Dear Fellow Citizens,
I just had to take the time to write and share a few thoughts with you. As you are well aware, things have gotten pretty bad lately with the political strife in this country. There have been many times and instances within the last three years since President Obama took office that I thought it couldn't get any worse, but then it did. I know that we all have a lot on our plates now, but seeing as your party is in charge over in the House, and nearly in charge over on the Senate side, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to bring up a priority issue I feel is being slightly neglected on the party platform.
Climate change isn't happening quickly enough. Just yesterday, it was so chilly outside I actually had to wear a jacket the entire day. I had hoped that by now with your refusal to back any sort of emissions and global warming initiatives that New York City wouldn't be getting cold until December at the very earliest. As a horticulturist, I have to work outside and when it gets cold outside, my plants start to go dormant. The flowers die back and leaves get all over the place. I would like it to stay warmer for much longer so I can enjoy the flowers, not have to rake up all the leaves, and, even better, to be able to plant plants that have formerly only enjoyed growing in the subtropics. Can you please hurry and stop more progress in the fight against man-made climate change?
Also, my air is too clean. I can still see the New York skyline from 9 blocks deep into Central Park. It really made me upset the other day, when I was 30 blocks north of Midtown Manhattan in Central Park and I could still see the skyline. When I go to the park, I want to get away from the city and seeing the skyline on a nearly constant basis is like a big middle finger reminding me that I'm still in the city. Could you defund the EPA even further so that the Clean Air Act cannot be enforced and that only the blackest smoke will issue forth from the smokestacks of the country?
You're doing a pretty good job when it comes to the Clean Water Act. Allowing the oil and gas companies to be exempt from that legislation since 2005 was an act of pure genius. I know all of those families that have had to switch to bottled water because their groundwater became polluted when exposed to natural gas hydrofracking fluid was for the best. The stimulation to the water bottling economy must be enormous! I only hope that fracking can go forward in the New York Marcellus Shale region so that New York City's unfiltered mountain water will be unsafe. Just think, 8 million plus people having to buy bottled water. The economy won't know what to do with all that extra money in the system.
Please continue to remain indifferent at the loss or threat of loss of hundreds of, if not thousands, of endemic plant and animal species. Biodiversity is overrated. It would be a lot easier for John Q. Public if we didn't have so many living things to keep track of. Monoculture is the wave of the future, and knowing you are the party that is always looking forward, I know that you will want to do all you can to ensure that we, as Americans, will only see two or three of the same species of plants and animals throughout this great country.
Finally, continue to rip away at regulations that protect us from chemical spills, oil spills, and the like. The corporations of this country are a lot more important than the human citizens of this country. I mean without corporations, I wouldn't have money, and you wouldn't be in charge. They need to be freed from any thought of the environment so that they can continue to give someone other than me more money. I don't want to see anymore National Parks. After seeing a couple they all get a bit "samey". I want to be able to dump whatever I want out the car window as I drive down the freeway in my H3 Hummer. So please, just get rid of the EPA and all of those other environment friendly laws. To make sure this never happens again, could you pass a law that makes it illegal to care about the environment? I'm sure the future citizens of this country won't mind.
I thank you for the unspeakable amount of things your party does for this country. I'm glad you are all sticking to your principles and not compromising on anything. That kind of devotion surely could not be found with any political party that has ever been on the Earth before. I may be an Independent voter, but I know where to turn when I want to see things get done in this country. I don't know how I'll ever be able to return the favor.
Your fellow American,
Richard Walton
Horticulturist
I just had to take the time to write and share a few thoughts with you. As you are well aware, things have gotten pretty bad lately with the political strife in this country. There have been many times and instances within the last three years since President Obama took office that I thought it couldn't get any worse, but then it did. I know that we all have a lot on our plates now, but seeing as your party is in charge over in the House, and nearly in charge over on the Senate side, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to bring up a priority issue I feel is being slightly neglected on the party platform.
Climate change isn't happening quickly enough. Just yesterday, it was so chilly outside I actually had to wear a jacket the entire day. I had hoped that by now with your refusal to back any sort of emissions and global warming initiatives that New York City wouldn't be getting cold until December at the very earliest. As a horticulturist, I have to work outside and when it gets cold outside, my plants start to go dormant. The flowers die back and leaves get all over the place. I would like it to stay warmer for much longer so I can enjoy the flowers, not have to rake up all the leaves, and, even better, to be able to plant plants that have formerly only enjoyed growing in the subtropics. Can you please hurry and stop more progress in the fight against man-made climate change?
Also, my air is too clean. I can still see the New York skyline from 9 blocks deep into Central Park. It really made me upset the other day, when I was 30 blocks north of Midtown Manhattan in Central Park and I could still see the skyline. When I go to the park, I want to get away from the city and seeing the skyline on a nearly constant basis is like a big middle finger reminding me that I'm still in the city. Could you defund the EPA even further so that the Clean Air Act cannot be enforced and that only the blackest smoke will issue forth from the smokestacks of the country?
You're doing a pretty good job when it comes to the Clean Water Act. Allowing the oil and gas companies to be exempt from that legislation since 2005 was an act of pure genius. I know all of those families that have had to switch to bottled water because their groundwater became polluted when exposed to natural gas hydrofracking fluid was for the best. The stimulation to the water bottling economy must be enormous! I only hope that fracking can go forward in the New York Marcellus Shale region so that New York City's unfiltered mountain water will be unsafe. Just think, 8 million plus people having to buy bottled water. The economy won't know what to do with all that extra money in the system.
Please continue to remain indifferent at the loss or threat of loss of hundreds of, if not thousands, of endemic plant and animal species. Biodiversity is overrated. It would be a lot easier for John Q. Public if we didn't have so many living things to keep track of. Monoculture is the wave of the future, and knowing you are the party that is always looking forward, I know that you will want to do all you can to ensure that we, as Americans, will only see two or three of the same species of plants and animals throughout this great country.
Finally, continue to rip away at regulations that protect us from chemical spills, oil spills, and the like. The corporations of this country are a lot more important than the human citizens of this country. I mean without corporations, I wouldn't have money, and you wouldn't be in charge. They need to be freed from any thought of the environment so that they can continue to give someone other than me more money. I don't want to see anymore National Parks. After seeing a couple they all get a bit "samey". I want to be able to dump whatever I want out the car window as I drive down the freeway in my H3 Hummer. So please, just get rid of the EPA and all of those other environment friendly laws. To make sure this never happens again, could you pass a law that makes it illegal to care about the environment? I'm sure the future citizens of this country won't mind.
I thank you for the unspeakable amount of things your party does for this country. I'm glad you are all sticking to your principles and not compromising on anything. That kind of devotion surely could not be found with any political party that has ever been on the Earth before. I may be an Independent voter, but I know where to turn when I want to see things get done in this country. I don't know how I'll ever be able to return the favor.
Your fellow American,
Richard Walton
Horticulturist
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