Response to Barbara Boxer’s Form Letter

September 3, 2010

Here is a form e-mail letter I received from Barbara Boxer today. My comments are in [brackets].

September 02, 2010
Dear Friend:

As I keep working to help pull California out of the worst recession since the Great Depression, my top priority has been to create jobs and get our economy moving again. [Note: First off, I am not your friend. Your idea of creating jobs is creating government jobs. What you should be doing is cutting regulations and lowering taxes so investors will feel comfortable investing in the private sector again and pull the COUNTRY out of its recession!]

At the same time, we must begin attacking the federal budget deficit. Though economic growth and job creation are the best tools to reduce the deficit, we must take additional steps to eliminate the long-term budget deficit and protect future generations from a staggering burden of debt. [True though you have gone along with Obama and the Democrats on every spending bill since you took over the House and Senate!]

We did it before, and we can do it again. When President Bill Clinton and I first took office, the nation was suffering under a recession and a massive federal budget deficit. Eight years later, we had created 23 million jobs and the biggest budget surplus in history: $236 billion. Unfortunately, the failed policies of the last administration left us with a $1.3 trillion deficit and an economy in shambles. [If you remember, it was a Republican Congress that made this happen, not Democrats! And stop blaming the past administration and man-up. It's YOUR economy now!]

Here are some measures we could take right away to cut the federal deficit:

Adhere to “pay-as-you-go” (PAYGO) rules requiring any new federal investments to be offset by corresponding budget cuts – I have voted for PAYGO rules eight times since 2003; [Does anyone else remember a speech by Obama not that long ago saying we were going to be using PAYGO??? This is a NEW idea??? How about just living up to the original promise???]

Cut $36.5 billion over the next ten years in tax breaks for oil and gas companies; [Again with Big Oil. What about your Big Government salaries? And what happens when energy prices skyrocket?]

Cut $15 billion over ten years in tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas; [Who gave it to them in the first place and made it impossible to do business in the US?]

Cut $100 billion over ten years from the federal government’s travel budget, which rose by 75 percent during the Bush era; [Does this include the Michelle Obama trips with 40 of her friends or the Imam who is traveling overseas on our dime for an "outreach" program?]

Save $1.1 trillion over ten years by bringing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to a close; [Oh sure, the one thing the Constitution says the government CAN do, you want to shut down our national defense. Our spending for 7 years of wars is a drop in the bucket compared to all the stimulus and other spending you guys have done.]

Cut $500 billion over ten years in wasteful payments made by the Federal government; [Starting with your salary, health care and retirement pension???]

Save hundreds of billions of dollars by allowing some of the Bush tax cuts to expire – even just those for millionaires. [Why target the rich? I have never gotten a job from anyone who is standing on a street corner. It is the rich who are providing the jobs by investing in the economy. If the rich are made poor how does that help anyone?]

In addition to these steps, I look forward to evaluating the recommendations of the bipartisan deficit reduction commission recently established by President Obama. I have voted to establish a bipartisan deficit reduction commission whose recommendations would get fast-track authority for Congressional approval, and I am glad President Obama took the initiative to establish a commission. [Make no mistake. The theory is that this bi-partisan commission is going to recommend a VAT tax... with us in the middle of a recession! Are you trying to send us into a DEPRESSION?]

Working together, I know we can put America on the road to a balanced budget and sustained economic growth. We did it before. We can do it again. [Working together we are going to retire you in November and put some real solution-oriented people to work on solving our fiscal problems.]

Response to Barbara Boxer’s Form Letter

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