California Senator Barbara Boxer recently sent out and email to her constituents. It reads thusly:

Dear Friend:

New data from the Labor Department confirms that our nation faces the worst economic crisis of our lifetime.  The Labor Department announced that 533,000 Americans lost their jobs in November — the largest single-month drop since 1974.  National unemployment stands at 6.7 percent.  California’s rate is expected to rise above the 8.2 percent rate of October.

The unemployment rate is just one measure of our economic troubles, but it is an important one.  One of my concerns is that an increasing unemployment rate will further endanger the housing market, with unemployed workers unable to make their house payments.

I’m working every day to find solutions to our economic situation.  My staff and I are consulting with every county in the state to get a better picture of what is happening in communities across California and what federal actions will best assist those communities.  We have heard strong support for jobs programs, for extending the Food Stamp program to help those families that are suffering, and to revise the COPS program that helps local law enforcement with staffing needs.

I am also working with my Senate colleagues to enact an economic recovery package that will create good jobs while also benefiting communities across America with roads and bridge projects, better flood control and other infrastructure programs, and mobilizing the nation for energy independence.  Our goal is to have this package to President-elect Barack Obama just after his inauguration.

My top priority — in fact, my only priority right now — is to stabilize the housing market, create new, good-paying jobs, and get our economy back on track.  Too many Californians are suffering to accept delay.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

Here is my response:

Dear Senator Boxer,

It is highly unlikely that you are reading this, so I am hoping that maybe I will help educate one of your staffers instead.

You do not understand the problem with our economy, as evidenced in your email to me dated 12/09/08. You think the way out is to engage in yet more deficit spending and that will somehow help the average American stay employed. Oh sure you’ll employ some people by building bridges and other infrastructure, but only at the expense of other jobs. Government does not create wealth–it just merely shifts it from one party to another.

You should read your history. FDR took office in a time very similar to today. For all the big government programs, high taxes and protectionist legislation prohibiting imports (not to mention loose monetary policy by the Fed), he was completely unable to get the economy out of the dumps.

This is because his programs and executive orders did nothing to help the economy–in fact, they made it worse, plummeting this country deeper into depression. And this is what your stimulus packages, high taxes and extremely loose monetary policy will do. Get ready for depression, because that is where we are headed, except we may very likely have a hyper-inflationary depression this time around.

There is not one single thing the government can do to actually help except to cut spending drastically. We should cut whole departments (let’s start with the Depts of Education, Energy, the FDA and DEA for starters…oh yeah, let’s dump the Dept of Homeland Security while we are at it). We also should end the war in Iraq and close *all* our foreign military bases.

If you want to stimulate the economy, you must first let it crash. This is the bitter pill that politicians don’t want to take, but they must. We are in big trouble–our terrible foreign and domestic policies are finally catching up to us. We have shredded the constitution, and allowed the government to walk all over it. It’s time we return to it, starting by taking power away from the Fed and returning this nation to a gold standard. Sound money prevents inflation and also forces a fiscal discipline on the government. If we take away your printing presses you have to either raise taxes or cut spending (and now you no longer have the option to borrow since the rest of the world is waking up to how bad our credit actually is).

Please Senator, start educating yourself on how economics actually work and stop listening to Keyesian dolts. Pay attention to Ron Paul, for starters–he knows more about economics than anyone else in Congress. Your efforts to help the economy are misguided and will only make things worse.

Sincerely,

Me

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