IF IT LOOKS LIKE A DUCK...

Senator Nelson (and others dangling from the government teat),

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and swims like a duck it has to be a duck.  Likewise, if it is $400 million in untraceable bills from multiple sources, delivered by an unmarked plane, and Americans are returned the same day it has to be a ransom.  I know you do not understand this so I tried to keep it as simple as possible.  To top it off it was my money and I was not asked!

I spent 20 plus years in the military protecting our country from communism and terrorism only to find out you went and stabbed me in the back.  There is no excuse, no apology, nor sadly, recourse when you perform acts of sabotage against the country as you have done.  You elite in Washington have decided common sense needs to be replaced by a new world order where “intellectuals” know better than the proletariat paying them. 

I really don’t know how you sleep at night!

Respectfully,

Edward Rodda

A Simple Thing Called Flood Insurance

Mr. Curbelo,
A little history first, last year I called your office after you and the rest of the so called Republicans voted for Obama's spending bill. I told the young man who answered I was concerned nothing was done to curb the largess of the government and wanted to know why the "Republicans" did not hold the proverbial gun to the head of the administration in an attempt to lower spending and possibly balance the budget. I was told by this young man it would have had the possible outcome of shutting down the government. I told the young man if that is what it takes to get spending in check then so be it. The young man called me an anarchist as I was espousing a government shut down. I told the young man we as citizens are required to live within our means so why is the government who we give our hard earned money allowed to rack up trillions of dollars of debt. I received no answer.

Now to the present. I purchased my yearly flood insurance for my rental today and found a $250 surcharge to offset the subsidies you in government are giving to those who you believe need the money (and may possibly vote for you in some future election). The sad part is the surcharge is almost one and a half times the cost of my actual insurance. The PDF file does state the surcharge may only go away when the subsidies also disappear, but then it also states there are always mitigating circumstances and the surcharge may continue to offset future losses of a government run insurance venture (so there is no chance of it ever going away) and I will continue to pay for something I will never receive.

In closing, the anarchist from Key West is looking for the day when people are responsible for their lives and their actions, where politicians are more interested in preserving the country than their Office, and truth is never silenced because it may not be politically correct.

Respect given to the Office you hold,
Edward Rodda

P.S. You might want to limit the cost of someone else's subsidy, oops, my surcharge to the actual cost of the insurance or $250, whichever is less as a start to lowering the cost to your constituents who are actually paying you... Just a thought.