A Letter To The Editor On Congressman Kratovil

Congressman Kratovil,

Thank you so much for coming to our area to listen to our concerns. I attended the meeting at Mardela High School. It was unfortunate that either you and your staff did not anticipate the number of people that would attend or that you had hoped that people would leave when they found that they were unlikely to have 5 minutes of personal time with you. What ever the motivation for that forum decision, I am glad that you understood that the people who elected you wanted to make sure that you heard us. I do think that it was unfortunate that a couple of people were trying to shout you down and they do not speak for the all of us in their approach but you must understand that behavior like that is borne of anger and frustration with everything that Washington is doing to us and in that sense we all agree.

Congressman, the group that met with you last night are hard working folks who do not ask anything from their elected officials except to protect us from our enemies, secure our borders and protect our rights as citizens. The federal government, and for that matter state and local governments have proven time and again throughout history that they can not provide the basic life services to our citizens. Our public school systems are not educating our children properly because of government interference and unfunded mandates along with the coercion of the teacher’s union; Social Security is broke and now millions of people who believed that this was their retirement can not retire; medicare is broke and we are constantly hearing of claims of medical rationing.

This government, or for that matter any government can not improve our economy and take us out of a recession by becoming an employer. They weren’t able to do it in the early part of the last century and they can’t do it now. The only way for this economy to heal itself is to let business thrive. It has been proven that revenues will increase if business is doing business. Government needs to get out of the way, reduce some business taxes so that business can grow and hire more people and people will have more to spend. It is after all a very basic idea. We have lost so much manufacturing in this country and we continue to send some of our natural resources to other countries to be manufactured and sent back to the U.S. when we buy the product at now an inflated price. This does not make any sense to me. Why aren’t we helping business to thrive and produce what we need here and reward our citizens.

I am not a radical or a terrorist. I do participate in groups of like minded people, i.e.political, social and religion but I also listen to folks who think differently. I am a United States citizen who has the absolute and God given right to be free to have and speak my own opinion. When my government feels the need to target me as an individual either through the White House’s “flag” email program disguised under the “disinformation” idea or through invasive questioning on the census program now being run through the White House, I start to see a pattern of government wanting to control too much of my life. Unfortunately we have all but lost any unbiased reporting in this country, when Charles Gibson of ABC News refers to Congressman meeting with an “orchestrated” constituency. Where were they when Acorn bused people to the homes of those citizens who received bonuses that they earned. We are not orchestrated or organized, we are making use of our rights under our Constitution.

Congressman, as our representative in Washington and a citizen of this country, I ask you to read the Constitution of this great country. I hope it will be a re-reading of same, as I am sure you have had to read it during your education as an attorney and as I am sure you have had to keep that document in mind as a prosecutor. I do not care what political party you belong to because I have always voted for the person and what they say they stand for. You have been elected by our district as our representative so when and if you run for re-election, I will vote or not vote for you based on how you represent us.

Please go back to Washington and throw out this health care bill. Take a look at the issues of the best health care system in the world and do something to make it work better for the citizens and not the illegal aliens. Take a look at the medicare and the Social Security disaster and fix that. Everyone, citizen or not is getting the best health care in the world. Don’t break the system, make it even better.

Prior to your election you told me that you were a conservative democrat and you reiterated that last night. I am going to hold you to that and I will be watching to see that you act conservatively. So far?.. not so much.