Hi.
I just wrote an LTE to my local paper using this web page.
http://www.democrats.org/...
It listed papers in my area.
It was fun easy and sort of neat.
Read below the fold. Please.
For decades the Republican party has been crowing about how Government is bad, regulation of Private Industry is bad, taxes are bad and how unconditional support of private Industry is the only thing that makes economic sense.
We have seen this week how naive that misguided view has always been.
The strongest supporters of the so called free market system have always been those who have the most to gain from it.
People like President Bush and John McCain argue that the 'system' can regulate itself, and that it's unfair to burden industry will oversight and regulations.
The notion that we should tax corporations according to the amount of money they make on the back of the American people is derided as "Socialist."
So, after decades of whining and complaining about how hard it is to run a milti-billion dollar corporation with the Government breathing down one's neck the Republicans essentially killed all regulation of the banking and financial services industries. The Free Market Utopia was on it's way. Millionaires and Billionaires could keep the hard "earned" cash while the people who work for them and use their products could fend for themselves.
Government is bad according to John McCain and his Republican allies. The Free market can do things better they claim.
Well, this week we saw what the free market can do. All of the supporters of unregulated business came crying to the American people begging for a hand-out. They claim that on one could have possible seen that their greed lies and corruption would lead to failure. It's up to the American tax payer to bail them out for their miss deeds. Somehow it would be our fault if they failed. I agree with them on one point: It is our fault that we have elected the cronies of these crooks for so long. John McCain and his staff of lobbyists think they can dupe us into blaming a few scape goats and then let them carry on looting the national coffers.
There is one thing we can do to stop this nonsense. We can vote for Democratic candidates this year. Vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Vote for your Democratic Senator and Congress people. the Democrats will put the power of the purse back in the hands of the American people. The Democrats won't let our banks squander all of our hard earned money and then let them come back asking for more when they loose it.
This financial crisis is a crisis of a failed system and a failed philosophy. Please don't the proponents of that philosophy continue to rip off the people of this great nation.
When you go to vote this year, please think about this: Why when a bank makes mistakes that cost us billions of dollars is it imperative that we bail them out, but when a family looses its home it's just tough luck?
Why is it considered an injustice by the Republican party for a millionaire to have to pay taxes, but when a young child can't afford shoes to go to school and her family wants help, it's just "common sense"?
Vote Democratic. Stop the stupidity, the corruption and the greed.