Open Letter to Baron Hill

Baron,

You don’t understand. Your “Health Care” vote to grow government, weaken individual freedom, fund abortion, increase the deficit, kill jobs, raise taxes and socialize medicine all in one bill proves that. Clearly you do not understand the American Dream or Hoosier values.

The only question that remains is whether you ever really “got it.” I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that sometime, somewhere earlier in your life that you did get what makes America great and the Hoosier values that come with that greatness. Hopefully this letter can remind you of that time when you understood what the rest of us clearly still get and fight to protect: The importance of servant leaders and the Constitution.

I hear you used to play some basketball. So let us attempt to remind you of Hoosier values by taking you back to your Senior year in high school.

Remember those big Friday night games? The gym was packed and the whole town turned out to support the team. Everyone knew each other and there was always a sense of Community and Pride. The Church pews were full, families were close and neighbor always knew neighbor. In order to deal with some of the everyday problems of Life that we all face people turned to God, Family, Church, friends, and neighbors, in that order. Corrupt Washington Politicians and incompetent bureaucrats were not in the top ten. In the years since, we have lost some of our Hoosier values and have replaced them with Washington values. You and your buddies in both parties are big parts of the reason.

Back then, if a barn burned down, the whole township would come out to help rebuild it. The people did not sit around and wait on FEMA. If a crop was in danger, fellow farmers helped each other out and they did not rely on a bailout from Washington. People were able to purchase homes without government interference and price distortions. A family could start a business without the federal government all over their back.

Think about our schools back then. Without government interference the communities were free to teach Hoosier values and a strong work ethic. But now our schools are full of progressive attitudes and our educational system is one of the worst in the West, producing disrespectful, liberal, lazy and uneducated students by the millions each year.

Remember our healthcare back then? Everyone knew the town doctor personally and he knew your medical history top to bottom. It did not cost you an arm and a leg to treat an arm and a leg. But today your doctor spends more time with your insurance companies and paper work than he does with you. The politicians brought in the “middleman” special interest (Government and Big Health Insurance) driving prices through the roof and quality of care through the floor.

We, the people, want rid of Washington values and we want our Hoosier values back!

Hoosier values are about faith, family, freedom, Independence, compassion, community, respect and hard work.

Washington values are about greed, corruption, power, fame, wealth, laziness, incompetence and immorality.

Every single time that you politicians expand your role in our lives, we rely on your values a little bit more and we compromise the values that got us where we are today.

We are your master, you are our servant. But every action you take you are reversing this, making us reliant on you. No more! We are getting back to Hoosier values!

If this reminder is not enough for you to get it, then we will remind you again!

We will remind you when we go door to door. We will remind you when you see our signs. We will remind you on the phone. We will remind you at our meet and greets. We will remind you at our people’s town halls. We will remind you all summer everywhere you look and then we will remind you again Labor Day as that panic should set in. If that does not work, then we will remind you Election Day as you lose your job. If you still don’t get the message, then you will get it early January as you pack up your office and hand over the keys.

Travis Hankins for Congress
www.travishankins.com





"The office seeks the man, the man doesn't seek the office."
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"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
- Matthew 9:37-38