Here is a letter that I wrote to Senator Benjamin Cardin, my US Senator from Maryland, today, regarding his recent sponsorship of the Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act:
Mr. Benjamin Cardin,
Please do not spend the money we have entrusted you with to protect our liberties and freedoms to rob people of an opportunity to learn a valuable lesson about the poor choice that they made. If they are not allowed to suffer the consequences of the actions they made of their own free will, then they will not grow wiser through the humbling experience which you seek to deprive them of. They will not learn and will have no reason not to use the same poor judgment again.
Furthermore, you would rob other citizens of an opportunity to purchase a home at a lower price, that they may have not otherwise been able to afford.
Yet others would be robbed of an enterprising investment opportunity. The free market is a beautiful thing if left unfettered.
It is not the proper role of government to intervene in the economic and personal affairs of it's citizens. As well, it is not fair to those of us who made sound decisions to live within our means or those of us who have suffered financially because we rectified our situation of our own accord.
What will you do next? Will you make a provision where citizens can submit each poor choice that they make in life and the economic set back that they suffered because of it, so that the government can pay them to cover their losses?
Do you see how absurd this would be? You will end up with a society of citizens who don't know how to think for themselves, and cannot survive without the government providing for all of their needs; a socialist state.
Stop meddling in affairs that you have no business being involved in.
We will be watching you to hold you accountable for your actions. Please make good, constitutionally sound decisions. To do so, a noble statesman you would become.
Sincerely,
Your Fellow Maryland Citizen
Hyrum Shewell
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