A Message To The Republican Party

To: Chairman, RNC

Dear Mr. Steele,

Thank you for contacting me. I did not send a contribution and I am going to take a few minutes here to tell you why.

I am not a Republican, I am not a Democrat, and I consider myself an Independent thinker. In the most strict sense of the term, I am an American. I believe in American values, not socialism, communism, or any of the other "isms" that so many of the radical special interests groups espouse. I want what is good for America. It just happens to be that I am a 66 year old white male who has been retired on a fixed income now for about 4 years. The savings that my wife and I thought would provide the cushion that we could fall back on in the event that hard times happened along, has dwindled to about half of what it was when I retired... just 4 short years ago... and now those "hard times" have arrived. Not a pretty picture.

8 years ago I supported George W. Bush and the Republican Party with both my votes and my money, primarily because I could not stand the thought of having an environmentalist nutcase, nit-wit like Al Gore as our President. We came dangerously close to seeing that reality then, and so again, 4 years ago I supported George W. Bush and the Repubilcan Party with both my votes and my money (though it was much less than before), and "right thinking Americans" were able to stave off yet another attempt of the "left wing" of the Democrat party's attempt to take over our government. I should tell you at this point that the support that I gave to the Republicans and George W. Bush was done with my eyes wide open. I heard him when he promised "free trade"... not fair trade. And again when he emphatically exclaimed that Mexico, our neighbor to the South, "is our friend"....I heard him, and I knew that translated into a "sell out of American jobs" to the ineffective border controls that would allow illegals to flood our nation and suck the life out of our social systems. That is now a reality as untold millions have come here for the "perks" that we "give" them. Yes, they do work, and they are generally good people. But our system was not designed to care for all the indigent of the world, Mexico and otherwise. It was designed for Americans. Americans like you and others who were born here or became Americans through legal immigration and legal means.

Here's the bottom line Mr. Steele. During those 8 years, during which about 12 years of Republican control of the house and the Senate ended, I lost ground. I am less secure financially today and find myself seeking a continuing means of support as there is little hope that the "system" that so freely supports the illegal immigrants and other "slackers" who should not be getting money from the government, will not be the level of support that my wife and I envisioned when I retired. At the current rate, and I think the rate will escalate under the Democrat dominated government that we are now saddled with, I expect that within 5 years I will be forced to divest myself of all that I currently own (regardless of whether the markets are favorable or not) and have spent literally a working lifetime to acquire, in an attempt to stave off absolute poverty. Much of this is due to the policies and inept leadership that we were provided by Republicans and a Republican controlled Congress. I could enumerate a long list of greivances for which I hold Republicans responsible. Not because they were the only game in town, but because when they had the power to make a difference, they didn't. The Republican Party, in my humble opinion, squandered away a golden opportunity to put this country back on a successful track, but instead, decided to become "bi-partisan" and let the Democrats "share" power in all the congressional committees and other institutions as well. (As I recall the first really major accomplishment of the Bush Administration was to get a Democrat back education bill passed. Isn't that a little bit sick? I don't think that is why Americans elected Republicans into power. Do you?)

I believe in simple economics and business practices and I think politics and politicians should be held to the same ethical standards as is any business that is worth its salt. It's simple. If I come to your store and you are selling peanut butter (maybe not the best example right now), I take the jar from your shelf and bring it to the counter. There we do an exchange, my money for your peanut butter. You then have payment for what you have already provided to me, (the peanut butter), and I have the jar of peanut butter. I take the product home with me, open it up and begin to consume it. If I find that the product is not as represented, then I am coming back to your store... not to buy another jar of peanut butter, but to make you take back the "bad" peanut butter, and then I will go to someone else's store to see if they have a good product that I can use. Most likely I will not even shop at your store again, and if enough people have the same experience with your products you will go out of business.

Mr. Steele, I think that is where the Republican Party is today. They are on their way "out of business" because the products that they promised to the people who "shopped at their store" turned out to be less than the advertising lead everyone to expect. Now, if you were in business, as in the last example above, would you appeal to the people, whom you have alienated by providing them with bad products, to "give" you enough money so that you could go out and try to develop a better product that you can sell somewhere down the road, say maybe 2 or 3, but more likely 4 or 6 years? I doubt that you would be so naive.

If you want my money, of which there is precious little left, then you are going to have to prove to me that you are already offering a product that I know will work. When your Republican politicians can learn to stand together to hold off the insane policies that the Democrats are very busy "cramming" down the gullet of every American, those who are stupid enough to believe the stimulus that is offered will work and those who are wise enough to see that we will never be able to "borrow" our way out of debt, then I will consider doing more than just try to enlighten everyone that I know about the consequences we are about to suffer. In the meantime, we will all go down the tube together, good or bad, wise or not, just because a hand full of so called Republicans chose to go over to the other side and "aid the enemies of American Independence.

This is a sad day for America, and if the tide of stupid, self destructive policies, both Republican and Democrat supported idiocy, is not curbed soon, this country will be America in name only, just a gutted shell of what was, and could have continued to be, the most productive and benevolent society ever to occupy this earth. A very sad day indeed.

Bill Reid
Phone:469-595-0661
http://billreid.info

The Bubble Is Bursting

The current economic crisis is the result of irresponsible spending that dates all the way back into the 1950's and 1960's, with a marked upturn during the Johnson administration. We have faced similar but lesser circumstances 7 or 8 times since then, and each time we have sought to resolve the issue by pushing the "bubble" further into the future by printing additional money and/or devaluing our currency.

The problem that we are now facing is that we cannot print money fast enough to keep the "bubble" from bursting. To continue this same type of failed remedy (spending our way out of debt) as has been done in the past, is pure folly. Borrowing money to pay off debt will not work. It does not work with individuals and it does not work with governments. Eventually the currency that is being devalued to create this "illusion of plenty" will become worthless and having it will be senseless.

There is only one solution to this economic crisis, which is just a bigger version of all those that came before, since the end of WW II, and that is, to once again become a nation of producers instead of encouraging our status as "consumers".

Eventually, the "buck will stop somewhere", either voluntarily or involuntarily in the form of a total financial collapse. If it happens involuntarily then chaos will reign and blame will be assigned, but the end result will be the same. The United States will devolve into a fractured, confused collection of regional economies based on their ability to produce something necessary for the survival of the masses, but overall will settle into a world role something like the Europe of today and will be vulnerable to the whims of totalitarian governments that will survive simple due to their heavy handed population control tactics.

God Save America, because those who are currently in power, the same as the last two eight year administrations of Clinton and Bush, do not have either the vision or the leadership ability to avoid the inevitable.