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Over the past year the federal government has passed three bills designed to "correct" the problem caused by federal government improper meddling in the private sector. Now we're being told by government spokesmen that the current economic recession is the consequence of a private sector that doesn't work and the solution is for the federal government to spend our way out of this recession/depression. Yet each one of the three previous bills that were progressively larger and designed to make things better, resulted in just the opposite -- things got worse. In all instances the federal government spent money it did not have.

Now they're poised to spend even more with the expectation of a different result! Friends, that is a classic definition of "insanity." Not only is it insane, it is the highest order of fiscal irresponsibility.

As a child, I often wondered how the German people allowed their government to by taken over by the Nazis. Now I have a better understanding. Promises of a brighter future, a better world, a recovery from economic troubles (caused by bad government decisions) turned into complete loss of liberty and the world's most costly global conflict, World War II. While not likely to cause another world war, current actions by the federal government are destined to bring depression, severe hardship, further financial collapse, and a real threat of political revolution.

Two recent examples (one in California, the other by the Federal Reserve) reveal that there are no buyers for government bonds other than the governments issuing them -- in other words, the illusion of money is being created where there is none. This is a Ponzi scheme that makes the Bernard Madoff scandal seem like child's play in comparison. These are not comforting realizations.

With no buyers for federal bonds, how does the Treasury plan to cover this nearly $1 trillion "stimulus" pork package? By printing money. If you think stocks are down now, just wait until Carter-era economic stagnation and hyper-inflation returns as a consequence of this bad spending plan. And you thought things couldn't get worse?

Now is the time to speak out. Tomorrow will be too late.

Following is the text of a message I've sent to Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins, each GOP senators poised to vote in support of the pork and special-interest laden massive "Stimulus" spending bill financed by money we do not have:

Our Declaration of Independence states, in part: "... Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ...".

I urge you to bear those words in mind before you vote to support the current pork and special-interest laden "stimulus package" that is little more than a thinly-disguised attempt to purchase votes at enormous cost.

Please reflect on what should be obvious: every previous federal spending binge in the name of "economic stimulus" has made things worse, not better. Judged on that basis, the current bill will throw this nation into deep recession or depression, just at a time when economic indicators (lowered new unemployment claims, retail sails increase, real estate sales increase, mortgage foreclosure decrease) suggest a turning point has been reached and the economy is poised to move off the bottom and start recovering without further federal intervention.

Quite frankly, Ronald Reagan was right on the mark when he stated the obvious, that government is the problem, not the solution. The overheated real estate market could have been avoided had Congress been exercising proper oversight rather than encouraging bad loan practices. The real estate bust led to the financial crisis that brought down the global economy. Congress has nobody to blame but their own re-election greed.

Should GOP members of Congress fail to exercise restraint by standing down and blocking passage of any counter-productive "stimulus" plan, the words cited above from our Declaration of Independence will echo even louder among the populace. Don't think for one minute that the People cannot speak with sufficient unity to end the reign of this Imperial Congress of self-serving politicians.

Please do your part to restore respect for our founding principles and the US Constitution so that our future is not clouded with economic depression and even worse political upheaval.

I urge you to vote against this and any other "stimulus" plan involving massive federal spending of money we do not have!

Respectfully and sincerely,