January, 2010

I answered your call.  Just last week,  I announced my candidacy for the United States Congress.

Why am I running?  To take back the keys to the car. 

You see ... someone recently said that trusting money and the economy to Congress is like giving a bottle of whiskey and the car keys to a 16 year old.

Let's face it; the U.S. Congress has lost all regard for its citizens.  What other answer can there be when it holds our Constitution in such low regard?  Where do they find authority in the U.S. Constitution to print and spend money on nebulous economic gambles they have not yet taxed ... and then defer the repayment onto a generation yet unborn?

No sooner had our 401K's, pensions and stock portfolios taken a nose-dive when Congress saddled us with debt beyond even their wildest hallucinations.

Who do these people think they are?

Think about it ... if they really wanted to "stimulate" the economy to spur spending in an effort to rejuvenate business and jobs, why not put it back into our pockets to spend?

The answer is: Because the people we elected don't trust us. They think they know how to spend our money better than we do.

Moreover, what they really wanted to do was to spend it on their favorite pork-barrel projects, banking cronies, unions and government organizations.  Thus, the greatest spending spree and transfer of wealth in history. The results of this voodoo economic plan?  Nada ... Zero!

But failure has never discouraged the "progressives"  from making the same mistake twice, so now they're getting ready to double the bet on the table and spend another trillion or so.

And this doesn't include their grand plans of socializing the health care system, pumping another half trillion they don't have into a government takeover of a staggering one-sixth of the U.S. economy. Forget the fact that 63% of Americans oppose it because they've seen government housing, the postal service and other government boondoggles, like the Mustang Ranch in Nevada. But what do us peasants know?

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Honestly, if what they're doing wasn't so painfully wrong, watching these people spend our money on C-Span would be as hilarious as watching Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" comedy routine.

The only people doing well in this economy are the people who sell the ink and paper to the money printers at the U.S. Treasury.

Seriously, when you're a member of the U.S. Congress and you've lost respect for the people and their money, but your own nest is feathered ... well, you've become an elitist. Voters in Washington's 2nd Congressional District deserve better treatment than this.

Before I made my final decision to run, we conducted a voter survey. The most revealing fact we discovered is that most of the voters don't know much about Rick Larsen or where he stands on the issues. They don't know that his office has used every franking privilege possible to send out regular newsletters painting a rosy picture of what he's doing for you ... and the liberal media folks have helped him carry on the charade from the start.  In other words, he's taking money out of your right pocket and spending it to distract you so that you won't notice he's taking more out of your left pocket.

But the question isn't what taxes Rick Larsen has supported; the real question is, what tax, if any, hasn't he supported?  What we need to do, I think, is to start a letter writing campaign to Mr. Larsen to ask him to show us a tax he didn't support.

Some may recall that I ran against Rick Larsen ten years ago.  Rick was able to muster only 50.01 percent of the vote in that race.

We warned then of his liberal views and tax-and-spend philosophy.  But, as so often happens in campaigns, liberals hide from their real (socialist) agenda.

Now, however, Rick Larsen has a voting record ... and we can prove what we said to voters back then! Just how bad is Larsen's record?  In 2008 he was named a "True Liberal" by the American Conservative Union, a sorry distinction reserved for Congressmen who achieved the ACU's worst possible rating, an astounding 0%!

A look at Rick Larsen's voting record reveals a puppet of the Obama administration and the Pelosi/ Reid congress that is spending our hard-earned tax dollars on anti-American disasters like ACORN. If there is one person in congress that has carried the water of the Obama - Pelosi - Reid gang, it is Rick Larsen.

So, the voters really don't know Rick Larsen.  We intend to change that. With your help, when we're done, the voters will know the real Rick Larsen very well.

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Perhaps no other time in our history has America been at a more critical crossroads. To me, the future holds two possibilities ...

First, there is Rick Larsen's future of bigger and more intrusive federal government, continuing loss of personal freedoms, and more control as the federal government increasingly micro-manages our lives.  It is a future of growing confiscation of our personal wealth.

With Rick Larsen, you will see even more of what I call "fear driven" governing.  In this fear driven government, the liberal-socialists must always have a new crisis on the horizon. This bogeyman keeps the people locked in fear and following the liberal's bigger government solutions like the Pied Piper, which allows them to pile on more laws and regulations - along with new taxes to pay for those mandates.

We see that today with much of the environmental movement using cooked science to keep us held hostage, energy dependent and unable to build industry, infrastructure and grow business.

Rick Larsen's future offers Washingtonians a failed ideology of socialism that punishes prosperity, produces mediocrity and has failed millions of people every time it's been tried throughout history.

Then, there is the John Koster future of smaller and less intrusive government, and more freedom.  You get a government that takes far less from the people because it recognizes that wealth is created in the private sector and belongs to individuals.  You own the fruits of your own labor, not government.

I believe that wealth needs to stay with you in the private sector in order to multiply.  In this future, free-enterprise flourishes and Americans do what they have always done best ... they create!  They produce!

Americans prosper when left unmolested by a government hell-bent on regulating them to death, causing them to become uncompetitive in this global economy.

With Rick Larsen, you get a government job created from regurgitated wealth taken from someone else's pocket. In this system, mediocrity is rewarded, the people are depressed, productivity is stifled, and the pie shrinks.

With me, you get a private sector job that comes from wealth created out of good old American ingenuity, spurred by the free enterprise system. In this system, creativity and hard work is highly rewarded, the people are inspired and hopeful, they believe in each other, and the pie grows.

The definition of my governing style can be found in one word:  Liberty.  With Rick Larsen you get a collectivist or socialist world view.  With John Koster you get a return to our founder's philosophy of governing, which places individual liberty as the highest American ideal.

That is the basis of the American dream, and I want to make that dream a reality for you, your children, and your grandchildren.

Will you help me?

Many political pundits believe that, in this present  political climate, this is our race to lose.  But we can lose it.  Rick Larsen has nearly a half-million dollar war chest and the ability to raise much more from liberal special-interests.  I need to match that very quickly, and still raise another $1.5 million to reach victory.

In this race, $2,400 per person, per election, is the limit.  That is $2,400 for the Primary Election (August 17, 2010) and another $2,400 for the General Election (November 2, 2010); $4,800 per couple, per election.  I will need many people to give at that level if we're going to succeed.  However, with the success of Scott Brown, I am convinced that it is the grassroots who will make or break this campaign.

Please give whatever you can give and believe me when I say that no amount is too small.

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There are many people saying we have one last chance at turning America around before we take the final plunge into tyranny.  What you can do now may be the difference in the kind of future we leave to our children.  I hope you will take some time to consider what you can give to this effort.  I promise I will lay my life on the line to win this seat for you and your family.

I'm honored to make this run for the U.S. Congress on your behalf.  I consider it the highest call on my life.  I'm proud to be an American and to serve you. Thank you, and may God save these United States.

Sincerely,

John Koster

www.KosterforCongress.,com

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