Latest Letter To The Editor

Below is the latest letter I submitted to the Del Rio News-Herald:

Del Rio, you have a choice to make. Several, in fact. Allow me to appeal to you on two fronts. First, fiscally. Now, I freely admit I had a number of serious issues with the Bush administration and the whole lot of Republicans in power. As far as I'm concerned, they were mostly big government Progressives and their spending proved that. In 2006 the Democrats took control of Congress and made it worse. Now we find ourselves becoming slaves to the state. More people on welfare, more people on Medicare/Medicaid, more people on food stamps, Social Security and,tragically, socialized health care is nearly upon us. Doubt that we are becoming slaves? Look at what's happening in Europe. They are rioting because government wants to raise the retirement age. Look at what happens when anyone dares say they will touch Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Near panic! Why? Complete dependency. This is what people like Ciro Rodriguez are striving for. And who pays? With virtually no opposition, people like Ciro Rodriguez, who never met a socialist program he didn't like, drummed up another $1.4 TRILLION deficit, which increased the overall DEBT to nearly $14 TRILLION. Ciro Rodriguez has consistently voted to enslave you to the federal government to pay off this debt. The more successful you are, the more you pay at a much higher rate. How is this moral? How is this fair? Ciro voted for TARP. What do we have to show for it? Nothing but debt and no change in unemployment. Ciro voted for the socialist health care law. What do we have to show for it? He didn't even read the bill. He lied to us the entire time about what it would mean to us. The result is increased debt, higher premiums, backdoor funding of abortion and now businesses are piling on to say they will need to drop their own health plans. Ciro refused to do anything to jettison Fannie and Freddie (the REAL reasons for the economic meltdown)--and now he's on board to take $300 Billion from you and give it to them! Is this how you run your household?

Now, let me appeal to you on the spiritual side. For many of you this will fall on deaf years, sad to say. But for those who have ears, let them hear. How do you reconcile supporting any elected official who openly and vigorously supports the killing of the unborn? Jeremiah 1:5 "I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb, before you were born I set you apart;" Psalm 139:13-16 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I
praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know
that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Ciro has consistently voted against any effort to curb abortions and voted to defund providers who refuse to do abortions. He has voted in favor of getting rid of the death penalty for crimes, but heartlessly votes in favor of cloning humans, destroying embryos to for experimentation. He has voted consistently to prevent the public display of the 10 Commandments--even though they serve as the basis for most of our laws. They were good enough for our nation to be built upon, but something to be ashamed of where Ciro is concerned?

Citizens, all the wasted spending, all the eroding of our freedoms, the gradually enslaving of this country to the federal government has gotten us nowhere. We cannot let this continue. You should absolutely fear when a politician wants to give you something. It is NEVER free. It always comes with a price....and with this current administration, the price is one we cannot afford. I say to Ciro and the rest: keep your 30 pieces of silver.