Letter to Senator Vitter

I got an E-update from Senator Vitter today and I really can't stand some of the issues he takes up. He is a dishonest, slime ball in my opinion. But he really believes in what he's doing so I have to respect that. Anyway, periodically I respond to his updates and this is my most recent retort:


Dear Sr Vitter,

I am writing in strong opposition to two of your viewpoints listed below. As a voting tax payer in Orleans Parish, I think that the DREAM Act and all that it stands for is in the truest intention for fulfillment of the American DREAM for all immigrants that have come to this country. I am appalled that this Act would cause any partisan splits. Immigrants educating themselves and/or serving in the armed forces intend to stay in the United States, not to get an education and split, they want to fulfill their American dream and BECOME VIABLE TAXPAYERS to pay for our ever escalating military budget and other exigencies. Maybe if we didn't have to fund a regressive military effort, maybe if we became a country of producers rather than consumers, maybe if our focus would shift from arrogantly maintaining world superpower status to making certain we aren't rotting from within, we wouldn't need MORE TAXPAYERS but in this point in history I would think a Republican elected official would see the value of substantiating our coffers with as large a tax base as possible. STOP BEING SHORTSIGHTED and BECOME A TRUE LEADER THAT WE CAN BE PROUD OF.

My final point is with regards to your position on US involvement in international bailouts. Completely agree with you there. However, as you put it the US has the largest stake in the IMF, therefore the most pull in the policies and regulations administered from that source.  Stating that the reckless budgetary trends are bringing countries into debt, it would be prudent to investigate what trade policies, international financing maleficences and other WTO/IMF/World Bank restrictions brought on this 'reckless' behavior. And further more, I do not think it wise for the USA to start throwing debt rocks through our glass house. We are at another critical point, with Republican leadership balking at excessive spending or any kind of spending, it will be telling to see how our debt calculations are going to play in DoD and DHS funding. In my opinion, its clear that we are also exhibiting reckless budgetary trends.

Please start looking at the big picture, we can't really afford anything less.

Regards,

Bluebird