An Open Letter to The President and to Congress

Mr. President, Speaker Boehner, Senators Harry Reid, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Representatives Chellie Pingree and Michael Michaud,
This business of budget cutting is getting out of hand.  Yes, we need to cut the budget and control spending but we need to create jobs even more.  We need to be fixing our infrastructure.  You people are playing a game of chicken with the lives of American people to see who is going to give in first.
When you cut things like LIHEAP which will affect the working poor and middle class you are playing with fire.  . My hero is Joe Kennedy!  He knows how to help people.  You are guessing that the price of heating oil will not go up.  Well, I have news for you, it already is!
When you begin to take away the rights of women to choose and to receive basic health care screening such as screening for cervical cancer or mammograms you are saying that you don't give damn about women.  When you try to redefine rape to make it seem like the woman is at fault you denigrate women.
I wonder why you are not proposing to cut your own government paid health insurance when you want to defund health care for the rest of us.  Don't forget who is paying for that!  The American taxpayer, that's who.
You want to freeze federal employees' salaries but not the salaries of the Congress.  Come on guys and girls share the burden with us.  What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
But no, you will not share with the people and you will still kowtow to corporate interests in the hopes that you will get money from them to be reelected.  You know this is not supposed to be a lifetime job .  Don't forget you just gave huge tax cuts to the wealthy when we could have had that money go towards the deficit.  You have shown who you care for and that is not the ordinary citizen.  We are as corrupt as any other nation, thanks to you folks and Wall Street and the big banks and corporations.
Get us out of Afghanistan and Iraq and save the money instead of putting it on the backs of the American people.  These two places are so corrupt that out tax money is being stolen away and we might as well get it back by withdrawing.  Also  make the corporations pay higher taxes.  They aren't hiring people anyway and then they are discriminating against people who are unemployed.  We sent you to Washington to fix these problems and they have just gotten worse.
The people aren't stupid and you can see from what is happening in Wisconsin and may move to other states, the people are fed up.  So instead of taking a week off every three weeks put in a full year of working together (like the rest of the country does) to fix these problems