Will you critique my potential letter to my congresspeople?

[Obamanaut]

I don't have much experience with correspondence to congresspeople, and I don't want this effort to become too lengthy. I'm concerned they might get distracted by something shiny while reading it. Thanks

Is there ANYONE in Washington who is watching what happens to MY tax dollars? Let me rephrase that - Is there ANYONE in Washington who is making even a modest effort to keep MY tax dollars from going down one rat hole after another? From all appearances, there does not seem to be.

I read the following recently, online, and have provided the link so that your staff member who may or may not read this will be able to read the entire article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/national/nationalspecial/14katrina.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

<snip> Mobile homes worth hundreds of millions of dollars are deteriorating in a muddy field in Arkansas and may never be used to house victims of Hurricane Katrina because of a dispute over where to install them, federal officials acknowledged Monday. <more at link>

I find it most disconcerting that I read this only a couple of days after reading about billions of dollars gone (including just plain missing) through fraud in the Iraq debacle - with little chance of being recovered from the perpetrators. Doesn’t this bother the people who (ostensibly) control the purse strings?

There is a huge trade deficit, the national debt is at an all time high, thousands of American service people have been killed or maimed in an ill-begotten conflict, even more thousands of civilians (most of whom were probably not guilty of any wrong-doing) have likewise been slaughtered or disfigured, no-bid contracts continue to be given, some members of Congress want to sell our ports to foreign entities.

Surely you must recognize that “we the people” are beginning to wake up, are beginning to be more enlightened, and are becoming increasingly unwilling to return elected officials for another term of the “same old same old.” You are there now, you can fix this. I am counting on you.

Respectfully,


usnret88