Hello I’m Joshua Brown, I’m 13 years old. My corrupt Congressman is Republican Doug LaMalfa (CA-01). The other day I told him he has no idea what’s going on in the real world. Read…
Dear Congressman LaMalfa
Thank you for sending me an email update. I always like to hear from you and every one of my elected representatives. I read your email and I have so much to say to you that it was tough to pick a message category so I just chose "Congress. Congressman LaMalfa, I am begging you to take this to Washington and push for it instead of ignoring it or sending me back an email saying only why you disagree.
Mr. LaMalfa, I have long been concerned that your actions are way out of touch with the needs of the American people. I think you're a good man, I just think you don't know what's going on in the real world. I want you to do something and I mean this seriously, come with me to California and meet some actual people. Come to my political meetings, they'd love nothing more than for you to show up and listen to them.
Millionaires and billionaires, night clubs and cocktail parties are not real America, they are the exception to America. We have a very wide gap between the rich and the poor and we live in a society in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and your excuse is that they create jobs. No sir, they pocket it. If you give the Wal-tons or the Koch brothers $10000, they will just pocket it. But if you give it to me, I'll use it and maybe buy a new stove. That would be an economy in which me, an ordinary person, creates several jobs in the process of installing a stove.
The wall street financial crisis was a clue. If we keep going like this, we'll have another crash and that will lead to a depression. We'll be back here in a few years and you won't understand why your economic policy didn't work out and I'll say I told you so.
On the specific subject of your email update, I find it quite fascinating how your cuts to social programs and funds to the military and defense are the same actions that a business owner might take to grow business. Business owners look for ways to cut corners so that they can bring in more product.
Here's the problem, America is not a private owned business. Donald Trump is not the CEO of America. Unlike a business owner, you and Trump have an obligation to fund and have no right to act among yourselves. Also like the actions of a business owner, your actions are harmful & dangerous and the reasons for your actions are harmful & dangerous as well.
US involvement in other countries usually end up making things worse. I believe war & attacks on other countries are never the #1 solution. You're trying to get other countries to respect us by not respecting them. Giving the Department of Defense $658.1 billion, giving $88.8 billion for military construction, giving energy and water development $37.6 billion, and giving Homeland Security $1.6 billion???
You're cutting health care & social programs to give a pay raise for troops, maintain U.S. military superiority, training, equipment, facility maintenance, base operations, military development, weapons, modernize equipment, target resources for the development of new military capabilities, construct military infrastructure, fund nuclear weapon programs, give money to the army corps of engineers, and SECURE THE SOUTHERN BOARDER??? You also say you want to give veterans health care. Your opposition to single-payer healthcare, universal healthcare, and the Affordable Care Act is another way you're actions are similar to that of a private business owner. The Trump wall is expensive and ineffective...
The only way other countries will respect us is if we stop trying to kill/hurt them. Why don't we mind our own business??? By the way, our business is social programs. Then you say you want to set up sanctions in Russia, Iran, and North Korea. You wanna be tough against Russia??? WHY ARE YOU LETTING RUSSIA HACK OUR MOST DEMOCRATIC PROCESS!?!?!?!?!? I fail to understand the purpose of the Iran sanctions other than it's a power struggle. We have a history of trying to attack Iran, quit and maybe we won't have a terrorism problem. North Korea is developing these missiles and we need to organize a peace treaty. If they see us as a country that wants to attack them, they'll attack us.
See, these steps that you're taking are making things worse. Just a few decades ago, your party was calling Russia the "evil empire." Now the evil empire hacked our election and you're totally fine with it... What happened to your party?