An Open Letter to the President (& Congress)

Dear Mr. President (and members of Congress),

Thank you for doing as little as humanly possible to stop the current sequestration that has begun. I am an Army wife but not a typical one. You see, my husband is in the Florida Army National Guard and is an Active Duty member. As of right now this sequestration and furloughs are not effecting our family but they are effecting a lot of people that we know and the community that we live in. One thing that I am having trouble wrapping my head around is that every single one of you up there in Washington took no direct actions to stop this from happening. You have one side that wants spending cuts to take effect and the other side wants to raise taxes on those Americans who are trying to help bring the country back to its "American" standards. You all let this event happen to our country and then turn around and pledge $60 million to the war that is being fought in Syria. Are you kidding me?! You have just let a good portion of the country's Defense workers go on furlough and cut a lot of money from the national defense budget but you magically found millions and millions of dollars to help support a war in Syria. Priorities people.

I have an idea - why don't you let some of us normal American military families come up there and show you how to budget the money that you all are responsible for. I know that for my family when we don't have money in the budget for certain things, we don't go and spend money we don't have. We do not have any credit cards. We are very diligent with the money that we have and that the Lord has entrusted us with. You all make outrageous amounts of money to sit in a chair and fight and argue with each other. You do not know nor do you see just how all of this is going to effect the country. I think that you ALL - yes, you Mr. President, too - should be required to live for a year on what an enlisted member of any branch of the military makes. You should have to pay for basic health insurance and then for any medical bills that come with having basick health insurance. You should have to worry about either paying your mortgage/rent or putting food on the table for your family. You should have to face the unexplainable rising gas prices and utility bills. You should have to worry about your son and a diagnoses of ADHD and ODD and going to kindergarten in a public school. You see, you all live in an alternate reality. You do not have all of these things to worry about. I know that you have things that concern the country that you worry about but you all seen to forget about the people of the country. You forget about the people that elected you into office. You forget about the people that are counting on you and your decisions that you make.

While I did not vote for many of you, including you, Mr. President, I am told by my Creator that I am to pray for you. God raises up and puts leaders into place that He wants in place - for such a time as this. Even though I am afraid of what will happen to my husband's job and to the economy of the country, I believe that God is trying to tell us something. He is shaking this country to show us of our wicked and evil ways. We can either listen to Him and what He is trying to tell us or we can ignore Him and watch our beloved country demise. I will continue to pray for all of you that you will hear the voice of the Lord and think incredibly hard about the decisions that you make regarding our nation.

Thanks.

Kim Kees