An open letter to John Boehner

Dear Senator Boehner,

You ran on a platform of “Where are the jobs” promising to make sure American’s get back to work. You had a plan to do so, you said. You won, and now we’re all still waiting to see your plan to get people working again, only you still haven’t shared it. You don’t seem to have one. It’s strange, I was raised to believe if you knew how to help people you did it freely and with joy because “it’s the Christian thing to do” or as many Americans are taught in Sunday school “sharing is caring”. I don’t know how you were raised but I was always taught and believe even today that people are more important than money. Somehow the Republican party seems to have forgotten that.

Please explain why with the Bush tax cuts in effect since 2003 we’re still losing jobs and have been for months. Please explain how cutting the size of government will increase employment, it seems to me that will in fact add more to the rolls of the unemployed. Please explain the mathematical formula you used to calculate that the democrats are at fault for a recession that started 3 years before they took back the senate and house. The blame game really doesn’t work anymore now that we’re in a world where things like wikileaks, anonymous and others dedicated to a free transparent open government expect. The historical record has a habit of not being kind to people who cheat and push responsibility elsewhere. Do you want that to be your footnote in the history books? Stand up for what’s right and be a beacon of hope instead of delivering more fear and blame.

I understand party affiliation, I understand fighting for what you believe in. But how can you say that giving the extremely wealthy a tax cut while millions of Americans can’t get a job is a good idea? If more Americans are out of work they stop buying retail goods, they stop paying utilities which in turn causes those companies to let employees go which compounds the problem. The evidence of that is in front of you yet for some reason your party sides with the wealthy every time. That’s your right as a free American to choose to side with the wealthy, but wouldn’t that also compel you to stop using the conservative base that straddle the poverty line to get elected? If you want to represent the wealthy don’t do it in government, do it in the private sector because in government you’re only hurting all Americans to enrich a very few.

Please if you care about this country and all it’s myriad people you’ll stop putting the wealthy before ALL Americans.