Write your Senators. My letter to Senator Clinton and Senator Schumer

[Nordmadr]

Dear Senator Clinton,

There seems to be a ripple, or perhaps a convulsion of sorts passing through the American People right now. We are uncertain. The public is hurting, and the government continues to ask more from us to help those that have often lived with a silver spoon. Many have smugly played the system to their direct advantage, often illegally and unscrupulously. How we seem to have lost our way as a society. Can we no longer be honorable? Were we ever? Our forefathers must weep.

I write to you to implore that you not support a government Wall St. subsidy without finding a way to help everyday working class people. I ask that you not allow these institutions to continue to run amok without regulation and oversight. Over and over again they prove that they can not handle the responsibility.

As a society, we live far more comfortably than most, but I think we can sense things may not be staying that way. We anticipate pain to come; but make no mistake, we are angry, and if things are to be painful, they should be equally painful. Those that helped organize this mess should also share in it. Large numbers of very real and ordinary people are paying for all of these mistakes.


The financial numbers being talked about are simply staggering. Most of us are not experts on the economy, but it seems striking to us that money could come so quickly for this yet education, health care, and a whole list of important things are left to limp along.

Let this be a defining moment. Draw a line and say, 'no more'. Let it be the beginning of something new.

[PoiBoy]

1. Excellent letter...!!

Very well said... thanks for the inspiration..!!

:hi:

[ramapo]

2. My letter to Sen Lautenberg & Menendez, Rep Garrett (ugh)

The proposed $700B bailout of Wall Street firms is an outrageous proposition that rewards those who have perpetrated a reckless, unregulated binge during which some of the most complex set of swindles ever seen were created and retailed.

Now, under the helpful guise of an "emergency", Sec. Paulson and Chairman Bernanke, both whom have substantial financial interests, have proposed a bailout with no oversight, no limits, and no reform, with the costs laid squarely upon the American taxpayer.

This is beyond belief. While there is no question that some government intervention to prevent a domino effect of failures was required, this plan is simply unacceptable.

Hundreds of billions in debt, incurred through greed and mismanagement will become the responsibility of the taxpayer.

And while we are blithely asked to accept this burden, one which may well exceed the $700B proposed, we will continue to hear, as we've heard for far too long, that there is no money for healthcare, no money for alternative energy, no money for our crumbling infrastructure.

The American people have been bilked out of countless billions to support and "rebuild" Iraq. Now we're asked for hundreds of billions to make the losses incurred through private business failure and fraud disappear.

Just think what a difference a trillion dollars would make if we had leadership with the guts to actually invest in our own country and our own people, instead of the corporations and rich that have controlled our government for far too long.

I urge you to vote against any bailout proposal that does not contain strong measures of oversight, accountability, and transparency.

[chemp]

3. excellent letter

with your permission I will send it along to Senators Reed & Whitehouse.

[Nordmadr]

4. That is fine with me. N/T