Is it me, or has Senator Hatch (who I’ve supported for years) lost it?

His most recent slap to the face of the American People, is warning Congressman Chaffetz to be careful about fighting earmarks. Grrr!

When you’re not happy with your representatives, be it State, or in Washington, LET THEM KNOW!

Dear Senator Hatch:

I’m writing you to let you know that I am angry with you.

I just read a report on KSL.com about you warning Congressman Chaffetz to be careful about fighting earmarks. I read the whole thing, and I can see your point, but seriously, with the raging anger this country has over government thievery, you’re seriously going to take that position?!?

Senator, we are fed up with tax and spend. And honestly, I am fed up with you: I am angry about your efforts to get a pardon for convicted drug dealer John Forte, I am mad about the love song your wrote about Ted Kennedy, I am mad that you supported the nomination of Eric Holder, and Tim Geithner. I am angry that you seem to be working so hard to get along with the people who are destroying this country that it appears you have turned into one of them! And now this!

Jason Chaffetz is a congressman today because the people who put him in office believe he will be uncompromising. We are SICK to DEATH of compromise! We want our country back! We don’t want deals, we don’t want give and take, we want action! We want a fighter.

Unfortunately, I can’t vote for Chaffetz, because I don’t live in his district, but I support him 100%.

I DO get to vote for you, however.

And I want earmarks GONE! Here’s an idea, give us our money back, and we’ll spend it on what WE want, rather than what the government tells us we do.

What I would really like is for everyone in Washington to STOP! Stop writing bills, stop passing laws, stop regulating EVERYTHING on God’s green earth! For the love of Pete, we’ve got enough laws to last another 200 years if everyone in Washington was in a coma!

I am tired of being financially ravaged by the IRS and getting nothing but government incompetence and stupidity in return for it! Washington has become nothing more than a huge government operated extortion ring. I am absolutely sick of it, and so are millions of Americans like me.

The Tea Parties, the Town Hall Meetings, the 9/12 project, the 2nd Amendment March (currently being organized), and other citizen movements to oppose big government and illegal regulation are not unimportant anomalies. They represent a huge dissatisfaction over government abuse. Ignore them at your political peril.

I want you to remember that you, as a United States Senator, are a representative of The People. You are NOT a leader. You are not in office to lead. The People lead YOU.

You are in office to represent us. Right now I want my representatives to be mean and aggressive. I want you to resist the acid that is corroding the shining heart of this country with absolute resolve. We don’t want puppies, we want pit bulls.

Today, you lost my vote, Senator. That’s the bottom line. I’ve supported you for years, but today, I’m done.

While you’ve done many good things over the years, lately it appears that you’ve lost touch. We want representatives who stand up for us. We as Americans have compromised ourselves almost to the point of losing our liberty. That is over. On election day, I will be supporting people who will FIGHT to get my freedom back.

Thanks for your time, and your service!

Sincerely,

And that’s it. I have written to Senator Hatch before about other issues. In the past my letters have been positive and supportive. I hope this one clearly signals the dramatic change in my sentiment towards his office.

Why don’t YOU take the time to write to your representatives. Let them know if they’re doing a good job. Let them know if they aren’t. But don’t only write on rare occasions when you’re mad. It’s important to give them props when they deserve it. If they frequently get positive correspondence from you and recognize you as someone who frequently encourages and supports their projects, it will have a much greater impact when you have to write them a scathing letter like this one.

Go fourth with honor and have a great day!

Okay, today I’m going to be lazy and post some quotes — because I think they are pure and brilliant truth.

These are two quotes by Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts (Las Vegas) taken from a recent interview with Chris Wallace on Fox:

“Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization’s history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. The only thing that creates an increased standard of living is giving someone a job, the demand for their labor — whether it’s you and I, Chris, or anybody else. The people that are paying the price for this juggernaut of federal spending are the middle class and the working class of America.”

“…And soaring rhetoric and great speeches with or without a teleprompter aren’t going to change the truth, and the truth is: The biggest enemy, the biggest obstacle that working middle-class America has is government spending.”

If only people could “get” this. I’m afraid that by the time people in America wake up to the truth (if they ever do), it’s going to be too late.

I used to believe that inside of every human heart there is an innate desire to be free.

I used to think that each one of us wanted to be in control of our destiny and potential — to fly with the glorious wings of liberty that our forefathers and brave soldiers bought for us with enormous sacrifice and with their lives.

But today, we’re a nation of infants — liberal, dependent, foolish, perfectly content with endless regulations, controls, systems, and laws. The cost of which is huge! It limits our potential and breaks our spirit.

There is no freedom in this. The government doesn’t fears us (like our founding fathers intended), it runs us. And the most abhorrent thing about that is: no one cares.

But I do.