Email Sent to Rep. Ellen Tauscher - California's 10th District

Text of Email sent to Rep. Ellen Tauscher and sent to the Contra Costa Times as a letter to the Editor :

Your vote for the Stimulus Bill was amazingly stupid. This bill is an waste of taxpayer wealth. This bill will not create jobs in the short term, perhaps ever. It is loaded with expenditures that are payback for past and future votes. It will create inflation and a huge debt for future generations.

More frustrating and depressing is the realization that this is major effort on the part of liberals to take the country in the direction of dependence on the government instead of reliance on private enterprise and personal initiative. It is a very cynical effort on your part, Pelosi's, McNerney's and Miller's, to name a few local villains.

Your actions and the manner in which this bill was forced through the congress are despicable. Not only were Republicans left out but it was passed without any members of congress even reading and understanding the specific elements of this bill before they were required to vote. The Congress chose to ignore their own advisers in the Congressional Budget Office. By the way, to make up for some of this waste, why don't you suggest to Pelosi to disband the CBO since you are not using it.

Your friend and leader, Pelosi, is a contemptuous shrew and is an embarrassment to the concept of democracy.

Bipartisanship - Overrated

Much lauded bipartisanship is greatly overrate.

To the Congress:

Just vote your conscious; not your career. Be willing to go home if your constituency objects. Vote for what you truly believe is right on the the issue at hand; not for a vote to be named later, more office space, a ride on Air Force One or an impressive committee assignment. Just do what is right or go home.

Bipartisanship is the source of muddled, weak legislation. It is the first step in plausible deniability and the lack of accountability.

Voters really don't care about bipartisanship. If they say they do, its only when they want the opposition to vote their way.

What voters care about is conscience, courage and commitment. Whatever your political views either side can admirer those traits.

Unions and the Executive Branch

On February 6, 2009 Mr. Obama signed an Executive Order: Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects.

This order requires all building projects within the Executive Branch to be completed with union labor. The primary rationale assumes construction under a union contract is more stable, more predictable and less susceptible to labor disruption than non union labor.

When is the last time anyone saw non union workers disrupt a project? When is the last time you saw a union based business disrupt a project? Not fair counting today!

This is stupid!

This is dangerous!

My God, this is blatant payback to unions for their election financial support. More perverse, this is one spoke on the socialistic wheel. It is a key indicator of future actions including Card Check, the elimination of the secret ballot in unionization efforts, more unions, more union financing of Democratic campaigns, more union anti-business sentiment, less merit driven worker performance and reward, higher prices, socialized medicine, etc.

Write the press. Write the White House. Voice your dissatisfaction. Write and call your elected representatives. Create a blog. Send letters to the editor. Send money to campaigns supporting your views.

I Have Seen the Future and It All Turns Relatively Well

Obama was elected with a narrow margin by people who expect him to pay for their gas, buy them cars, buy them houses, get them promoted at MacDonald's, make them one hundred percent financially whole while on unemployment, etc. Obama's purposely vague campaign relied on each voter to project on him their individual aspirations and dreams. These voters expect him to deliver. I suspect even the liberal Obama is surprised by the nature of these personal pleadings and in his quite moments knows he will not be able to deliver on these infinite, unknown expectations his campaign strategy allowed to be created.

America is moving to the left, but it is not left yet. Obama's nominations of Daschle, Geithner, Richardson, Holder, Browner, Ogden, Kagan, some appointed and some not, some known and some soon to become known by their future dangerous actions will turn the middle voter against the radical elements of the Obama administration. America did not vote for socialism and the dismantling of our culture and our constitution. They voted against George Bush. -- "God punishes us when he answers our prayers". America will not like what they get when they get it.

The stimulus bill will fail to improve unemployment and the dark cloud of future inflation will be visible and the Obama administration will fail in its first term. The loyal opposition should continue to provide more viable alternatives and more time for each liberal initiative to be examined as they are pushed by administration and the Pelosi/Reid congress. What do we call this now, transparency?

The disenfranchised voters looking for an Obama handout will not turn out in the next election. They were voting for change and they got it -- $13.00 a week from the stimulus bill is the change they got. In the midterm elections enlightened voters in the middle not looking for a handout, those watching the results of the first two years will understand that Pelosi, Reid, Leahy, Obey, Rangel, et al do not represent the middle. And though the voters may not have direct influence to rid the congress of these people they will go out of their way to insure they don't send them allies. They will start the move to middle by electing conservatives. Obama will be taken care of in 2012.

I have seen the future and it works out relatively well if conservatives keep up the pressure and keep up the spotlight on the liberals. --- Well, that is, everything is OK except the more dire and uncontrolled international scene.