An Open Letter to the Republicans in Congress
There is one thing that you need to do to do right by our
country and save your butts at the same time.
I will get to that in a minute.
The biggest problem facing our country right now is our
federal debt. The second biggest is
Obamacare. Now I don’t mean this in the
absolute sense. If your basement were
filling with sewer water, while you would never say your basement is more
important than your spouse or your children, right now your basement would be
the most important thing in your world.
If President Obama finishes his complete term in office, our
debt will be around 20 trillion dollars.
The Federal Reserve is essentially printing money as fast as it can, which makes all the
money we already have worth less, our checking accounts, our savings accounts,
and our paychecks.
As our dollar devalues, the price of imports increases, since,
of course, “we don’t make anything here anymore.
We are dependent on several foreign countries to buy our
debt, and that dependency allows them to have too much influence on our foreign
policy, as we are afraid they will cash in our debt.
There is also movement among some countries to replace the
dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and that will collapse our economy a
lot more than what happened in 2008.
That will make 2008 look good by comparison.
You are not educating the American public about what is
happening here or what is at stake. The
media is not helping here, but I have a proposal below.
There are two reasons why Obamacare must be stopped, and not
that old line we keep hearing from you that the American people don’t want
it. When the media plays that tune, they
can quickly show an interview with somebody who loves it.
The first reason is that the government will now subsidize
health insurance premiums for millions of Americans. They don’t want to talk about how many, but
within a few years, I have no doubt the number would easily reach 30 million
people and keep increasing, much like how the food stamp program has mushroomed
under Obama.
Obamacare involves a major expansion of our government when
it is already crushing us with its debt. So with debt destroying our country,
they want to spend billions more each year on a new government program.
The second reason is that it will create another huge class
of people who will now be depending on the government just to get by.
So the current trend in our country is fewer people working
for less money and fewer hours to support more and more people who are
dependent on the government.
We have the debt ceiling crisis now, and if we default, you
may get the blame, because the message is not getting out. Raising the debt ceiling without funding
Obamacare will certainly put Obama as being responsible for a default, but the
media won’t help you.
So what do we have to do?
Three things.
At some point, now is probably too soon, you have to declare
that after such and such date, there will be no more debt ceiling
increases.
And then you need to declare that apart from World War 3,
another Pearl Harbor or 9/11, the only major business the House will conduct is
how to shrink our budget. No
immigration, no gun control, nothing. This is the most important thing you can
do.
Then you need to sell to the public what is wrong with this
debt. Just to say that every person owes
so much means nothing. To say that our
grandchildren are saddled with this debt means nothing.
You have to tell them how the government is stealing their
money, making it worthless, and driving their standard of living into the
toilet, unless, of course, you work for the government. You need to tell them how paying for
government sucks money out of the economy.
They will tell you that government employees pay taxes too and buy
things that help the economy, but they are using your money to do it. A government employee is like supporting a
neighbor down the block as well as your family.
Another mouth to feed. So how
does that help you buy the things you want?
Without these three things, our economy will collapse, and
if it doesn’t collapse before the next election, you may face a real hard time
because you won’t have the media telling the whole story.
This is the only way you can get the story out. Don’t give the media any other stories, and
solicit public input on where we need to cut.
You have had control of the House for 2 ½ years, and
spending hasn’t really changed. This is
your last chance. That was why you were
elected.
Thank you.
Larry Craig
