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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:40 AM
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Letter to my Senators and Representative Opinions wanted.
Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 09:55 AM by SoutherDem
I am going to AGAIN write my elected officials, all Republican.
Before I send it I wanted some thoughts so I will paste it below.

You won! Or, at least as Mr. Boehner said you got 98% of what you wanted. You listened to the right-wing fanatics of your party and ignored the American people. Poll after poll stated the American people wanted the corporate welfare to end, such as that given to oil companies making billions in profits. Those polls also stated that the American people wanted to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. After President Obama asked the American people to contact Senators and Representatives phone lines were jammed and servers crashed. You totally ignored the American people in favor for the most wealthy, but that is no surprise, your average voter can’t afford to make the donations the corporations and wealthy 2% can make. You showed who you care about and it wasn’t people like me. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LOST!!!
Since you got your 98% for the 2% you care about, the stock market has dropped and S&P has dropped our countries credit rating. I know you say the corporations and wealthy create the jobs, if that was the only factor in job creation the Bush tax cuts would have generated tens of millions of jobs instead of the 3 million as reported by The Wall Street Journal, far less than that of Clinton’s 23.1 million.
Isn’t it time to do the right thing and start thinking about those who can only give you one vote instead of those who can give you thousands of dollars and fix the problems you and your party has caused quit blaming the people who inherited your problems.
Please don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind shared sacrifice but not if you continue to protect the wealthy and multi-billion dollar profit corporations while hurting the middle and lower class.
Unfortunately, I don’t see much hope. If you and your fellow Republicans do as I expect you will first blame Obama and the Democrats for not giving in the last 2% claiming that this caused the drop in the stock market and the credit rating decrease. Then you will raise the retirement age, cut medicare, medicaid and other things which help the elderly and poor because we are in crises. And, to stimulate job creation you will then give a tax credits to the billion dollar profit corporations tax cuts to those who make a $1M or more.


Should I take something out? Should I add something?

Edited for spelling.
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:43 AM
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1. I like it, But instead of Your won! I would use You won!
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:53 AM
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3. Thanks spell check missed that.
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:48 AM
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2. Depends on what you want to accomplish...
Edited on Sat Aug-06-11 09:48 AM by brooklynite
If all you want to do is vent your anger, then this is fine. If you actually want to try to influence future decision-making.....
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:54 AM
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5. Sadly vent because ...
my AGAIN means I have written to the three many times without any replies and those were not venting but attempting to influence.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:58 AM
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7. I agree.
The tone of the letter makes it likely that it will just go immediately into the trash.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:54 AM
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4. I used a letter from my rep and took it apart piece by piece
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:09 PM
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8. and you did one hell of a job!
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:18 PM
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9. ................
:hi:
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 08:03 PM
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15. Thanks.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 09:55 AM
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6. Well, it's a decent rant, but unlikely to be read by the people
you're writing to. Since you neither ask a question nor suggest any specific action, it's the type of letter that just gets filed without anyone really bothering to read it.

Anyhow, the very first word should be "You" instead of "Your."
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 08:02 PM
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14. Thanks, I did change the you to your, but I am also doing other revisions
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southernyankeebelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:18 PM
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10. Nice. But they don't listen and they don't care. I have written and called
and told them pretty much of what you said but they don't care. Of course if you were a Koch brother they'd care.
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 08:01 PM
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13. It is obvious they don't care, I didn't include $$$$$$$$
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 12:58 PM
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11. Righteous rant, but...
Pick one issue and stick with it.

I used to send "I have a couple of concerns" letters and Rokita would pick the low-hanging fruit and ignore the hardballs.

Now it's one topic per letter.
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SoutherDem Donating Member (317 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 08:00 PM
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12. Good suggestions, I am revising anyway, so I will break it into multiple letters.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 08:10 PM
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16. I would add the actual quote from the S&P article citing
the republican refusal to raise revenue ffor the downgrade.
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