Letter To My House Representative

Letter to Julie Fedorchak, North Dakota House Representative, 1/17/2025:

Trump said, “I may do that for Greenland too. I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that."

Tariffs are strictly a function of the House, as are appropriations. It is Congress' job to legislate.

The president's job is to execute the laws passed by Congress. Usurping Congress' role is unconstitutional. Trump had his chance to veto their legislation; he can't change his mind down the road.

Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff and the architect of separation of families at the border (how many children were never returned?) is assisting Trump in following the Nazi playbook. Look it up.

When are you going to impeach this would-be dictator and saddle us with his VP?

Gestapo in our streets, retribution and the demonizing of anyone who opposes his views, attacks on Blue States, constant threats and insults, the sowing of chaos and terror and despair and misery, throwing out due process and the freedom of the press and religion, malicious prosecutions, acts of war, war crimes, imperial acts of aggression against other nations, blackmailing of Zelensky, whitewashing history, imposition of religious ideas of binary gender, halting cancer and other research, crippling of agencies that serve the public. That's just a small list of Trump's warped actions.

America has had progress set back decades and generations. Clinton was impeached because of a bj, and you don't think there are sufficient grounds to impeach Trump? Do your job!

The Big BS Bill of 2025

To Michelle Fischbach (R-MN7):

(Subject Category: Law) 

As a Minnesota District constituent, I urge you to vote NO on the so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ and to encourage all of your colleagues to do the same. We should be helping people get health insurance, not kicking 17 million off. We should ensure families have enough to eat, not yanking food out of their mouths. And we should make sure that millionaires and billionaires stop taking more than their fair share, not giving them even more riches.

And there are so many other massive problems with this bill. Stop enabling the lunatics in the White House. Stop the gutting of the middle class and the consumers that businesses rely on. 

Crippling Social Security (the biggest single senior anti-poverty program that has operated successfully for 90 years and which is separate by law from the federal budget, adding not one dime to the National Debt), firing hundreds of thousands of essential federal workers, throwing tens of thousands of veterans out of work, and trashing the EPA, USAID, National Park Service, IRS, DOJ, FEMA, the VA, CDC, Education, Civil Rights, and many other departments. The new Secret Police (ICE). Attacking the rule of law, individual judges, law firms, attorneys, and members of Congress. The wholesale exposure of citizens' private data. The direct taxation of consumers with levies on imports (it's levies on exports that are paid by foreign entities!). 

Stop the fascist takeover and the gutting of the Constitution that you swore an Oath to defend (the Constitution, not the wannabe dictator and authoritarian felon in the White House). You are supposed to strike a balance between the needs of business and those of individuals. Not turn this country into a banana republic. 

Thank you,

Keith Wilson

Wendell, MN (Minnesota's 7th Congressional District) 

Vote NO on the GENIUS Act

 To: MN senators Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar

I urge you to vote NO on the GENIUS Act.

One of the schemes I've read about is to replace the Treasury Bonds in the Trust Fund with cryptocurrency, with the added bonus that it can't be redeemed for 20 years. That money was put aside to handle the shortages due to baby boomer retirements. Trashing it means that only 80% of benefits can be paid. 

The GOP keeps trying to cut benefits and raise retirement ages instead of adjusting SocSec tax rates and salary caps. Social Security is currently only 100% funded for 10 years instead of the 75-year full funding it's supposed to have (it's a manufactured crisis). Their crypto scheme would drop full funding to zero years.

I’m a Wendell, Minnesota resident. It's a town of 167 people. I’m retired and my only income is Social Security. Trump and the GOP are in the process of destroying Social Security because, one, they don't make any profit from it, and two, companies think their 6.2% Social Security tax contribution on behalf of employees is their money. (Try getting employers to give it to employees so that workers could pay the full 12.4% tax.)

This “genius” bill would legitimize and deregulate private “stablecoins,” effectively giving corporations, tech billionaires, and even Donald Trump the power to mint their own currencies. 

The GENIUS Act gives the Crypto Industry exactly what they want: Bank powers, without bank rules. It lets corporations create private currencies, overlooks existential risk to our financial system, and even includes a loophole to bypass U.S. law by allowing for registering overseas first.

If it passed, the bill would strip away financial safeguards we all rely on.

The GENIUS Act is not about financial innovation, it is about creating a system ripe for crypto scams. 

Stop this reckless bill. Vote NO. 

Sincerely,

 

Keith Wilson