Congressional Open Letter: PPP Bankrupt!!!

By |2020-04-21T18:34:21+00:00April 21st, 2020|Economics, House & Senate, Opinion|

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NAME AND ADDRESS REDACTED
US Representative Josh Gottheimer
Newton District Office
93 Spring Street, Suite 408
Newton, NJ 07860

April 20, 2020
Dear Congressman Gotheimer:

I received your response email to my most recent letter and am beyond shocked at your lack of care and concern to address the base issue put forth in my letter. As usual, you have ignored the main concern and slid right back into your own selfish agendas with side notes on how wonderful you are. I know about the Cares Act and the money that has already been allotted for individual Americans etc. I’m aware of the difficulties with the economy, how hard you’re working to correct certain problems and the overall concerns of the virus. I want to thank you for all of that. I know you’ve been working hard to help this situation but honestly, you’re not hitting the nail on the head. That’s not what I was addressing and you know it!

I implore you and your colleagues in Congress to stop using the virus as a step off platform to get other things passed that are NOT essential! Come on!

You elitists have no idea how the majority of Americans live financially. You’re in your own little private world of insensitivity. Step out of your safety net and try; just try to imagine not knowing where your next meal is coming from because you have no job, no business to run and a family of four to feed! Then try to imagine that there’s little hope on the horizon from the people you’ve HIRED to step up to the plate and help you in just this kind of emergency!

Your response is nonsense! You are explaining to me what congress did but you left out that the PPP is out of money. (Paycheck Protection Program for those who don’t know who read this on the website or in the paper)

You and your party led by The Honorable Nancy Pelosi refused to increase the fund for small business. Shame on you and shame on your Leader!! Disgraceful is not a strong enough word. And please stop showing off your mansions and refrigerators full of food on national TV when so many in our country are going to bed hungry. I speak of your friend, Nancy Pelosi on the news. Sickening and it sure screams selfish and insensitive. Are you all that ignorant of what’s really going on here? If not then take a stand against this lack of common sense. PLEASE!

Why don’t you and all of Congress and the US Senate give up your pay until the last COVID-19 case is gone? I am serious! Come down off your high horse and have some compassion – REAL compassion! What’s the old saying? Put your money where your mouth is!

You’ve become so uncompromising over the past several years and that’s awful on its own; but to be so stubborn and insensitive to the needs of the American people during a very serious potentially life threatening pandemic is disgusting!! There’s very little respect left for you!

Very Truly Yours,

xxxx
CC: www.WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates.org
CC:NJ Herald, NJ Star Ledger, Advertiser News, Warren Reporter & Star Gazette

Reader’s note
Very well put, sadly it has fallen on deaf ears! They are so caught up with trying to stay in power they could not give a good crap what truly is happening. Millions have been spent/promised to non essential expenditures and that includes there salaries.

Vote the whole lot out of office, term limits! Never happen Washington is run by lawyers that could not make a living in there own business and now they are running the PIGGEY bank for there own enrichment under the guise of representing the people that gave them there job.

ACLJ Letter: Senate Votes

By |2020-03-03T15:51:32+00:00March 3rd, 2020|ACLJ, House & Senate, Planned Parenthood|

Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry are becoming more extreme by the day.

They are trying to defeat EVERY pro-life law and bill nationwide. And now they are trying to even defeat efforts to protect babies who have already been born. Abortion isn’t enough for them. It’s sick.

Tomorrow there are two critical votes scheduled in the U.S. Senate to defend life. One will ban gruesome late-term abortions, when babies can feel the pain of being killed. The other will protect innocent babies born alive from infanticide.

The abortion lobby is demanding Senators vote AGAINST these commonsense protections. That’s how extreme they are.

Right now, we’re aggressively engaged on Capitol Hill urging support for these bills that could save countless babies . At the same time, we’re in federal court in two critical cases against both Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry regarding the harvesting and selling of aborted babies’ body parts.

We’re about to appeal our case against Planned Parenthood to stop an unjust jury award that gave the abortion giant millions of dollars.

As we battle to defeat Planned Parenthood and defend unborn babies in cases across the nation – including on Capitol Hill and at the Supreme Court – we need your support before our deadlines.

Jay Sekulow
ACLJ Chief Counsel

I Had a Dream: State of the Union Reaction

By |2020-02-14T19:36:50+00:00February 14th, 2020|Creative, House & Senate, Opinion|

A letter from one of our readers.

Marsha and I don’t have access to TV, so I get most of my news from radio and reading, and occasionally I’ll watch something online. I wanted to both hear and see the president’s State of the Union Address, so I went online Wednesday morning 2-4 am for the address on YouTube. When Trump entered, I enjoyed watching Nancy Bela Lugosi extend her hand and have to pull it back when no handshake was offered. I wish there had been a microphone on her to catch the moronic remarks she made to Mike Pence throughout the address with that stupid smile on her simpleton face. And when she ripped up the pages of the address, she only reaffirmed what a no-class dumb-ass broad she is without the slightest grasp of history being made – like the rest of the Washington Swamp, including the lamestream media. It was hilarious to watch the smug puss-face Democrats refuse to stand or even applaud as the Republicans and most of the audience stood again and again to give frequent standing ovations. It was especially satisfying to see Rush Limbaugh honored as part of the address – up yours, Upchuck Schumer! I thought the address was excellent, and at this point I have no doubt Trump will be reelected with a clear majority of both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote. In view of the sorry assortment of Democrat candidates, I wouldn’t be surprised if he sweeps every state.

I went to bed a little after 4 am, and I had a dream. I dreamed I climbed up the side of a high wooden bridge, and when I climbed over the railing, who was there but President Trump and his entourage. He greeted me cordially and invited me to come along and join him for a drink, which I did. A moment later we were sitting at a table, the president to my right. He was talking (I don’t recall about what), and at one point I responded to something he said, and he shot me a stern side glance. I immediately realized I had interrupted him, and I said, “Oh, I guess you’re not used to being interrupted.” He held his glare for a moment, then broke into a broad grin and patted my hand. “No, I’m not,” he said, “but maybe I should be.” Then he let out a big laugh.

What that means, I have no idea. Perhaps it has something to do with Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17. Or perhaps it only means I shouldn’t eat spicy food before bedtime. Who knows?

Liberty and hope: They’re what bind us together – Josh Gottheimer

By |2017-08-02T00:32:07+00:00August 2nd, 2017|House & Senate|

Over the first six months of my term, my staff and I visited all 79 towns of the 5th Congressional District, concluding our tour of businesses this week in the towns of Liberty and Hope.

As we celebrate Independence Day, it is the ideals of liberty and hope that speak to the core of who we are as a nation.

I’m honored to serve North Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this role, I’ve been lucky enough to see the best of New Jersey and the best of the United States: brave law enforcement officers and service members putting themselves in harm’s way to keep our families safe; communities coming together to support innovative small businesses and important causes; moms and dads celebrating milestones like graduations and retirements; citizens connecting with their elected officials and making their voices heard.

Even with all the challenges we face – and trust me, I know that list runs long – we live in the greatest country in the world.

My grandparents immigrated here from Russia and Germany; my wife’s grandparents came to the States after surviving the Holocaust. Our families weren’t here that fateful day 241 years ago when a brave group of colonists declared themselves to be independent and truths to be self-evident. Yet the promises contained in that declaration ring through our family – and all our families – to this day: that America remains the land of opportunity.

I’m the son of a man who started a small business in the basement of his house. He has lived the American dream. Like me, he still believes deeply in that dream – that we all are created equal, endowed with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Because of the wisdom and forethought of those Founders who took a stand in Philadelphia, I’m still optimistic that America’s best days lie ahead. Our Founders never thought running our country would be easy. After all, the preamble of our Constitution opens with “in order to form a more perfect Union.” In other words, America would be a work in progress. They designed it that way. Our Founders feared that, in the wrong moment, their work building the greatest democracy in history could be undone.

So they intentionally put a series of checks and balances in our Constitution, giving distinct roles to Congress and the president, including making it difficult to pass legislation. They were thinking about the long game. After all, they had fought hard risking their liberty and lives for America’s freedom from an oppressive and autocratic England; they didn’t want the same outcome here.

My point is that what we are living through now may be difficult, but it’s not the first time. We’ve had plenty of ups and downs in our nation’s history. Fortunately, America’s trend line has consistently pointed upward, and even in today’s environment that’s still the case.

There’s even the hit Broadway musical featuring our nation’s first Treasury secretary, who was shot and killed by the sitting vice president in a duel here in the Garden State that makes our current cable news duels seem tame by comparison.

While we’ve always had different points of view, there is a real difference between disagreeing on policy and pure obstructionism. There is a need to reach back to the collective good that we should be rowing together instead of fighting against one another.

Moving past the partisan arguments will take a commitment from all of us to actually reach across the lines that divide us and start talking with – rather than at – each other.

That’s what I’m trying to do in Congress. I am proud to serve as the co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of 21 Democrats and 21 Republicans who come together on a regular basis to look for areas of common ground and get things done. There are some areas where we may not ever agree, but on issues like cutting taxes, fixing our roads and bridges, and standing up for our veterans and first responders, there’s plenty of room to work together. After all, a broken bridge isn’t a Democratic or Republican issue; veterans live in rural and urban areas; and we all know we pay too much in taxes. These are just plain good for America issues.

I will continue to look for opportunities to reach across the aisle to get things done. This Independence Day, I ask you to join me. Reach out to your friends and neighbors, even those with whom you think you have little in common. Because we all share one important thing in common: We are American. And we all believe in liberty and hope.

Letter to Paul Ryan, Congress & President RE: Extended Vacations

By |2017-04-20T17:24:56+00:00April 20th, 2017|House & Senate|

Name

Address

April 20, 2017

Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House

1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515

 

Honorable Paul Ryan:

It was with utter shock and disgust that I discovered you and your colleagues of both parties are taking an extended vacation and only working 4 days during the month of April!!!  You just returned from a vacation and now you want to have the rest of America pay you for your lack of responsibility to your constituents? That’s actually insulting that you think we don’t see your lack of concern, responsibility and laziness.

This is a new president and supposedly a new congress & senate who have done little to meet the mandate of the American people since last November. There are still cabinet appointees and members not yet voted on & you go on vacation? You know exactly what you’re doing and that makes this even more reprehensible!

What you need to do is to stay in Washington until your work is complete and stay there until you have a full plate of legislation to pass or flunk. Your work ethics are so unsatisfactory that I would flunk all of you!

Shame on you and shame on the taxpayers for not having spoken up sooner. We are now and expect you all to stand up like responsible caring men and women of THE United States of America and be proud to call yourselves Congressmen by actually completing your job like the rest of America has to do or we’ll all go down. Set an example for the American people.  Set an example for our young people who have become more politically involved than the past generation.  They’re watching!  Your own children and grandchildren are watching YOU! What kind of legacy are you leaving all of us?

You are earning $223,500 a year or $4,298 a week!  I suggest that if you take 10 weeks off a year then you need to reduce your income by $42,980 per year.

Do NOT write back telling me that you needed to have a Town Hall with us. I know better! So do you!

 

Disgusted and Angry beyond words,

xxxx

 

Cc: www.WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates.org

CC: Senator Bob Menendez

CC: Senator Cory Booker

CC: Congressman Josh Gottheimer

CC: Mitch McConnell, Senator Majority Leader

CC: President Donald Trump

NSA Spy Program Targets Israel, Congress

By |2015-12-30T19:02:33+00:00December 30th, 2015|House & Senate, International|

So much for scaling back surveillance.  The Wall Street Journal just reported that the Obama administration has been monitoring communications by the US’s closest ally in the Middle East, Israel.  Making matters even worse, the surveillance has included private conversations with members of Congress.

The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders and officials also swept up the contents of some of their private conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups. That raised fears—an “Oh-s— moment,” one senior U.S. official said—that the executive branch would be accused of spying on Congress.

White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign. They also recognized that asking for it was politically risky. So, wary of a paper trail stemming from a request, the White House let the NSA decide what to share and what to withhold, officials said. “We didn’t say, ‘Do it,’ ” a senior U.S. official said. “We didn’t say, ‘Don’t do it.’ ”

Whether they said “do it” or not, this is a major embarrassment for the Obama administration.  Using national security resources to gain a political advantage is something that should be off limits, paper trail or no.

By |2015-12-21T03:27:47+00:00December 21st, 2015|House & Senate, Politics|

Cromnibus Christmas!

Is House Speaker Paul Ryan really just “Boehner with a beard”? Your elected officials want you to have a wonderful Christmas. They hope you are out busily planning and shopping, cooking and wrapping presents! They hope you are so full of “Joy to the World” that you haven’t stopped to see what they put under the… (more…)

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