Can our lawmakers hear us?
Apparently not. Because if they were listening to us, we would not be in this financial crisis right now.
We, the people, have been crying and begging for jobs, for lower gas prices, for help funding our education and funding our kids' education, for help starting small businesses, and for help saving ourselves from bankruptcy, or our homes from foreclosure. Yet they haven't heard and haven't responded for years!!!
We are angry as Hell and we're tired of the disconnect between our lawmakers in DC--living high on the hog of our sweat and tears--while our floor is crashing below us.
We're pissed off, and come Hell or high water, you will hear us!
Now, those same people who have destroyed us, sponged us for every penny in our wallet, and have abandoned us are asking for us to save their rich hineys and save their jobs so that they can continue to soak us for more.
I'm mad as Hell, and so are a lot of people I know.
I've tried to call Congress to tell them my opinion, but guess what happens? The phone is ringing but nobody answers. It's a literal representation of some philosophical analogy of what they've been doing anyways. Tone deaf. They have been tone deaf for years. But they will be tone deaf no more!
Listen up Congress. Listen up candidates. And listen well.
We're pissed off, and come Hell or high water, you will hear us!
We want more than our money thrown to the same lame-brain, corrupt big business CEO's and their corporate empires. We know that trickle-down economics, sending jobs overseas, and giving tax payer handouts to big corporations is not going to work. Been there- done that.
Right now we need a multi-tiered approach to this conundrum you've put us in. Here's a list to help you get started:
- It goes without saying that we need jobs. But we need to start taxing those big corporations who have exported our jobs to slave labor overseas and then re-imported those products into our country with little or no taxes.
- We need to give money to the 1-2% of the people facing immediate foreclosure or bankruptcy.
3. We need to give money to people who are part of our infrastructure, growing food, trucking food, fixing roads, and make sure we keep them in jobs too.
- We need to tax the oil empires who have bled this economy to death and whose own greed probably led to this situation. It's costing me triple to get to work compared to what it use to. So for the truckers in our country who are now paying more for gas to feed us, drilling is not going to help them. Give them a break already! Enforce some regulatory measures with the greedy Exxon-Mobiles!
- We need to fund small business loans NOW. So that we can get people back to work NOW.
- We need to fund scholarships for education. And we need to provide money for our educational system so that we can create a society where ingenuity, science, and manufacturing can flourish!
- We need to regulate our financial institutions and we need to help the people lower down the food chain who were victims of predatory lending.
- We need to evaluate how much of our money is spent and we need to budget our national budget and stop spending like drunken sailors. We need to stop funding the Iraq Occupation and quit pretending we're the richest nation in the land. We're not. China owns us now! And our dollar is worthless!
- We need to rescind the Bankruptcy Bill that blamed the little guy for poor choices, while the lawmakers and the rich lawmakers in DC allowed the Phil Grahams and the Rick Davis's to crash our financial institutions and our security! We need lobbyist and people like them out of our government.
- We need universal health care so that businesses, both large and small, can once again flourish in this country.
I'm sure there's a lot more you can add to my list.
You're pissed off, and come Hell or high water, together, we can make them hear us!.
Speak up.
Then hop off the blog and call Washington. Contact your local papers and local media. Stand on a street corner and ask your neighbors to join you. Congress may end their session today, and return home to their local districts--if they're brave enough. If so, then arrange local Town Halls, or park yourself outside their office and make them hear you.
But one way or another, we have to fix that disconnect between lawmakers and the taxpayers. They may not have heard us before, but now that their jobs are on the line and their financial security is on the line too, they may be willing to clear out their earwax.
Let's roll!