Dear Mr. President & Members of Congress:<\/strong><\/p>\nAt first I ignored the news reports of the rancor. Politics as usual, I figured. But now you all have taken this ugly bi-partisan bickering way too far.<\/p>\n
Your job, as you were hired to do it, is to represent the good people of America.<\/p>\n
If I performed my job anywhere near the way you all go about performing yours, my boss would boot my butt . But like millions of others, I don\u2019t have a paying job. I lost mine due to the economic fallout of 2008. You do remember that, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
My point being this economy has been anemic under more than one president. Got that Congress?<\/p>\n
Not that that\u2019s any excuse Mr. President. When you said you were going to bring change to this nation, economic collapse was not the change I was hoping for.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m fed up with the whole lot of you and your partisan approach to government. We are the people of America. One nation. Under God. Indivisible.<\/p>\n
It appears that you all forgot that pledge.<\/p>\n
Consider this a warning of sorts. Or a petition, if you must. I\u2019m just saying that you all need do the job you were hired to do. And if you can\u2019t, then I, for one, and I suspect plenty of others, will be more than happy to hand you the pink slip.<\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t settle this debt issue, \u00a0and you put this country at risk of further economic fallout, then every single one of you deserves to be fired.<\/p>\n
Good luck collecting unemployment once that happens.<\/p>\n
A Voter,<\/p>\n
Karen Spears Zacharias<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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