Forum Post: Open Letter to GOP candidates, Congress and President Obama Part 1

Ron Lawl among other GOP Candidates want to cut the EPA, DoE, Medicare, Medicaid, Part D benefits, and cut public sector jobs and anything that has anything to do with helping people. Ron Lawl talks about slashing A trillion dollars in one year. Who's going to take the big FAST hard hit for that? The elderly - the baby boomers who did not get pensions from their workplace - the one's that did not go to college (mostly because it wasn't affordable then), but worked blue collar jobs - the ones who paid into to Social Security their whole lives - THAT was their pension plan. And you are going to take it away from them, and you are going to force them to use their, reduced or non-existent social security to pay for private coverage. I don't know what world he lives in (one of a comfortable, if not luxurious life style, with no worry of where HIS old age benefits are coming from his pay from government. Does he talk about slashing the pay for senators and representatives - oh no, he wants reduced pay for ONLY the president and cabinet members. You would have to cut NO public spending if all Senators, all Representatives, all High Grade Military Personnel and Cabinet, Supreme Court Judges and President took pay cuts - all paid what he proposes for just the president AND abolish lifetime salaries after their terms are up. Pension only - and that modest. Aren't they all there to serve the people, not themselves? Congress is in session so very little of the time - congressional pay should be on a per-session basis, and those who don't show up - don't get paid at all. If the whole time is spent in gridlock, as the 112th Congress has been. There should be a monetary penalty for poor performance for all members of Congress, The American People are pissed. If it were possible we would recall every member of congress, or vote no confidence. We are paying all of you to focus on the Needs of our Country, not stonewalling and threatening financial terrorism to the people of the US. The American People did not create this mess - you all did. The only mistake we made was electing all of you, thinking you had our best interests at heart. You all have shown the American People that you, along with the Corporations, or Special Interest Groups who sponsor you for favor, aren't interested in the needs of the people of this country, you are about personal gain. I think your corporations should be paying your salaries at this point - not the American people. We are all quite disgusted. You insult the TENS OF THOUSANDS of people in the streets. Not the "jobless dirty hippies" as you want to tell yourselves, but REAL people of all ages, incomes, education. Primarily the people in the streets are the people that will have to run this country when you are all dead and gone. Speaking of which, your legacies will not be famous, but infamous.

See part 2