I have been having a conversation with my republican representative over his stand on the Obama administration and the raising of the debt ceiling.

He, being a republican is against it, obviously.

So I sent him an email voicing my opinion...

I do that at times. I did it to 'my' state representative so much that he started blocking my email! Yes, in the Great State of Michigan, there are people too busy to have their staff read through emails from actual constituents! Amazing, ain't it...

So, my original email (and if I can find it, I'll add it below, solicited the following response:

Thank you for contacting me.

I appreciate knowing your views regarding legislation to raise the federal debt limit. As you may know, federal law sets a limit on the amount of debt the federal government is allowed to take on. As the debt grows, Congress must pass legislation to raise tis limit. If an increase in the debt limit is not enacted by August 2, 2011, the United States risks defaulting on its debt obligations.

Let me be clear: I do not support and will not vote for a debt limit increase that does not contain significant spending cuts and budgetary reforms. Our current path is unsustainable and unacceptable. We must force Washington to live within its means, and any deal on the debt limit should include real reforms including entitlement programs like Medicare.

The president's budget calls for a $2.4 trillion increase in the debt limit through the end of next year. The Presidnet and over 100 Congressional Democrats have called for a "clean" extension of the debt limit without any accompanying spending cuts or entitlement reforms. To illustrate that this is not the approach favored by the majority of the House of Representatives or the majority of the American people, I filed legislation that allowed the House to reject a clean increase in the debt limit. This bill was rightly rejected by a vote of 97-318. This overwhelming rebuke proves to the American people, the financial markets, and the Administration that House Republicans are serious about tackling our debt and deficit problems.

In the House's 2012 budget, Republicans put forward bold solutions to deal with the nation's spending crisis. It is time for the President to come to the table and join us in talking about specific policy solutions. In the coming weeks, I remain committed to working with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to enact bold spending reduction and entitlement reforms that end Washington's "borrow now and pay later" attitude. To this end, I welcome your continued comments and suggestions.

Thank you again for contacting me.

Sincerely,

DAVE CAMP

Member of Congress

And, being the good constituent that I am, I took him up on his statements in his mailed, and transcribed, message in my response"

Thank you for your recent response. I do understand the concerns over the budget and spending. That is why I am sure that your office could provide me with the information on your 7 votes to extend the debt ceiling while George W. Bush was president. I am also sure that your staff can find your no votes on the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and the Medicare Drug Benefit that were all 'off budget' funded. I am sure that you had a hard time standing up to your republican colleagues as they voted to throw all of that and much more onto the debt. I am sure that a man who believes as you state in you letter would have fought the level of spending that was occurring under the Bush administration. So much of it was such outrageous waste and added to the deficit. I am also sure that your staff can find all of your votes against the massive Bush era tax cuts that occurred while all of this reckless spending was happening. To a man that takes the budget and 'reckless spending' so seriously, you had to have been up late at night fighting for the 'little guy'. Right? So which is it, Mr. Camp: Are you a politician that stands up for what is right for this country against the reckless spending and galloping deficit of the Bush administration, or are you a political hack angry because a black democrat was elected president and you want to be part of even more reckless spending and creating a more out of sight budget deficit. I would really like to believe in the former, but I know that the real reason you are so pissed at the 'out of control spending' is because it's not a republican in the White House doing the spending. Are you a political hack, reckless ideologue, or do you actually believe the crap your staff sends out to constituents on taxpayer funded pieces of paper? I won't hold my breath for the answer, but I'll be waiting for the response with baited breath. I need a good laugh...

Now, after transcribing his mailed message to me, I really can't believe the balls this man has. Most of that should earn him a lightening bolt from the heavens... What a hack.

It's obvious that they want to cut entitlements because they feel that they can because in large part they or their families won't have to depend on those 'entitlements' to try to survive.

I think, perhaps the way to 'fix' Congress is to require those politicians to live on welfare and food stamps and bar them from taking any political contributions EVER! Make them live on below-poverty federal assistance. Make them have to come up with the money on their own for the private schools and 'special accomidations' that many feel 'entitled' to. Let's take away THEIR 'entitlements', and their lobbyist soaked (cough cough) 'contributions', and trips...

See how Dave Camp likes living from government check to check. See how HE likes sending his kids to the Midland Michigan public schools. See how HE likes having to cough up the money to fly to Ireland to play golf!

I guess what I'm more than tired of is the lying. Why can't Dave Camp and the conressional republicans just say that they are pissed that a N-gger democrat was elected (in a mistake) and took their 'inside man' out of the running at the federal treasury.

I mean, just imagine the stunning world stage presence of John McCain and Sarah Palin running around fleecing the Social Security trust fund and torpedoing both Medicare and Medicaid! Imagine the smog filled skys and pollution filled rivers and streams under the jaundiced eye of a GOP/corporate controlled EPA. Imagine the massed numbers of people out of work and whos unemployment would not have been extended even once. I shudder to imagine the effect of Caribou Barbie on the Iraq/Afghanistan wars... Would we be in North Korea? Lebanon? Cuba? Venesuela? Grenada? (Oops, wrong president, right party) Think about it...

What if the terrorists are domestic. And they sit on Washington DC? Why the focus to cut the deficit now? Why cut it on the middle and lower classes backs? Hmmm...

Oh! I found my original email! Here it is:

A no vote to raise the debt ceiling is not a 'vote for America' that I'd want to live in. How can you claim to be working 'for America' when you continue to play chicken with the economy and risk sending millions of people out into the street. I don't know how you can sleep at night. You who actually assisted in the mess that you now pin on President Obama. You who was nicknamed 'Rubber Stamp Camp' for voting to add so much to the US National Debt. You are not an American. You are a disgrace. The kind of country you and people like you want is not the America our soldiers like my father fought to defend. And to predicate aid for Joplin on whether there are cuts to 'balance them out' is nothing short of cruelty. So much for defending the constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, ehh...

I guess I'd be tempted to block my emails if I was in office but I am a constituent and my voice should count for SOMETHING, even if it's just a notation that I oppose what this hack is doing, and to alert the security if I ever show up in his office, although I am no threat to him...