A message from Senator Chambliss

Thank you for contacting my office and sharing your concerns. As your United States Senator, I look forward to hearing from all of my constituents from the State of Georgia, especially when they have concerns or problems, need guidance or information, or want to share any other matters of interest with me.

If I can ever be of assistance to you or your family, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I appreciate hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Saxby Chambliss
United States Senate

Thank you for your message, Senator Chambliss, and I do have some suggestions on how you could be of help to me, my family, our community, our city, our state, the country, and perhaps even the world. If you would be of help, if you would serve the people, please reassess some basic issues.

I have advice for you and all of your colleagues – right or left (although I am a liberal I am disappointed by almost all of you). Those of you who would be remembered kindly by history and by your descendents and by the citizens of this state and country would do well to take the time – now – to reassess the situation. Off the top of my head, here are some areas in which all of you could be of assistance:

• You could stand for the values of freedom, democracy, justice and equal rights – for all the people.
• You could save social security very easily. Charge everyone 5% payroll tax for the first $30,000 of income, and then charge 5% again starting at the income level of $180,000 up to the millions or billions that the top 5% of the population represents. You could not only pay for social security, but perhaps even college for our kids.
• You could put a stop to propaganda. For example, for “fake news”- if politicians and the White House want to advertise, they can pay for an ad like anyone else.
• You could resist the intended destruction of the public education system.
• You could resist the intended dissolution of medicare and medicaid.
• You could assure that all of our citizens have equal access to quality health care.
• You could resist the blasphemy of using religious language to hide purposes of greed and war, to create hatred and scapegoating, and to rob citizens.
• You could object to war profiteering.
• You could resist the new class structure.
• You could object to the destruction of our environment – just lately, how about saying “no” to pouring raw sewage in our water?
• You could have public discussions on controversial issues – real debate, not PR.
• You could listen to smart educated qualified people such as scientists, historians, interpreters of culture, economists, ethicists, and even theologians if they are real theologians and not con artists.
• You could create a healthier capitalism by also valuing human life. Stop putting industry leaders into the “watchdog” positions. That’s a conflict of interest.
• Speaking of conflicts of interest – I think all of you there in Washington need a serious refresher course on what they are, why they are bad, and how you must restrain yourselves from becoming involved with them.
• You could stand for judges that interpret the law, not simply mandate their own ideology, and insist on a two-thirds majority vote for judicial nominees.
• You could refuse to use antonyms of meaning in your political discourse: Clean Air, Healthy Forests, Clean Water, Activist Judges, Culture of Life – or whatever Rove and the Goebbels crew have dreamed up this week. Even some of the conservative citizens can figure that one out – we decode advertisements every day.
• You could be a responsible steward of our money and our land.
• You could stand up for the Americans who are not wealthy and who voted for members of your party believing that “y’all” stood for families and for goodness.
• You could stand up for those who have no voice.
• You could call forth the best in the people, not the worst.
• You could show the same care for victims in Fallujah and other places as for those hit by tsunamis.
• You could resist the transformation of our free country into a slash and burn zone for crony capitalism.
• You could care for “the least of these” among us.
• You could resist hatemongering of all kinds.
• You could go out among your constituents and actually talk to them about what really does concern them. Go on a listening tour.
• Oh, and PS – Ralph Reed for Lt Governor – that’s a joke, right? Do any of you really respect Tom De Lay? When does America get our voting apparatus back? Etc.

  My concern is that you, along with many others, appear to have forgotten the content of the highest American values. You could act as a man of integrity and conscience and – even now – make a positive change. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, won’t you please resist the oncoming state of fascism – which, above and beyond its inherent ills, will also assure that we will never really compete in the world market? We are too insular, too provincial – we have lost the capacity for respect and diplomacy. We are not honorable. We are not good business partners.

  I now fear our own future in the USA more than I fear any terrorist.

  In all sincerity,