Disgruntled? You're darn right

I laughed as I read your Fulcher article on Jan 21. The biggest joke was Russ Fulcher said that "Republicans will have their work cut out for them over the next four years."

You might as well stay home for the next four years. All the Republicans do in D.C. are talk and nothing comes from it.

The Republican Party was almost dead before Donald Trump came along. You, Congressman Fulcher and the rest of your colleagues have now killed it for good and good riddance to it.

The politicians in Washington, D.C., still have no idea why Donald Trump was elected. The Congress has an approval rating of 9% and I'm now hearing people say things like, "LYING LIKE A CONGRESSMAN."

It doesn't matter if they are a Democrat or a Republican. They don't care about the American people they were elected to represent as evidenced by the COVID-19 bills that you passed. All the pork that you packed into the bills did nothing for the people of this country.

In case you have not noticed, the government is out of money. What have you done to shrink the size of government? Maybe start with a 10% reduction; hell, even 1% would be a start.

You send billions of dollars to foreign countries and even to the illegals in this country. But you offer $600 to Americans who have lost their jobs and are hurting during COVID. Instead of sending extra money to people who were unemployed you sent money to EVERYONE.

My wife and I are retired and our income didn't change a bit during COVID but, you sent us $1,200. Same with everyone else who didn't lose their job. Where did you get that money you sent out? And, how much of that pork which was in the relief bill will make its way back into the pockets of Democrat and Republican politicians?

Corruption is another reason for your low approval rating. The only question is how much above 99% of the Congress is corrupt.

I can't tell if you Congressman Russ Fulcher or Senators Crapo & Risch are honest or not. You are in the pigpen wrestling in the mud with pigs and it's hard to tell who is clean and who is not.

Senator Crapo & Risch, who were you representing when you signed the letter to ask DHS and President Trump asking to allow an additional 30,000 foreign workers on the H2B visa program? Could it be your big dollar contributors who would benefit from this?

Another reason for your low approval rating is the fact there is no accountability for those in Washington, D.C., who break the law, not the Clintons, IRS Lois Lerner, or the FBI, CIA, NSA and the rest of Russian collusion group.

Foundations (run by politicians or their families) funnel money into the pockets of politicians and they don't even try and hide it (the Clinton Foundation comes to mind). Every government agency, IRS, Public Health, EVERY AGENCY needs to be cleaned out top to bottom and restarted with new honest people. Can you name any government-run agency that works well?

It used to be that you the politicians let us think we the people could change things at the ballot box, even though the RNC & DNC really controlled who would win the primaries. But after the 2020 election it has become very clear that we don’t even have the ballot box available to make changes.

SO WHAT AVENUE DOES THAT LEAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?

I would be embarrassed to tell anyone I was a member of Congress. But, all of you congressmen and senators seem to be proud of the fact you are politicians.

There is nothing for you to be proud of. I am a conservative and will continue working to stop the socialist/communist takeover of our country. But I will not be voting for another Republican.

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Dale Gibboney is a Post Falls resident.