US representative democracy at work...

Around mid-February, I wrote Mitt Romney, the best of our two Utah Senator, asking him to intervene and have the US tap into the more than $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets to pay for Ukraine's defense. 

As everyone knows, our MAGA-Republican representatives just don’t want to to allow a vote on the $65 billion to help Ukraine. 

The answer I received on February 28 was a boilerplate letter about the Ukraine war in general and how my Senator was supporting it, but nothing about my specific suggestion. 

Instead, I would have like to hear how he felt about the SUGGESTION, or at the very least receiving a simple answer like “Great idea!”, “I don’t agree with it” or simply “I don’t know…”, but at the very least an answer to my question, not a hollow generality. 

This is a waste of taxpayer money to answer in that manner and what an insult to my intelligence. Perhaps, my favorite Senator should train his staff to sort out the mail addressed to him and answer more intelligently. 

What an innovative concept in what should be in a representative democracy!