Represented Neugebauer's Newsletter

Open e-mail to Rep. Neugebauer:

Randy,

I read your newsletter.

We all agree that Obama's job proposal is the same old, same old. I believe we are whistling in the dark when we expect the Super Committee to come up with $1.5 trillion spending cuts. I hope also that Obama's efforts to develop economic class warfare in the country will fail. We need a unified approach to big problems. Taxing the rich will not do the job and would only make the unemployment situation worse, as those with capital find other countries more amenable to investment.

Since the above efforts are bound not to be effective, we must be wary of subsequent techniques used by Marxists. These are to prohibit movement of capital to other countries, and to confiscate the assets of specified organizations and individuals. Both these procedures were used by Egypt about 1958. I'm not sure how you can protect the country from these developments if Obama wants to put them into effect. He controls the Justice Department and the Military and it seems that Congress's hands are tied. Is this where the arming of the militia comes into effect?

You note that the EPA continues to push sustainable development to the economic disadvantage of the country. You also seem to like the idea that we should continue pursuing innovative ideas that allow us to do more with fewer resources. May I inject a word of caution? That type of philosophy is generally "defeatist". There's no question that we should be against waste in any form, whether it is in energy, manpower, or whatever. We should always work efficiently with maximum use of our assets. At the present time we are not doing that, with respect to our energy resources. We have ample reserves of oil, which are not being developed. That is no reason why we should be on a particularly conservative program of reducing oil consumption. The reverse is true. We should be developing more oil for increased use.

With respect to the Palestinian request to the UN for state recognition, it is a ridiculous proposal that has been encouraged by our Muslim favored President. A state/country must have physical boundaries. That is, it must have control of land area, which the Palestinian population does not now have. They have been offered this possibility with the conciliation that they will not use their newfound benefits in conducting war with their neighbors. They have temporarily refused this offer, which I believe is continually available to them. There is a greater likelihood of a peaceful Middle East, if they were to accept the offer. Unfortunately, Obama has encouraged them to do otherwise.