Rep. Neugebauer on Obamacare and The Farm Bill

Open email to Rep. Neugebauer (TX):

Dear representative Neugebauer,
    I have read your latest Newsletter and am unhappy.
    Our objective has been to cripple Obamacare by defunding it. As I see it, your proposal kicks the can down the road.
    The Continuing Resolution (CR) is standard operating procedure for funding government. In digital terms, it is the default.
    Your proposed bill with 42 supporters attempts to protect savings from the sequester and prioritizes funding for veterans and national defense. In effect, you are watering down the issue, and your proposed bill has little chance of ever seeing the light of day. Pres. Obama plays hardball, and with this proposal, he will knock you out of the pitcher's box.
    Your best bet is to try to get the amendment to defund Obamacare onto the Continuing Resolution. As I recall, this is Sen. Cruz's strategy. If you and your associates try to pull off this alternative, you weaken the opportunity for Sen. Cruz's strategy to be effective.
    You need the defund Obamacare amendment on the Continuing Resolution. If the Continuing Resolution then does not pass, either because of the Senate or the President, they will be responsible for the government shutdown. The White House and the Senate Democrats will claim loudly to the contrary, and it will become a shouting match on who did it. Republicans have traditionally been poor on the shouting, as compared to the much more vociferous Democrats, who also use the technique of personal attacks. Therefore, you not only need a defund Obamacare amendment on the Continuing Resolution, but you need to be prepared to out-shout the Democrats, if there is a shutdown
    if you cave on this issue, you will have accomplished nothing of significance. Sequestration has done very little with respect to balancing the budget, and we daily increase the national debt by large amounts. If you can't face up to hardball on defunding Obamacare, what chance do you have of saving the country from financial disaster, as it continues to spend and eventually arrive at the position of having no borrowing credit. Please let remit me remind you that the Soviet Union went bust, because it outspent its capability to finance its operations.. The Soviet Union collapsed down to Russia. Is your strategy to collapse the United States down only to the state of Texas?


    Conversely, you have done a good job in separating the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Snap) from the farm programs of the Farm Bill. This puts the spotlight on another "Entitlement Program", which is well-intentioned to satisfy the compassion of the American taxpayer. However, we all know now that programs, such as SNAP, primarily weaken the will and determination of the average American citizen, who accepts such entitlement. As you continue to point out fraud and abuse, in the SNAP program, please do not forget to include what I have just said concerning the weakening of resolve and independence of American citizens.