The American people, your constituents, are suffering. We have all sat back and watched as all of you have made a mockery of this great country. As a nation, we waited months for you and your colleagues to pass legislation that was supposed to help the America that all of you claim to love so much while we learned the majority of funds went to other countries and to rehabilitate museums.
The same people who supposedly represent us in government fought to impeach a president days before he was no longer a president. This ridiculous waste of time shows the whole world what is important to all of you and your colleagues: yourselves and your self-interests. So please stop pretending that you are doing this for the American people. Stop using us as your pawns.
While you have been collecting a steady paycheck, as of writing this letter, my small business in Nipomo has not been able to be open for 199 days, even though the state of California licenses me in sanitation and I have 15 years of experience in sanitization. I operate a pristine work environment where I see one client at a time, yet I cannot work.
Still, thousands of people walk through the doors of Costco, Home Depot, and Lowe’s every day while their cashiers have, most likely, never had a day of infectious disease training. Thousands of people walk shoulder to shoulder in these places while I am told I am not essential, my family is not essential, my career is not essential.
Mr. Carbajal, what is it that you do exactly? Why should my non-essential tax dollars go to pay your salary that you have been receiving the whole 199 days that my small business has been ordered closed in your district?
Now is your chance! Make this an opportunity to reach across the aisle and work together. Finally, put partisan politics aside, stop worrying about getting elected, and think about all the people who live in your district. Speak against bills that don’t serve the American people, like the stimulus bill, and make your constituents know you did so. Speak up against big tech that is censoring us on the internet. Do things to unite us, not divide us.
Keri McMillan
Nipomo
This article appears in Health and Wellness 2021.
Great letter and I’m sorry for your business loss Ms McMillan and don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t essential. Frequently, the team blue playbook is to regulate and control your life and change the rules so that you can’t achieve success without their help. That way they create an underclass that they can claim to represent. You were succeeding and now they’ve rolled back your progress and made you await their next serving of “help”, when the help you need is quite simple and obvious. Instead you’ve got the promise of stimulus with a bill that is largely filled with problems (and poor solutions to those problems) that pre-existed Covid-19. It’s too bad our parties aren’t bringing all the best ideas forward.
No one, including Salud knows what he does and why he being paid for it. As a mouthpiece for Pelosi, he has no original thoughts or actions. We had a chance to make a change several times, yet he continues to win elections handily.
Finally!! a clan of idiots has figured out the important questions.
John, Patrick, Carol and all voters,
Remember this: Recognizing the name on the ballot is not how to decide where to place your ‘X’. Politicians have one goal – to stay in that position of power as long as possible with an eye on a higher position of power to follow. What they say in public [and do while in office] is carefully crafted to appeal to as many of you, the voters, that ensures election and re-election. Don’t be fooled. Look into the core beliefs of every name on ballot before deciding how to cast your vote.
To Gail Katherine Lightfoot and all Libertarians: The Libertarian Party represents 0.74% of California’s registered voters for a reason. Your platform and ideals do not appeal to us. What do you have to give us? Deregulation of laws that protect citizens and the environment. Party leaders who fraternize with right-wing extremist groups. A fiscally conservative agenda that supports “trickle down” economics that has failed workers and led to the fading of the middle class.