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So our friend Jason in the House has managed to fix the proofreading marks, but maybe those could have helped refine the language used in my latest letter.
The term "so-called stimulus bill" seems so much like a scorned 14 year old girl writing a nasty letter to her ex-boyfriend. Call me picky, but I'd like a bit more professional conduct from my representative.
His "reasons" were the typical press sound-bites that we heard from the conservative media, all of which were quite counter to the truth of how this bill came about.
"The pork-laden non-stimulus bill was finalized under cloak of darkness, just before midnight last night. Members of Congress had less than 12 hours to review over 1,200 pages of federal government largesse before voting on it today. The bill is symbolic of the Democratic Party's broken promises with the American people. It is not at all representative of the "change" promised by the new Administration."
Really Jason? That's the story we're going to stick with? You are saying that reinvesting in our nation is not change?
His reasons go on, starting with the big fear-factor of how big the deficit currently is (as if that is a determining factor of how we need to change our country, why don't we just give up?), and states that the bill spends too much on welfare. I suppose we're just supposed to wait for the billionaires to give money to the poor and unemployed? That's been working so far, hasn't it?
Read for yourself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll question why he asked Rush Limbaugh to write this for him.
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