Our representatives in the Senate and the House need to remember that they’re there to represent the will of the people. Not the special interests.
They need to know that ignoring the people is not right. Ring their phones off the hook, fax the hell out of their fax machines. Fill their email box.
Here’s a letter to help you out, feel free to copy and paste.
Dear <Name of Your Representative>,
Regarding the “new” bailout bill full of pork, there is only one decision that can be made. Do NOT support this bailout bill. I hope and pray that you will make the right decision regarding the “new” bailout bill that’s headed your way from the senate. There is only one decision that can be made. Do NOT support this bailout bill.
This bill is not new. It still has the same problems as the first rejected bill. Now, however, they’ve added more pork in an attempt to buy your vote. The amount of pork is absurd. There are tax breaks in there for the Filmmakers, verbiage to repeal a $0.39 tax on wooden arrows designed for children, and a research tax credit for large corporations. I don’t know how anyone who claims to be a conservative can vote in favor of this in good conscious. This bill is quite possibly the worst, and most pork-laden thing I’ve ever seen come out of the Federal Government.
Our representatives seem to have forgotten the meaning of the word “representative.” Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman said after his “yes” vote, “It was the right thing to do. I think people put the interests of the American people above party politics. The calls were 100 to one against this. But it is the right thing.” (from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26973888/) How on earth can this be the right thing to do, when he’s getting 100 to one calls against this?!? Representatives are elected to represent, not to dictate.
This bill is hastily thrown together and unnecessary. We need to slow down, suppress our knee-jerk reaction, use common sense, and let the market heal itself. This bill will give money and power to the very same people that helped facilitate this housing bubble in the first place! Not to mention, it’s the same people who, only a few weeks ago, were telling us that everything is okay, that we’re not in a recession. It sets a terrifying precedent for government intervention in free market dealings. This is not the correct solution. It’s not a conservative solution. This is a solution that expands government dramatically. Finally, this will only prolong our problem. This buys up “bad debt” but perpetuates the system that produced the “bad debts” in the first place! What we’re dealing with here is change. The market is trying to change so that something new and better can replace this which is failing. Resisting the change is like damming up a river; the pressure is going to build, and when the dam bursts, it’s going to be far worse than it was before.
Do NOT support this pork laden bailout bill.
