My note to my congressman about the bailout

[Razmear]

DO NOT SUPPORT THE BAILOUT!!!

I'm just adding one more voice in the wind against this $700 Billion bailout.

Let the mortgage companies fail and new stronger and smarter companies will rise from the ashes. This is how capitalism and natural selection works.
By continuing to reward mistakes you only encourage more mismanagement in the future.
If you let the mortgage companies crash, housing prices will drop, and citizens will again be able to afford houses.
Yes it will sting for a while, but sometime you just have to rip off that old bandaid so the real healing can begin.

Respectfully,
Eric Burke
Anderson, SC


You can contact yours at:
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Please do it NOW!

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[Deborah K]

Good letter. Don't forget to call too! Tying up their phone lines puts them in a tizzy! When all the aides have time for is answering the phone lines, it gets back to the rep with more impact. Emails, faxes, petitions - all good - all necessary - but too easy to dismiss. Visits and phone calls are "in your face".

[TastyWheat]

Emails are fine, but phone calls and faxes are better (it's too late for snail mail). Tie up their lines and waste their paper, don't give them something that can be filtered out by a computer. Make sure they or their secretaries have to sort through this manually.

FaxZero.com, FreeFax.com, and FreeFaxButton.com offer free faxes. If you have a modem you should be able to send faxes with your computer but I really know nothing about that.

[mello]

Here the email that I sent:

I oppose the proposed bailout plan because paying off bad debt with more
debt is obviously monumentally stupid. I didn't pay off my credit card
debt with more credit cards!!! I spent two years living lean to pay it
off. I didn't buy a house with no money down, why should I & millions of
other responsible taxpayers be forced to pay for their bad decisions. This
bailout does not fix the problem but just piles on more debt that will
destroy the value of our currency. The value of the dollar is worth 2¢
when you compare it to the dollar of 1913, the year the Fed was created.

Wall Street paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves in 2007 for
running their companies into the ground. Why not take that money instead?
We have over 760 military bases on foreign soil that costs us one trillion
per year. Over 80 in Italy alone! Why don't you make some cuts there! The
bad debt needs to be wiped clean. It will be a hard year or two but if you
vote yes, we will have 5 to 10+ years of hardship.

If you vote YES for this bailout, my vote for your reelection will be NO!

[runningdiz]

Working on mine will send it out later... Good letters everyone!

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

Just used FaxZero to send this:

Senator Coleman,

Do not use MY money to bail out businesses that have made bad decision. This mess was caused by government meddling in the first place; more government meddling will prolong the problem. Get out of the way and let the market work. Yes, we will have to pay the piper now. But it will hurt less if we get it over with.

Besides all that, you do not have my permission to take MY money for this purpose. And the Constitution doesn't give you that right. You swore an oath.

As a Republican, I am having a hard time making up my mind about how I will vote in November. I'll let you make that decision for me now.

Sincerely,
Scribbler de Stebbing
Excelsior MN

I'll probably get booted as a delegate for not blindly promising to vote R-Socialism.