Dear Senator Kirk,
I was annoyed and disappointed by your recent “Wastebook on Facebook” email. You really felt it worth my time to send me an email to 'call out' a puny two million wasted dollars in the federal budget?! Knowing the approximate size of the federal budget I have reason to take offense at your measure of my intelligence. Your inference that cutting those little programs addresses “one of the key threats to the future of our country” is like suggesting that a working couple facing foreclosure can save their home if they start ordering the Grande instead of the Venti latte at Starbucks.
If we want to get serious about cutting the budget I have some other programs I’d like to discuss. Let’s start with the $33 billion dollars we spend each year in military aid to Israel. I would like the Isreali Defense Forces to pay us back for every single American missile that went off target killing innocent civilians in 2008-2009 Gaza Incursion. I think that should be more than enough to pay for internet dating studies, Grateful Dead archives and poetry in zoos. Frankly, I could use some peaceful walks in the zoo to recuperate from the disgust I feel watching my elected representatives equivocate about asymmetrical attacks on civilian populations.
You are a thoughtful, intelligent politician and I expect more of you than this rhetorical rubbish.
Thank you for your service,
HW
Constituent, voter
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