This pisses me off

I found this in my e-mail earlier this evening. A message from newly elected Congressman Mike Pompeo - (see below for my reply)

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Subject: Reply from Congressman Mike Pompeo
From: "Congressman Mike Pompeo"
Date: Fri, February 11, 2011 1:46 pm
To:


Dear Mr. Owens:

Thank you for contacting me to express support for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with me on this issue. In order to make sound decisions, it is important for me to hear from Kansans.

When first established in 1970, the EPA was given a mission to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment. I believe humanity has a mandate given to us by our Creator to be a good stewards of this planet. In addition, I share the basic belief of every American that we need clean air, water, and land.

However, as a former small business owner, I have seen first hand the dangers of an overreaching EPA. For instance, on January 2nd of 2011, the EPA started regulating greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. Small businesses, farms, hospitals, and even churches in Kansas could be exposed to unnecessary burdensome federal environmental emissions regulations for the first time.

These regulations will undoubtedly increase the cost of doing business, stunt desperately needed job creation in our region, while not significantly improving air quality. Businesses in Kansas, already facing stiff competition from overseas, will be put at an even greater disadvantage with countries like China and India that have no intention of imposing similar regulations on their businesses. I believe it is essential for Congress to exercise thoughtful oversight of EPA, especially when it comes to unnecessary regulatory initiatives that harm the economy.

Again, thank you for your thoughts on the EPA. If you have any additional questions or concerns on this or another issue, please do not hesitate to call on me or Jim Richardson of my Washington, D.C. staff. It is an honor to serve the people of Kansas in the United States Congress.

Sincerely,

Mike Pompeo
Member of Congress
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(Here is what I wrote back to him):

Mr. Pompeo and/or Jim Richardson:

I have no idea how long ago I may have signed some on-line petition which resulted in this "contact" you refer to. But, now that I read your reply - complete with its overtly religious rhetoric ("... our Creator", etc.) I am furious. It is obvious that you are using the religious card as a way of endearing yourself to me in some way. Yes, the numbers will show that you have a better chance of being perceived as a "Christian brother" if you use wording like this and I'm sure you were hoping for just that when you chose to include it in this message. However, more importantly there is supposed to be a separation of church and state in all things related to the government - written communications included. I find it pathetic of you to try such lame tactics. Clearly you have MUCH to learn as a "politician".

Now, on to the subject at hand.

Those "unnecessary burdensome federal environmental emissions regulations" you refer to are the only thing in place to stop rampant abuse of the planets' natural resources by corporate America. I seriously doubt that churches and small businesses here in Kansas are who we should be worrying about when it comes to environmental emissions. You know as well as I that it is the large corporations and "factory-farm" operations that stand to gain the most if emissions controls are reduced. If you say otherwise you are lying to yourself and you know it.

The EPA should have more power and control over things than almost any other segment of our government. Protecting the environment may be a nuisance to your precious greedy little minds but it is what may just keep us humans alive for just a little bit longer - my kids are worth it. Your corporate profits are NOT.

Your statement of "These regulations will undoubtedly increase the cost of doing business, stunt desperately needed job creation in our region, while not significantly improving air quality. .. .. unnecessary regulatory initiatives that harm the economy." is unfounded and incorrect. Prove it moron. In typical politician speak, you are over generalizing this issue by trying to make it sound like jobs are on the line here and that the cost of doing business is more important than the environment that we ALL live in. You write a few short sentences and think that is a sufficient argument to the issue at hand. It is exactly that type of thought by conservative republicans that has led America, and the world, into the environmental mess that we are in and continuing to think that way is detrimental to our future. If you think that the EPA is "overreaching" and that it is "dangerous" because trying to delay the degradation of the environment cuts into profits and does not "significantly improve air quality" then you are oblivious to the real issues and severely ignorant of what is truly important. It is very clear from your statement that profits and greed are at the forefront of your office's opinions and actions.

I can't even remember if you are a Democrat or Republican - either way you have the wrong thoughts going off in your head if you think that ANYTHING is more important than this planet we live on.

So, enjoy your paycheck from us constituents while your lack of foresight threatens our planet. Oh, and getting back to your blatant abuse of the religion thing, be sure to "praise the lord" in your future doings as that big "mystery guy" in the sky will appreciate it. Here's a tip - go watch the Zeitgeist films and learn something you bible-thumping idiot. I feel sorry for you as it is obvious that you were brainwashed, probably at a very young age, to believe in organized religion and the subsequent mental impairments that follow.

In summation, leave religion out of it and go learn something about this planet we live on. Change your thought process and think of your children (if you have any) and/or their children's future in all you do as a member of the American government. You need to stop drinking the conservative, profit-minded kool-aid and wake up.

ps, you may want to try out a new thing called "spell-check" before you send things out. My god, I would have thought that there would be a certain level of professionalism, especially when it comes to written communications from a U.S. government official. Your offense is in the part where you invoke the "creator" below, so maybe you were just so full of 'the spirit" that you didn't know what you wrote ... "to be a good stewards of this planet." - seriously?

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Hence the title of this post - This pisses me off.