To Each and Every Elected Official in Washington D.C.,

The Partisan Politics need to stop. Please pull your heads from the proverbial sand and look around. The American people are looking at you, all of you, and you look like lost children fighting in an elementary school playground. We don’t care what party you represent, we don’t care where you call home. All we care about is a solution to each and every problem that this nation is facing today. Divisive, Partisan Politics are doing us absolutely no good.

Stop the finger pointing and work together. We the people, we’re the ones getting hurt here. While you reel in your nice salaries, government medical care, and golden parachute pensions, we’re left to wonder why we keep getting ripped off. Sure, you can argue that we the people get to vote every 4 years, but, I question… can we make it that long with the way things are going?

When our forefathers founded this great nation, they founded it “For the People and By the People”. It’s time we return to our roots and remember why our great nation came to be.

The issues of the Debt Cap, Wall Street Greed, the Housing Crisis, Etc. can all be tied to partisanship, ignorance, turned shoulders, and certainly lead to questions of corruption. Do each of you want to be named complicit with the failure of our great nation? Well ladies and gentleman, that is where you’re heading.

Throughout our educational careers, we’re taught about this thing called teamwork. Teamwork can help the weakest of teams win, and the lack thereof will help the strongest of teams lose. Where our greatest issues lie today is that the majority parties, the Republicans and the Democrats act as though they are vying for a Superbowl win for their team. The problem is that, YOU’RE ALL AMERICANS, so start acting like it. At the end of the day, we’re all one TEAM, and the infighting is moving us in reverse, really fast.

While I understand that I present no solutions to the big picture problems, I openly admit, I don’t have enough information to offer anything sustainable or realistic. See, I’m a small business owner, and I have my own struggles. I have to try to keep my business running, I have to generate my own leads, close my own sales, and pay my own way.

So while I work through my own blood, sweat, and tears to keep a roof over my head. I ask, for once, that each of you, stop to look across the aisle and talk to your colleagues from opposing parties and unite around real solutions.  

In closing, I ask that each of you recognize the extensive issues that Partisan Politics have caused us, and I ask that you stop. Each of you must recognize that we’re all in this together, and it’s time that sacrifices be made, cuts be enacted, and real solutions be executed. 

Sincerly,

Joseph E. Minock
Co-Founder, DealSavant.com
Ann Arbor, Mi