the insurance
companies, and would make most congressional representatives leave
their currently cushy posts.

Prove me wrong. Return to Washington on December 26 and drop the party
lines and start working toward solutions that will actually preserve
this union and protect the interests of REAL people.

Sincerely,

James F Szakacs
19015 Bennett Road
North Royalton, Ohio 44133
Jfs5487@gmail.com
440-263-8125



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