I want to write my congress critters but I know that I am really too mad to do it justice. I have two dems and one outgoing rethug and one to come in rethug. So you can see already I am not well disposed to think kindly of the latter two. And I am disappointed in the other senator who waffles back and forth from progressive to blue dog like a blinking light.
I did find a list of fax numbers. If you don't want to march, you don't want to build tumbrels, please write call or fax our congresscritters. How to contact congresscritters courtesy of CONSERVATIVES!
Please help me to be somewhat diplomatic.
Thanks
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To:
Senator Bond
Senator Elect Blunt
Senator McCaskill
Congressman Cleaver
Re: Economy
Summary –
- Save the middle class. End the class warfare on the middle and lower classes that is evidenced by the migration of wealth to the upper 2-5%, the obscene 400-500 to 1 ratio between CEOs and workers. Don’t cut Social Security now. It would be far better if you lowered the age of SS acceptance for a least a couple of years because of all the age discrimination that is now taking place due to the high unemployment. And I can prove that there was age discrimination prior to the meltdown and I can guarantee you that you haven’t done diddly to change that.
- Instead, tax the upper 20% of wealth not the lower 80% as much because you need us to spend spend spend to get the economy revved. Tax corporations. The biggest lie is that we overtax corporations in this country. The truth is that we have some who get tax benefits and don’t pay anything back. Too often they are allowed to offshore their wealth, outsource the workforce, and defraud the government in contracts without enough of a penalty to stop any of those practices. And that is your fault!
- The upper crust are saving their bucks along with the mega corporations and even those banks we bailed out and all of them need to give some back to the communities in which they live and work and the country in which they live and work. We, the people, would like to see those obscene bonuses on Wall Street taxed, but I guess that would be, from your point of view, like shooting yourself in the pocketbook eh? Tax stock transactions and increase the tax on capital gains to match regular tax tiers. That way you will eliminate the obscenity of the wealthy tycoon only getting taxed 15% while his secretary gets taxed at a higher rate even though he/she only has a 5 figure income and it can discourage some of the short selling. Stop with the freeze on the federal employees. I don’t see you big millionaires freezing or taking a cut so why should people who might actually SPEND something to keep the economy afloat take a hit? And, pass unemployment benefit extensions. This works to make sure our economy doesn’t sink like a stone.
- Stop the wars. For years you have put the burden of these wars onto our children and our children’s children and haven’t the grace to acknowledge the damage that you have done to the US and to the world. We already spend more on our "defense" than all the rest of the world’s defense spending combined. Enough!
- Repealing the Health Care Reform act will only add to the deficit.
- If you are going to tout yourselves as being deficit hawks, start with yourselves. Eliminate your bonuses, your perks, your bennies. Cut your pensions, cut your health care, cut YOUR salaries.
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Oh, I forgot. Half of you want to bring down the legitimate President of the United States so you can tout your own brand. And you really don’t care about the consequences as proven by your insistence on doing the same things that brought down the economy in the first place: tax cuts which are unpaid for, wars that are unpaid for, and you want to repeal the HCR which will also add to the debt and you want to keep your fat cat friends from having to worry about regulation so that they can start stealing from us again. And you WANT to "PRIVATIZE" social security. Yepper. Those guys on Wall street need you to act as the jewel thief against the middle class so you can fence the newly minted "privatization" boost to Wall street to pad their largess and take what little wealth, what little safety net we have remaining away. But hey, they reward your efforts handsomely don’t they? And the Chamber of Commerce shot in the arm with anonymous buyers of your good will really helped didn’t it? You really got your money’s worth from the SCOTUS for this last decade for sure. Best congress Wall street ever bought.
End the blinking wars, including the idiotic "War on Drugs". Think of all that money you can spend on TSA terrorizing the whole US population and not just the air travelers.
I hear that the catfood commission is scheduled to come up with a report today or tomorrow. And it will have all kinds of "austerity" measures to take care of the "Looming Deficit of DOOOM".
Now look, I know that you all did go to school and some of you even took something like statistics even to get your degree. We have a recession. A recession that was NOT caused by us greedy seniors. Nope, not even close. It was caused by greedy bankers. And what have you done about them? They are getting billions in bonus money. Money you refuse to tax even though it was our tax dollars that made them whole after they crashed the whole dang system.
(crickets........)
No, instead you are going to do what the fat cats with the billion dollar yachts want you to do. Tax us, the 80% that has less than 45% of the wealth. Because all that SS talk is all about taxing us and moving more of our wealth, assuming we have any to the Wall street fat cats. And you will keep on with two horrendous wars or three if you count Pakistan and 4 if you count the equally useless war on drugs which not only has lost but has lead to the Arizona Governor imagining headless bodies on the Arizona sands.
And you want to freeze federal employee’s pay. How about that! How virtuous of you, but, oh wait – not YOUR salaries. Nope, just salaries of people who would spend their money and keep the economy afloat. Same way with the SS cuts. Just making sure there is no middle class are you? You do realize that we, the taxpayers who might still have some money coming in, we pay your salaries? Just like we paid the bankers after they ripped us off? And then we watched the bankers get BILLIONS in BONUS money that you refused to tax to get some of OUR money back. But I forget. We are just minnows and your fat cats are the humpback whales in your eyes.
Maybe you didn’t take math in school after all. After you manage to tick everybody off, who will actually come to the polls to vote for you?
Sincerely,
Grandma Jo