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Dear Senator Brown,

You, sir, should count your blessings that you are not up for re-election at this time. I just finished reading your USA Today op-ed, and let me tell you sir, you are a piece of work. I have never been so furious with you as I am right now – and I’ve been pretty hacked off at you on many occasions. You have some nerve, writing an article like that, an article that calls at least half of your constituents – no, your employers – racist, hateful, cowering fear mongers. I can promise you, Mr Brown, when you are up for re-election next, there will be a cavalry of fed-up Conservative, TEA party and independent types lining up to steamroll you right out of office. You are a disgrace to the great state of Ohio and should be ashamed of yourself. You are also the poster child for the repeal of the 17th Amendment – but that’s a subject for another time.

I don’t know why I am surprised that you felt the need to write an article that rehashes the same old worn out Progressive talking points. Don’t you all have any fresh ideas? YOU, sir, are the one peddling FEAR, not us. YOU are the one praying on the victim status of minorities to bolster your agenda, trapping them in an unending cycle of low expectations and government shackles, not us. YOU are the one pushing the same old policies that “got us here in the first place” through Fannie, Freddie, and Big Labor, not us.  It is YOU that stokes the “fear” of big government, not us. YOUR actions and attempts to regulate everything we do, eat, buy, drive and watch all “for our own good” are what is driving the engine of the TEA Party and you would do well to open your eyes and do a little soul searching before you go belittling the very people who pay your damn salary!

You see, we understand that it is not a big government and you fat-cat politicians who drive the economy, make jobs, create wealth – it is the individual. Government destroys wealth. Government coupled with Big Labor is what drives corporations off shore, not us. Most corporations know that we have the best work force on earth, but for many of them, the costs associated with employing that workforce are so overwhelming ( thanks to your Union special interest cronies, Health Care bill and other over-reaching and asinine regulations) that they have little choice but to go elsewhere. You refuse to even entertain the notion that lowering corporate taxes, reigning in the blood-sucking Unions, and relaxing regulations might drive job creation here. It’s much more productive to blame the Republicans for “shipping jobs overseas”, isn’t it? How is that tactic working out for the 10.3% of Ohioans that are unemployed, huh?

You are so proud of your progressive laws that, you claim, “move the country forward”. Senator Brown, if you were honest with yourself and Ohioans, you would know that, for instance, the Minimum Wage laws actually have a demonstrable negative effect on employment in retail and small businesses, adversely affecting low-skilled and young workers disproportionately. According to some studies, when minimum wages rise by 10%, employment for 16-19 yr olds falls by as much as 11.1 percent. How does that look now, Senator Brown? When you force a small business, or a business with a small profit margin, to increase their wages when the market forces to not warrant it, those employers have two choices: Raise their prices, thereby possibly losing customers and affecting their bottom line even more, or fire some employees. They will also not be able to hire any new employees either. Yep, that certainly moves us forward, doesn’t it?

Then again, if you knew anything about business, you’d be a Conservative, wouldn’t you? However, since you are a career politician, why would I expect you to know anything about profits, losses, overhead and the costs involved in complying with crippling government regulations? Try getting a job, in the private sector, where you have to earn your keep,  where you have to provide something of value to an employer, or try putting your own blood sweat and tears into a business, only to have the tax bill crush your spirit and your payroll at the end of the year, forcing you to choose between laying off a loyal employee or losing your business altogether.

Social Security – yeah, there’s a feather in your progressive cap. Everyone under the age of fifty knows that Social security is a ponzi scheme and will not be there for us when we retire.  You progressives let a program that was meant as an insurance program turn into a entitlement program for every Tom, Dick and Jane that has a bad back, an infected hang nail, or a chronic bad mood that prevents them from working. Most of the people who receive their SSI benefits will receive far more than they paid into the system. Simple math tells us that this is unsustainable and, if tried in the private sector – would be illegal. Well,except for the Union pensions, that is.

Civil Rights – how quickly you forget that it was your “progressive” friends Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd who led the charge against the Civil Rights bill. The voting records show that the Republican party consistently voted FOR the act by a margin of 80%-20%, where the Democratic party had a margin of 65%-35%. Pound for pound, point for point, the Republican party has been the party of civil rights. You progressives have succeeded in confusing the populace, by convincing them that voting more and more entitlements for minorities and other victim classes is the same as affording them more civil rights, thereby hijacking the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be profoundly ashamed of what the progressives have done in the name of equal justice and civil rights.

On the subject of immigration – you show your true colors when you say in your article that “conservatives have appealed to fear to protect the privileged and preserve the status quo — fear of immigrants..” You have removed any doubt that you are nothing more than a hack for the DNC and the only way you know how to fight is by using race as your sword. What an incredible disservice to the legal immigrants of this great nation. You should be profoundly ashamed. This is the go to tactic of all you self-proclaimed progressives. Use the words “fear” and “immigrants” in a sentence, and you succeed in calling your opponents “racist” without using the words. You have failed to notice, though, that this old, stale tactic is no longer working and only makes you look desperate and divisive.

Let me tell you, Mr Brown, that not one single Conservative that I know is “afraid” of immigrants. We know our history, sir, and we know that we are a nation of immigrants. What we do not want are illegal immigrants who sneak across the border, overburden our system, take jobs away from legal citizens and immigrants, and have no desire to assimilate and become American citizens. America can not sustain that kind of immigration, Mr Brown. Not to mention, illegal immigration is modern day slavery – low skilled, low paid workers working outside the system with few protections and few recourses if they are injured. The arguments that our agricultural system would collapse, or food prices would rise, or restaurants would have to charge more if illegals were suddenly deported is dangerously close to the arguments that those old rich white slave owners used to fight the end of slavery in the 1800′s. Yes, Mr. Brown – you are no better than the slave owners of the past if you can’t see the difference between legal and illegal immigration, and demonizing those who hold the opposing viewpoint is the exact thing those slave owners did way back when. Chew on that one for a while, why don’t you?

You see, Mr Brown, we TEA party and Conservative types understand our history – you do not. We understand the dangers that go hand in hand with big government because we have chosen to listen to the past and learn from it. You have chosen to remain ignorant of our unique history and what made this American experiment so successful. You would do well to pick up a history book yourself, Mr. Brown. You are leading us down a dangerous path, and we are not going to go quietly. I promise you – you will not win this battle. America is so much greater than you can even imagine, so get out of our way and let us move this nation forward in a way that will lift ALL Americans up, not just the ones who will vote for you next election. Remember, Sir, that this is a government of WE THE PEOPLE, not YOU THE ELITE, and we will not sit down and shut up any longer.

I sincerely look forward to seeing you lose your job in the near future, Senator Brown. Ohio and all of America will rejoice and will emerge stronger than ever, despite you and your precious Progressives.

Signed,

Your Employer – Lynne Lammers of Delaware OH.