Dear James Otis

This patriot from Boston is the man most closely associated with the quote "Taxation without representation is tyranny." He would agree that our legislators have proven to us that taxation with representation is not any better. As this fine man represented the great state of Massachusetts, this edition of the blog will focus on their representatives.

Senators Kennedy and Kerry have a combined 70 years representing Massachusetts. This fact alone should make the case for term limits but when we look a the records of these gentlemen we see a duo that is at the very core of the deficit spending that has plunged us into the current state of our union as they have collaborated on many attempts to spend our money and raise our taxes. Sen. Edward Kennedy is the Godfather of Universal Health Care, having presented this virtually every year since his election during the Kennedy administration. Sen. John Kerry has been a highly adept student of Sen. Kennedy with continual votes on laws that have increased the federal deficit and programs that have led our country to it's current, unsustainable level of spending. This includes Senate Amendment 739 which Sen. Kerry voted against on 3/31/2009 which proposed:

To prohibit the consideration of any budget resolution, or amendment thereto, or conference report thereon, that shows an increase in the public debt, for the period of the current fiscal year through the next 10 years, equal to or greater than the debt accumulated from 1789 to January 20, 2009.

The Massachusetts members of the House of Representatives are not faring any better with consistent Yes votes on TARP, Stimulus and the quietly done but typical for our representatives, HR 2634 which the House passed on 4/16/2008. The Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2008. What this wonderful piece of legislation is designed to do is forgive 1/2 billion dollars in debts that other countries owe us. It goes a step further in that it states that the United States is now on the hook for another Billion dollars in guarantees to the IMF and World Bank for the loans of other low income countries.

So thank you Massachusetts for making the job of replacing you as the representatives even easier. The research did not uncover any instances of similar generosity toward any American citizens or businesses. This should make the people of the State of Massachusetts wonder just whose side their representatives are really on.

Just another reason why we need to vote them all out of work.

To show that I am not here to pick on Democrats, tomorrow we will examine the the failings of the Oklahoma contingent which is very heavily Republican.