Forgive the interruption...
...from the inspiration.
But, I feel compelled to "rally the troops" if there are any interested in being rallied.
The world as we know it could very well change forever if this disastrous mortgage bailout goes through. And it's looking like it will, without so much as a fight. This plan is an affront to all sound free market economic principles and I for one am not willing to stand by and watch it happen without the assurance I tried to do SOMETHING to change it.
It's not right.
It's not honest.
It's not fair.
Contact your representative.
Contact your senator.
There really isn't time to not act.
For your enjoyment, here are my letters sent to my representative (a Democrat who I actually have voted for twice) and my senators (who I am just ITCHING to run against...and if they don't stand up for this, I just might!)
Mr. (fill in the blank):
I am counting on you, Sir, to do the right thing at this critical time in our nation's history. Now is NOT the time to panic and react. We need calm and steady leaders who have the courage to stand up against the wave of disastrous economic decisions that have been made and continue to be made.
I am PLEADING with you not to allow this ridiculous and frightening bailout to go through.
Do the right thing, Mr. X. Demand more accountability from your own party who has helped create this fiasco. Don't allow the Bush Whitehouse to push this burden through to the American people. It's not right. And I think the majority of you are smart enough to know it.
There is a huge opportunity here for you and your colleagues to be the heroes to your constituents. With the "common man" research I've done, I believe that if congress will change the market-to-market accounting law, extending insurance but NOT extending loans, we will be able to see our way out of this. But, if you allow this bailout to go through, we will never recover. I truly believe that. The free market, the capitalist principles this country was founded on, will cease to exist as we know it.
If you vote for this bailout, if you participate in forcing this burden on the taxpayers, I will do all I can to ensure your defeat in your next election season.
Please be the man and leader I believe you are and PROTECT US from this disastrous plan.
(Ah, that felt good. We now return to our regular blogging...)
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Hey Laurel -
Take a look at this post
http://adailyscoop.blogspot.com/2008/09/ode-to-chicken-little.html
There is a democrat elected in Utah? I am beside myself with shock! Well, I guess you are living in SLC though... :)
Well, for whatever it was worth, I wrote the three schlubs that represent me here in the middle of nowhere. Our congressman tends to just go along with his leader (DoNothing Nancy) and the Senators, well, one is an idiot and the other is retiring at the end of this year, so I have no idea what anyone of them will do. They've all be strangely quiet this week....grr!
Anyway, I feel like this is going to happen, even though it's totally unconstituttional, so I asked that they at least put some susnsets in this, and to not give a blank check to the treasury dept.
And I have to wonder, where was the government while AIG and the rest were getting "too big to fail". I mean, what about all of that nifty anti-trust legislation we have on the books from the days of TR and his trustbusting days, although Wm Howard Taft was more of a trust buster than TR ever was.
Ok, I'm rambleing....must stop. Oh and I joined your facebook group. :)
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