TO: Obama, Pelosi, Reid. Schumer, Killibrand, Bishop, Durbin, Romer

Christina Romer, Council of Economic Advisors Chair, seems to be as sweet a lady as the grandmothers that I've met at the Tea Party rallies in Washington. She's bright and articulate and her observations in "Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast" seem to be well researched. Steven J. Davis, in his comments about her paper, points out the benefits of VAT and Cap and Trade as being less visible to taxpayers than the income and other taxes and "would lead to a large expansion of the size of government" at marginal cost – preferable to your political tribe but anathema to the rest of us.

Christina's January 10, 2010 interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC on possible job growth by spring seems naively optimistic – this administration's mishaps are destroying the confidence of the people.

Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, said that the system worked after a jihadist terrorist was thwarted by airplane passengers on December 25, 2009. It took days for President Obama to address the issue and then he only acknowledged that there was a war on Al Qaeda (leaving out the Taliban and other enemies of America). Michael Leiter, National Counterterrorism Center director, skied instead of reporting for duty.

The health care debacle has resulted in Harry Reid's bribes being referred to as part of the "art of compromise". He added, "if they [senators] don't have something in it important to them, then it doesn't speak well of them – that's what this legislation is all about."

Nancy Pelosi displayed the acting ability of Lucille Ball to almost tearfully equate the peaceful September 12 demonstration by a loose confederation of citizens at a Tea Party event in Washington with the violence and turmoil in San Francisco in the '70s. This past week she displayed the quick wit of Gracie Burns when asked about televising health the care debate. When reminded about the number of promises that presidential candidate Obama made to televise the proceedings on C-span, she replied, “There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail.” He also promised not to raise taxes on the middle class and now we union members are worried about taxes on our health insurance policies.

We citizens are making sacrifices while our political elite party at the White House. Pete Souza's photographs of the ”Fiesta Latina" and the "Stevie Wonder" White House Performances show the divide between your political tribe and the rest of us. While you party, we citizens struggle to feed the hungry.











Christina Romer's misplaced optimism on ABC lacks the common sense of most Americans. Business people do not have confidence in the future to commit to hiring more people. The expiration of tax deductions from federal tax returns, the rapidly expanding deficit and national debt, the unbounded expansion of government, uncertain future taxes and regulations as well as Congress and White House dirty politics cast suspicion on your intentions.


David McCullough, in his book, Truman, provides a code of conduct that all of you should strive to meet:

"Ambitious by nature, he was never torn by ambition, never tried to appear as something he was not. He stood for common sense, common decency. He spoke the common tongue. As much as any president since Lincoln, he brought to the highest office the language and values of the common American people. He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear."