Open letter to politicians

An Open Letter To All Politicians

Elections are coming up soon and some of you may be up for re-election. You are bidding for my vote, as well as the votes of many others. Here is what I would like to see from anyone seeking my vote. These are the things I would like you to do if you want my vote.

1. Do not raise my taxes. In fact lower them and live within your budget. If we as citizens are expected to, you should also.

2. Denounce the United Nations and call for our immediate withdrawal from that un-American institution. Then call for their removal from U.S. soil.

3. Do away with the Patriot Act and all other violations of our liberties it authorizes. James Madison made the following quotes and they apply to the abridgement upon our liberties going on now in the guise of national security.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

4. Secure our borders from any further illegal immigration. If you have to post an armed U.S. soldier, with orders to shoot, every ten feet, so be it. Then deport all illegal immigrants in this country.

5. Replace the funds for social security back into the trust in which they were originally intended. Stop taxing social security benefits. Pay back all those funds squandered that were intended for social security. Stop paying social security benefits to anyone who has not worked in this country and contributed to the fund for less than 5 years. Franklin Roosevelt established social security as follows, return it to it's original design.

-- That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
-- That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
-- That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
-- That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
-- That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

6. Do not accept any campaign contributions from corporations or other special interest groups. Your constituents are your employers not big business or special interest groups.

7. Do not run a negative campaign. Tell us what your goal is for the country; how you plan to make things better, how you plan to pay for these plans without raising taxes and not how bad your opponent will make things. I want to know your plans, not your opponents weaknesses and faults.

8. Live by your oath to uphold the Constitution. Learn what is says you can, and most importantly cannot do. You have no business running education and numerous other areas that are states rights. Leave Roe v. Wade, medical marijuana, abortion, and a myriad of other issues to the states. No where in the Constitution does it grant you authority over those issues.

9. Tell us the truth. We can handle it. Do not lie to cover your jobs, or protect someone who may finance your next bid for office.

10. Finally, do not make political office a career goal. If you are elected, do your job and after a couple terms go out and find a real job outside the government. No aides, lobbyists, or government contractors. Go live in the real world that your pitiful laws help to create.