Dear Sirs:
One of you is barely functional yet refuses to relinquish power, and the other couldn’t care less about West Virginia. Neither of you gives a single solitary hoot about what I, your so-called constituent, may think or have to say. So why do I even bother to write? I do so only to fulfill my own obligation and responsibility; I do it for myself and my fellows.
After being born and raised in West Virginia I returned four years ago following a decades-long absence only to witness you, your party and your new president rise to power with the seeming intention to destroy our national inheritance of political and economic freedom.
The “power grab” of which Senator Byrd warned in February will be complete should you both acquiesce to passing just two pieces of legislation – one to effect a government takeover of private sector healthcare and the other to prevent any possibility of American energy security and independence.
Happily, I feel no need to explain to you the many ways in which this combination threatens the stability and wellbeing of our state and our country. Unlike Thomas Jefferson –who had only one messenger and one secretary, both paid by him personally- you have extensive staffs, paid for by the shrinking productive and tax-paying class of which my family strives to be a part. Since I and my fellow citizens are paying you and them out of our ever more meager resources, let them earn their gubmint salaries and benefits by explaining to you why at least half the country is desperately opposed to government destruction of our free market system. It’s not all that hard to understand, and it should definitely fall within your pay grade to comprehend the implications of our staggering rates of unemployment: 8.9 percent in the state, and 10.2 nationally.
As our public “servants,” the two of you created in my absence a little nanny state here in West Virginia, where far too many people, once proud, have become dependent upon, and increasingly greedy for, government handouts to which they believe ~to which you have accustomed them to believe~ they are entitled. It is a liberal perversion of history and fact that anything one happens to want at any given time can somehow be conjured up as a “right.” By the way, the interstate highways are much appreciated, but there is little reason for anyone to come to a state so hostile to commerce in general and entrepreneurs in particular.
I would urge you both to more closely represent the citizens of West Virginia, to use the power conferred upon you by the people of our state to vehemently fight for the protection and defense of our political and economic liberty (we the people could take it from there) but it would be only lip service; my true expectations of your doing so are nil.
In closing, let me just say that I will do everything in my power to see that you, your party and your leadership are met with political defeat at the earliest possible opportunity. In the meantime, you might want to consider the old adage to do no harm -- that is, no further harm.
Please spare me a form letter response. Just think of the tree you will save.
Anne Lieberman
